No Safe Harbor (en Inglés) - hope smith

One photograph was never supposed to cost this much.

Iris Hale takes the job on the Asteria for the money - three weeks photographing the world’s most private superyacht, its glittering guests, its impossibly handsome owner. She’s told, in no uncertain terms, to photograph the sea, not the crew. It should be simple. It should be safe.

Then, on a quiet night chasing harbor lights through her lens, Iris photographs something no one was ever meant to see: Damian Cross, murdering a man in cold blood on the yacht’s restricted lower deck - and looking up, straight into her camera, as he does it.

Now the only proof of what happened is hidden on a memory card sewn into the lining of her bag, and the only thing standing between Iris and the men hunting her is Niko Arvanis - the enforcer Damian sent to bring her back.

Except Niko doesn’t bring her back.

He’s spent six years paying a debt that was never his, doing the things Damian Cross didn’t want his own hands dirtied with. He knows exactly what happens to people who see too much. And when he looks at Iris - terrified, defiant, refusing to beg - something in him breaks free for the first time in six years.

Together, they run.

Across storm-lashed open water, through hidden island channels, into the fragile safety of a stolen night and a stolen kiss, Iris and Niko build something neither of them expected to survive long enough to feel: trust. Tenderness. A love that asks nothing except to be chosen. But Damian Cross does not lose things quietly, and as the walls close in, Iris and Niko will have to decide how much of themselves they’re willing to give up so that the truth - and each other - might actually survive.

Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

Some harbors were never meant to be safe.

And some love stories are worth everything it costs to tell them.

NO SAFE HARBOR is a slow-burn, emotionally cinematic romantic suspense novel set against the glittering, dangerous backdrop of the Aegean and the French Riviera - for readers who love morally complex heroes, fiercely capable heroines, open-water tension, and a love story that leaves its mark long after the final page.