He Married Me Broke and Took My Bed

"Sign the marriage license, or we pull your comatose mother's ICU plug tonight." Forced onto her knees on the Shore family's cold marble floor, Vivian Shore surrenders her pride. To keep her dying mother on life support, she takes her spoiled half-sister's place in an arranged sham marriage to Lighthouse Harbor's most notorious pariah: Garrett Voss, a disgraced, bankrupt sailor rumored to have wrecked an official patrol fleet. Stripped of her appraisal career, Vivian is banished to a derelict harbor loft with a single squeaking iron cot and a rusted shower. But the savage deckhand who drags her home is no broken beggar. Beneath his grease-stained shirts and lethal silence lies an unyielding predator who claims her space, shares his bread in the shadows, and watches her with molten intent. When a seven-figure emergency wire transfer anonymously clears her mother's medical debts, Vivian realizes the terrifying truth. The surly brute taking half her mattress every night didn't lose everything at sea—he bought the entire coastline, and he has no intention of ever letting his substitute bride escape.