HIS ADDICTIVE TOUCH RUINED MY SELF CONTRO

HIS ADDICTIVE TOUCH RUINED MY SELF-CONTROL

Christian Delacroix has spent years perfecting the art of control. As one of Europe's most respected antiquities conservators, he has built his life around ancient manuscripts, priceless artifacts, and the quiet certainty of history. Emotion, passion, and romantic entanglements have no place in his carefully ordered world.

Then Captain Sebastian Thorne walks into his life.

Charismatic, wealthy, fearless, and irresistibly seductive, Sebastian commands The Sovereign Siren, a magnificent research yacht dedicated to exploring the hidden ruins of the Mediterranean. When he brings Christian a spectacular Roman astrolabe recovered from a forgotten shipwreck, the two men are drawn into an extraordinary archaeological mystery involving lost astronomical knowledge, ancient manuscripts, submerged temples, and treasures buried beneath centuries of Mediterranean waters.

But the greatest discovery may not be hidden inside the wreckage.

From Portofino and Monaco to Corsica, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Venice, Christian joins Sebastian aboard The Sovereign Siren on a breathtaking journey through some of the world's most legendary maritime landscapes. As they uncover secrets connected to the Roman Empire, forgotten civilizations, and lost navigational knowledge, their professional partnership gradually becomes something far more dangerous—and far more irresistible.

Sebastian's confidence challenges everything Christian believes about restraint. His touch awakens desires Christian has spent years suppressing, forcing the brilliant conservator to confront a truth he can no longer analyze away: sometimes the greatest risk is not losing control, but never allowing yourself to feel.

Yet their discoveries attract powerful interests willing to steal, manipulate, and destroy to possess the secrets hidden beneath the sea.

With ancient mysteries closing around them and their passion growing stronger with every voyage, Christian and Sebastian must decide what they are willing to risk—for history, for freedom, and for the love that has transformed them both.

Across the Mediterranean, beneath ancient stars and beside forgotten ruins, two men will discover that some treasures are meant to be preserved...

and others are meant to be surrendered to completely.