Wild Prospects

I get stranded with my office crush, follow a monkey, and start a survival romance.

Santi Reyes is quiet in the dangerous way, the kind of man who notices everything I try to hide. I have spent eighteen months being professional around him, which is hilarious, because apparently the Venezuelan jungle has other plans.

One minute, our guide vanishes on a corporate retreat. The next, a storm splits the trail and I am alone with Santi, no signal, no path, and one opinionated howler monkey leading us deeper into the canopy.

He catches me on wet rock like it means nothing. He builds shelter in the rain like he was made for crisis, then asks the questions I have been avoiding for years.

By the fire, I stop pretending this is adrenaline. By the lagoon, I realize I have fallen.

Then the truth hits hard.

Santi’s old risk report may be tied to the people who took our guide.

And falling for him might lead us straight to them.

Tropes: Forced proximity, survival romance, corporate retreat gone feral, getting lost together, quiet competence heroine, man who watches before he moves, slow burn ignited by crisis.