Siren Song

They wanted footage of a starlet crying. They got a monster in a wet dress. Soraya Vale was America's favorite thing to hate - cancelled, humiliated, finished. Then she drowned. What walked out of the water wearing her face is not the girl who went under. Maren is a siren from the black deep, unbothered by the cameras waiting for her to break, curious about the ruined life she's inherited. So when the industry shoves her onto Castaway Hearts - a celebrity island survival-dating show meant to be her public execution - she catches a fish with her bare hands, sings the whole camp into the tide, and lets the internet lose its mind.
There's just one man the Song doesn't move. Cassian Rhodes: her supposed ex, certain every serene smile is an act, braced for the beggar she used to be. He gets a stranger instead - a woman who looks at him like they've never met and wants absolutely nothing from him. It undoes him more than any pursuit ever could. "You really don't remember me? Then tonight I'll help you review."But the sea has noticed one of its own is alive and ashore, and dry land drains a siren by the day.
To keep the man and the warmth, Maren will have to bargain a third way out of two worlds that have only ever known how to take. A face-slap glow-up, a reverse-chase that leaves the ex obsessed, and a fantasy romance about the difference between being wanted and being seen. Standalone. HEA. One earned love scene.