She buried her name to survive. The past just found the grave.

Two years ago, Sloane Calloway stopped existing. In her place: Ivy Marsh, a quiet restorer of old houses who keeps to herself in the fog-wrapped harbor town of Cape Alder. Ivy doesn't get too close to anyone. She doesn't sleep with her curtains open. And she never, ever talks about the testimony that put away the men who run the Halworth shipping syndicate — the men who are, as of six weeks ago, no longer behind bars.

Ivy came to Cape Alder to disappear into ordinary life: strip old paint, rebuild a widow's walk, watch the tide come in. She did not come here to fall for the town's off-duty harbor patrol officer, a man with quiet hands, a guarded jaw, and a habit of noticing exactly the things she's trying to hide — like the way she flinches at black SUVs, or the go-bag she keeps by the door.

Caleb Voss lost the last person he tried to protect. He's not looking to make that mistake twice. But when a stranger starts asking questions about the woman renovating the old Ashford house, and a body washes up in the marina with Ivy's real name written on a slip of paper in his pocket, Caleb realizes the woman he's falling for isn't who Cape Alder thinks she is — and that whoever is hunting her isn't going to stop at watching from the tree line.

As the syndicate closes in and the town's secrets tangle with Ivy's own, she and Caleb have to decide how much truth trust can survive — before the past finishes what it started two years ago.

Fast-paced, twisty, and simmering with tension from the first page to the final confrontation, Reveal is a slow-burn, high-heat standalone for readers who like their romance dangerous and their heroines anything but helpless.

Tropes: Hidden Identity, Small-Town Suspense, Wounded Heroine, Protector Hero, Who-Can-She-Trust, Slow Burn to High Heat