Shore Leave

Kate Marlow knows how to keep a room under control.

As events lead at Portsmouth's historic dockyard, she can handle leaning ice sculptures, nervous donors, misplaced auction folders and three hundred guests with a microphone waiting. What she cannot handle quite so neatly is Jack Garrett: retired naval commander, inconveniently observant, and far too good at seeing the parts of her life she prefers to keep disciplined.

Their first meeting should have been a brief interruption during a Trafalgar Night gala. Instead, it becomes the start of something neither of them is prepared to dismiss.

For photographer Natalie, the same evening opens a different door. A cigarette in the harbour air, a private look from Isla, and the warmth of musician Leo leave her facing a truth she has been avoiding: attraction does not always arrive in a shape that makes life simple.

Across dockyards, boats, rehearsal rooms, late-night flats and winter harbour lights, Kate, Jack, Natalie, Isla and Leo are drawn into relationships that demand honesty before comfort. Desire is easy to recognise. Trust is harder. Choosing someone, and being chosen in return, may be the bravest risk of all.

Shore Leave is a sensual adult romance about mature attraction, second chances, complicated love, smoky chemistry and the private decisions that turn strangers into home.

Intended for adult readers.

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