She was sent to end his career. Then she forgot her own name—and fell in love with the man she was supposed to destroy.
Josephine “Josie” Kwan is a corporate efficiency consultant who has built her entire life on metrics, precision, and the cold comfort of being indispensable. When her firm sends her aboard the Celestial Horizon to evaluate its beloved captain for termination, Josie arrives armed with spreadsheets and zero sentimentality. Captain Theodore “Theo” Ashford is everything she’s not: warmhearted, fiercely loyal to his crew, and the kind of man who writes poetry when he thinks no one is watching.
Then a slip on a rain-slicked deck changes everything. Josie hits her head and wakes with no memory of who she is, why she’s on this ship, or the evaluation that could end Theo’s career. And Theo—guilt-stricken, terrified, and already falling—makes a choice he can’t take back: he doesn’t tell her. Not about the report. Not about the corporate executioner sleeping in his quarters. Not about the fact that the woman reading his poetry in the margins, the woman making him feel seen for the first time in years, was sent to fire him.
What follows is an intimate, sun-drenched slow burn at sea—shared breakfasts, whispered confessions, a growing tenderness neither of them planned for—all built on a lie that’s ticking like a time bomb. Because Josie’s memory is coming back. Her laptop still has the cached evaluation. And the corporation that sent her isn’t waiting patiently.
When the truth detonates—her identity, his deception, and the corporate conspiracy behind them both—Josie must decide what kind of woman she wants to be: the one who submits the report, or the one who burns her career to the ground and exposes the people who weaponized her in the first place. And Theo must decide if love built on a guilty conscience can survive the unforgiving daylight of honesty.
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