Salt on Her Knuckles

About this book

At forty-two, Sabine Ortega has traded false passports and assassination contracts for predawn ovens, laminated dough, and a bakery in Breaker Point, a weather-beaten town on California’s Mendocino coast. Keeping her hands busy is easy. Letting anyone close is not—especially Niko Bellandi, the infuriatingly perceptive boatwright whose touch awakens appetites she thought she had buried. When violence from Sabine’s former life reaches the bakery, her carefully separated identities begin to collapse. A tenacious local reporter uncovers a connection between a predatory harbor development and Sabine’s old employers, while a former handler arrives carrying motives she cannot trust. Protecting her new home will demand lethal skills, radical honesty, and an intimacy far more dangerous than desire. Sensual, suspenseful, and morally charged, Salt on Her Knuckles is an erotic thriller about whether a person trained to destroy can learn to build a life without disguising what it cost.

Book details

Genres:

Erotic thriller, Romantic suspense, Crime fiction, Contemporary erotic romance

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-11

Content rating:

R for explicit consensual sexual content, strong language, graphic violence, torture, trauma, and morally complex adult themes