Caged by the Storm

She came to the island to fix a broken manuscript. He'd been watching her for sixty-three days.When a Category 5 hurricane barrels toward a remote Gulf Coast island, Sienna Croft's only plan is to evacuate. But her car won't start. The bridge is closed. The cell towers are dead. And the only person left on the island is Vaughn—the massive, silent caretaker who's been preparing for this storm longer than anyone knows.He doesn't evacuate. He doesn't panic. He carries her through the flooding rain to a bunker he built beneath his house—a sealed, windowless fortress stocked with enough supplies for two. For thirty days.He controls the food. The water. The light. The heat. Everything she needs to survive flows through one man's hands.In total darkness, with a hurricane tearing the world apart above them, Sienna's independence is stripped away layer by layer. She trades her autonomy for warmth. Her pride for a meal. Her resistance for the only body that can keep her alive.But when the eye passes and she walks the devastated island, she discovers something that changes everything—her car didn't break down. It was sabotaged. The distributor cap was cut before the storm ever hit.He didn't just survive the hurricane with her. He engineered it.Now Sienna faces the only question that matters: a Coast Guard helicopter crosses the sky, a flare gun sits in her hand, and rescue is one trigger pull away. The door is open. The cage is warm. And the man who trapped her is the same man who kept her alive.She has a choice.The door was open. She threw away the key.