As I’ve got an exciting pivot coming in 2025, I decided to start the year with a bang – including a rather literal one – in the form of a free promotional novella for subscribers to my Substack newsletter!
I got it all ready yesterday and it was distracting me from the next important draft I’m working on, so I decided to just fling it out into the world earlier than I’d planned, so here is Never Want To Sea You Again!!
You can download it for free by signing up to my Substack newsletter and there is a choice of a low-spice version or a spicy version (the one with the bang LOL).
It’s a banter-fuelled forced-proximity romance set on a forty-foot yacht in the Atlantic!

I hope you enjoy your couple of hours of fun with Giovanna and Damir!

Help! I’m stuck on a yacht with a super-hot stranger!
Giovanna
I only wanted to hide for a minute, honestly. I didn’t mean to get stuck in the guest berth and fall asleep and now we’re somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and – actually that’s a cool way to avoid another confrontation with my father. So, I might have been a little economical with the truth when I explained the trouble I was in.
But now I’m in even more trouble. This guy, calls himself Damir, is giving me mafia vibes (but probably I’ve just been reading too many books). He’s hotter than all get-out, used to being in charge and I can’t help provoking him to anger – and yeah, some other stuff. Is it bad if we kiss? More?
Then it turns out he does have a connection to my dad and nobody’s going to like that I’m here.
Damir
I cannot deal with a stowaway right now. I need peace and quiet and the open water to unpack some of the worst months of my life and work out what I’m going to do now. But Giovanna, she’s got a wild tongue and a reckless spirit and every time she opens her mouth I want to kiss her. But she’s running from something and she won’t accept my help.
Out here alone on the water, it’s hard to resist what she does to me. But then I find out who she really is and the impossible position she’s put me in.
Help! How can I get rid of her before she turns my life upside down? Or is that what I secretly want?

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