I Booked My Own Sea Burial, But You Came Too Late

Dahlia Amberlight walks out of prison with a death sentence already written inside her body. Late-stage stomach cancer. No treatment and no future. And the crime that put her there?

Killing Arkin Wattson’s father.

So she does the only thing she can control.

She books her own sea burial. But before she can disappear, fate drags her back to the one man she never escaped.

Arkin Wattson.

The boy who once swore to marry her by the ocean. The man who's now preparing a wedding with her sister.

Working as a servant in his world, she becomes nothing more than a shadow he can command, humiliate, and discard.

“You need money, right?”

“Then stay outside my door tonight.”

But beneath the hatred in his eyes… something doesn’t quite die.

Because Dahlia is hiding more than just a broken past.

Her body is failing. Her time is running out. And the truth she buried ten years ago… is far more dangerous than anyone imagined.

Then one night, everything changes.

By the time Arkin finds out the truth…

it’s too late.

“Why didn’t you say anything?” his voice breaks for the first time. “Dahlia, what did you do to yourself?”