Deep End of Summer

Dr. Mara Collins has built a careful life at Mermaid Cove - tide pools at dawn, research that actually matters, and a heart she keeps well above the waterline. She's been burned before. She doesn't intend to be burned by a man in designer swim trunks who interrupts her fieldwork on a Tuesday morning.Jake Donovan has a tech empire, a charity triathlon with his name on the banner, and one secret he's never said out loud: he can't swim. When his nephew signs them up as a team, the golden boy of Mermaid Cove needs a teacher - and the prickly marine biologist on the beach is the only person he trusts with the truth.It starts as a trade. Her expertise for his funding. Neither of them plans on the way his laugh carries across the water, or how steady her hands are when he's afraid.Then a car accident puts Jake in surgery, and he wakes up knowing everything about his company and nothing about the woman beside his bed.Mara taught him to trust the water once. She'll have to do it all over again - and find out whether what they built runs deeper than memory.A slow-burn contemporary romance about second chances, chosen family, and learning to go under before you can come up for air.