the Pineapple Meridian:: Book Two Waiola Refuge Series: Where corporate power meets island serenity, trust is only currency that matters.

On the sun-drenched shores of Maui, Maximilian Konstantin has finally found a sanctuary. After years of navigating the cutthroat corridors of global finance, his life with Juliet Sinclair amidst their pineapple plantation and monk seal refuge feels like a dream he doesn't want to wake up from. But dreams are fragile things when billions are at stake. When Maximilian's estranged brother, Aleksander, arrives with a scheme to dismantle the family trust and force a high-stakes pharmaceutical merger, the walls of their tropical paradise begin to close in. The discovery of a hidden non-disclosure agreement buried in Juliet's research grant turns their domestic bliss into a legal minefield. Even worse, Juliet is harboring a secret of her own: a private draft of an article that could either save her sanctuary or destroy Maximilian's reputation forever. As leaked photographs and compromised data spark a wildfire of suspicion, Maximilian and Juliet must confront the one thing more dangerous than corporate espionage-the fear that they never truly knew each other at all. To protect their future, they must travel from the volcanic slopes of Hawaii to the stone-cold boardrooms of Edinburgh to prove that love is the only merger worth fighting for.