The Depths of You

She came to the island to disappear.

Cora Fielding has nothing left. After a devastating public betrayal stripped her of her career, her dignity, and every reason to stay, she rents an isolated cottage on a storm-battered rock off the coast of Maine. No phone. No neighbors. No one who knows where she is.

No one except the lighthouse keeper.

He watched her arrive.

Ronan Voss has lived alone in the lighthouse for nine years. Massive, silent, and built like the granite cliff beneath his tower, he communicates through heavy stares and brute physicality. When Cora moves into the cottage below, something cracks open inside him-something dark, obsessive, and patient.

He knows a catastrophic nor'easter is coming. He knows her cottage will flood. He knows the only shelter on the island is his lighthouse, behind an iron door that locks from the inside with a key he wears on a chain against his chest.

He doesn't warn her.

When the storm destroys everything she has, Cora is forced into the tower with a man who controls the food, the fire, and the only exit. The walls are stone. The staircase spirals two hundred and twelve steps into the dark. And the man holding the key has no intention of letting go.

But the most dangerous thing in the lighthouse isn't the locked door.

It's how badly she wants to stop fighting it.