Love By The Cartagena Tide: A Departure Lounge Romance Novel

Audrey Herrick runs a small agency that sends women to the one place on earth that will do to them exactly what needs doing. She has sent clients to Tuscan kitchens and Lisbon balconies and Kyoto gardens. She had never, before Vivian, sent one to a sinking research station to fall in love with a coral. (The man was a separate development. So was the dog.)Vivian Park sold her company for an amount of money with a comma in a place most amounts of money do not have one, and felt absolutely nothing. The reset trip to the Colombian coast was supposed to switch the instrument back on. A broken-down boat had other ideas, and left her stranded on a tiny marine station with no signal, three strangers, a station dog who answers to no one, a coffee can the resident scientist insists is a filing system, and a five-hundred-year-old coral named GLORIA sitting directly in the path of a port dredge.Andrés Mejia is everything her spreadsheets warn against: a brilliant, broke, deadline-missing marine biologist who refuses, on principle, to put a price on the one thing he loves. Vivian prices everything. They agree on nothing, share one working shower's worth of patience, and have exactly four weeks before a dredge, a grant deadline, and a billion-dollar offer from Vivian's old life all come due on the very same afternoon.She came to Colombia to feel nothing. She is about to feel everything, in a language she did not know she spoke.A slow-burn, opposites-attract vacation romance about coral, capital, mothers, and the things that have no secondary market. Fall in love with Cartagena, with an island that refuses to be bought, and with a woman learning that the only worth that counts is the kind you cannot put in a slide.The Departure Lounge: every love story starts with a destination.Each book in The Departure Lounge is a complete standalone romance with a guaranteed happily ever after. Read them in any order.