The Barista

"Completely pulled me in after just a few pages."

"I could NOT put it down."

Peyton Merritt came to Florida to disappear.

After leaving behind a life in New York that nearly broke her, she wanted quiet: a coffee shop near the Gulf, blueprints she could control, and a future small enough to feel safe.

Then Aidan Beckford walked through her door.

Powerful, dangerous, and impossible to ignore, Aidan belongs to a world Peyton should never touch: old money, private islands, organized crime, and family wars that do not end cleanly.

When violence reaches her doorstep, Peyton is pulled into the Beckford empire and forced to decide how much of herself she is willing to risk for a man who may be the most dangerous thing in her life.

From Florida's Gulf Coast to Jamaica and Ibiza, The Barista blends dark romantic suspense, coastal noir atmosphere, and organized-crime thriller tension into a story of love, loyalty, blood, and consequence.

For readers who love romantic suspense, dangerous family empires, private islands, old money with blood underneath it, and crime thrillers that move fast.

Coffee. Blood. Empire.