Salt Beneath Skin

Doctor Kiarla Dimini has six weeks to study Saltwake’s waterfront injuries.

She has no intention of wasting them arguing with a ship’s doctor who picks locks with surgical instruments.

Doctor Caspian Agare would like the bossy researcher out of his infirmary. Preferably before she finds anything else to complain about.

He’s reckless, foulmouthed, and infuriatingly good at his job. She’s exacting, ambitious, and willing to fight for patients. When dockworkers begin falling ill after contact with the same water supply, their patients need both of them.

Kiarla came to Saltwake to do meaningful work. She wasn’t expecting the most aggravating man on the island to give her another reason to stay.