Poisoned Love, Calculated Death

From the back cover

The yacht' s engine faded, leaving me stranded on a desolate island.

My fiancé, Liam, and my adoptive sister, Brittany, had promised a celebratory pre-wedding adventure, but they left me there to die.

For ten agonizing days, the emergency beacon on the smartwatch Liam gave me, supposedly a symbol of his protection, blinked unseen.

He ignored my desperate signal, the battery dying, my hope dwindling with each passing hour.

My leg was shattered, twisted at an unnatural angle from a wild boar attack, leaving me crippled and starving, death a patient shadow.

Then, a man emerged from the jungle, a rugged survivalist named Jax, who became my savior, tending my wounds and feeding me.

I fell for him, hard and fast, believing fate had replaced a false love with a real one.

One night, the pulsing light of a satellite phone deep in the jungle shattered that illusion.

I crawled to his hidden bunker, and heard Jax–whose real name was Jason Cole–reporting to Brittany, confirming my worst fears.

"I need to stay here to ensure she doesn' t escape and challenge the heiress for her inheritance," he said, his voice cold and professional.

Brittany' s chilling reply echoed through the night: "Just make sure it' s clean. No traces. The island will take care of the rest."

My savior was my jailer, every kind gesture a calculated lie, every moment a performance.

He was poisoning my wound, making sure the island would be blamed for my slow, agonizing death.

But I wasn't just a victim; I was an architect, and I could build a storm.

Sneaking into his high-tech bunker, I manipulated satellite weather data, designing a phantom hurricane aimed directly at the island.

My fabricated storm was my only ticket off this island, but first, I had to survive the real monster trapped with me.