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The Santiago brothers are ruthless in pursuing justice and the hearts of the women they love.



TROPES

✅ Enemies to lovers

✅ Forced proximity

✅ Opposites attract

✅ Grumpy/sunshine (gender-flipped)

✅ Hero with a lie

A vandalized research site. A tiger cub left as a warning. And the federal agent Lex Barber has every reason not to trust.



Wildlife biologist Dr. Alexis “Lex” Barber has spent her life protecting the Everglades from the people who see the wild as something to exploit. She’s fought poachers, politics, and powerful conservation players who would rather silence her research than protect the fragile ecosystem she calls home.

So when her remote camera is destroyed, a rare macaw appears in her research zone, and two Bengal tiger cubs are dumped in the swamp, Lex knows this isn’t random.

It’s a message.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Agent Diego Perrera is sent to contain the situation, smooth things over, and keep the problem quiet. Lex is determined to drag the truth into the open.

But Diego is hiding the one secret that could make her hate him.

He was the reason her grant was denied.

Lex already has every reason to distrust federal agencies that dismiss her warnings and underestimate her work. Diego knows she’ll never forgive him if she discovers he helped derail the funding she needed to protect her crocodiles. But as sabotage escalates and evidence points to an illegal animal trade with powerful protectors, walking away becomes impossible.

Someone is using Lex’s research grounds as a warning ground.

And the human predator behind it is getting bolder.

Forced together in the dangerous beauty of the Everglades, Lex and Diego follow the trail from dumped animals to black-market buyers, from broken cameras to secrets buried in plain sight. Every clue pulls them deeper into a conspiracy that could destroy Lex’s work, expose Diego’s lie, and put them both in the path of a killer.

Diego hates secrets. His father’s lies shattered his family, and now he’s becoming the kind of man he never wanted to be. But protecting Lex means staying close, keeping quiet, and risking the one thing he wants most—her trust.

Because if Lex learns the truth, she may never forgive him.

And if they can’t uncover who is using her research site as a warning ground, the Everglades may not be the only thing left in ruins.

For readers who love protective heroes, fearless heroines, dangerous secrets, and slow-burn romantic suspense set where the wild can kill as easily as the criminals can.

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