For six months, your billionaire boss has been in love with you.

You just didn’t know it.

Romeo Valentini is thirty-six, six-foot-four, tattooed, filthy-mouthed, ridiculously charming, and the self-made tech billionaire behind Natural Falls’ most luxurious lakeside resort.

He’s also a Brooklyn-born smartass, a surprisingly skilled outdoorsman, possessive as hell, and absolutely fucking gone for you.

There’s just been one problem.

He hasn’t figured out how to make you fall in love with him.

For six months, Romeo has invented excuses to be near you, memorized everything about you, and quietly imagined a future you haven’t even agreed to a first date for.

Then a routine river excursion goes horribly wrong.

A violent storm. Flash flooding. Eight people separated in the Ozark wilderness.

Six make it back.

You and Romeo don’t.

Stranded in Scott Hollow with nothing but your swimsuits, two small backpacks, and whatever survival skills you can remember, you’re forced to depend on each other.

Fortunately, you grew up on the Natural River.

And Romeo? His uncle taught him how to survive in these woods.

Days pass. The storms rage. You find shelter in an old family homestead, learn to live off the land, and settle into a strangely intimate little existence miles from civilization.

No phones. No responsibilities. No interruptions.

Just you, Romeo, and a wilderness that doesn’t give a damn how much money he’s worth.

Meanwhile, your family is frantic, search parties are combing the Ozarks, and the disappearance of a billionaire and his female employee has become a national media circus.

And Romeo?

That man is falling even harder.

There’s just one little problem.

He knows how to get home.

And he’s not telling you.

Because for the first time in six months, he gets to wake up beside the woman he’s been dreaming about. He gets to make you breakfast, keep you warm, make you laugh, and pretend this little life you’ve built together might actually last forever.

Unfortunately, your older sister is coming to find you, his uncle knows these woods better than anyone, and Romeo’s carefully constructed paradise is one discovery away from falling apart.

Your boss is in love. Your family thinks you’re missing. And the only man who knows the way home has absolutely no intention of letting you go.

🌿 Obsessive Romance • Morally Gray Billionaire Boss • Deranged Devoted Swan • Forced Proximity • Wilderness Survival • Secretly in Love • Hidden Escape Route • Primal Romance • Dark Romantic Comedy • Kinktober