STRANDED WITH HER

A Grumpy-Sunshine Sapphic Romance • Rogue Cove Coast Guard Book 1 • by Aurora North

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Pairing: FF
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High
Series: Rogue Cove Coast Guard #1
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Touch Her and Die, Rescue Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family

She’s a rule-following rescue swimmer. She’s the chaotic artist stranded on her island. A storm is coming, and there’s no escape.

Maya Reyes doesn’t do chaos. As the first female Commander of the Rogue Cove Coast Guard station, she lives her life by a strict code: follow the protocol, save the victim, and never let anyone close enough to see the scars. But when a distress call leads her to a decommissioned lighthouse in the middle of a hurricane, she finds a problem she can’t solve with a checklist.

Iris Bellamy is running away. From a failed career, a controlling ex, and a life that felt like it was shrinking. Stranded on Storm’s End Island, she was looking for artistic inspiration. Instead, she gets a category-five storm and a grumpy rescue swimmer who looks at her like she’s a safety hazard in human form.

Trapped together in a crumbling keeper’s cottage with no way out, the tension between them rises faster than the tide. Maya is rigid, protective, and infuriatingly calm. Iris is loud, messy, and desperate to crack Maya’s armor.

But as the storm rages outside, the walls between them start to come down. And when survival turns into something hotter, Maya realizes that protecting her heart might be the most dangerous mission of her life.

The protocol didn’t cover this. Nothing in the manual covered this.

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⚠️ Content Warning

This book contains explicit FF sexual content including multiple intimate scenes. Additional content includes: survivor’s guilt, grief processing, references to a partner’s death (off-page, prior to story), emotional abuse recovery (toxic ex relationship), panic attacks, and discussion of workplace danger/injury. All relationships are fully consensual between adults.

Reader discretion advised. This book is intended for mature audiences only.

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The water in the training pool was exactly sixty-eight degrees.

Maya Reyes knew this because she’d checked the thermostat three times in the last hour, and because her body had become a finely tuned instrument for measuring discomfort. Sixty-eight degrees was cold enough to shock the system, warm enough to prevent hypothermia during extended drills.

She surfaced from her latest lap, water streaming down her face, and checked her watch. 4:47 AM. Thirteen minutes before she needed to start the day officially. Thirteen minutes of silence, of solitude, of the rhythmic push and pull of her own body through the water.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this book part of a series?

Stranded With Her is Book 1 in the Rogue Cove Coast Guard series and can be read as a complete standalone. Maya and Iris get their full HEA with no cliffhanger. Future books feature other members of the station’s found family.

How spicy is this book?

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat. This is an explicit sapphic romance with multiple intimate scenes. The steam builds through the forced proximity arc before exploding into scorching territory.

Is there a happily ever after?

Yes! Maya and Iris get their HEA. The book ends with an engagement, a dream lighthouse studio, and a future together. No cliffhangers, guaranteed happy ending.