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Rules of the Waves

by mirarennerAuthor · status: Open

Ongoing

🗓 Review by Oct. 4, 2026 · 7 days left

eBook · 446 pages · Mature · Book 2 of the Pressure Beneath Series · 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Steamy

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Wren Sullivan knows how to take care of people. As an ER nurse, it’s practically written into her DNA. What she doesn’t know how to do is let someone take care of her.


Then a flat tire leaves her stranded with Ronan Callahan.


Cocky, charming, and entirely too observant, Ronan gets under her skin almost immediately. What should have been one unexpectedly entertaining night turns into another. And another. Until Wren realizes their chance meeting may not have been chance at all.


Ronan has secrets. A lot of them.


The more Wren uncovers, the harder it becomes to separate the man she’s falling for from the lies that brought him into her life. And when his need to protect her starts costing Wren the one thing she refuses to surrender—her choices—wanting him is no longer enough.

But walking away from Ronan doesn't make the danger disappear.


Pulled into a world where everyone seems to know more than she does, Wren has to decide what she can forgive, what she can't, and whether trust can be rebuilt once it's broken.


Ronan has spent his life believing love means protecting the people he cares about at any cost.


Wren is about to teach him sometimes love isn't enough.



Rules of the Waves is a romantic suspense featuring sharp banter, forced proximity, broken trust, found family, high-stakes danger, plenty of heat, and an earned HEA.

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Beta reader: A beta read happens once the book is finished in draft but has not yet gone through editing. Readers focus mainly on line-level feedback: clarity, flow, and awkward phrasing. The author may welcome the occasional larger developmental suggestion, but the heavy structural work is largely done.

Contemporary Romance

Tropes (readers vote on how well each fits)
Broken Trust 100% Character Driven no votes yet Earned HEA no votes yet Forced Proximity no votes yet Found Family no votes yet Healing 100% He Falls First 100% High Heat, High Stakes no votes yet Possessive / Protective Hero no votes yet Protective Stalker no votes yet Second Chance no votes yet Secret Identity 100% Slow Burn no votes yet Suspense 100% Touch Her and Die 100% Who Did This to You? no votes yet

⚠ Content warnings: Abduction, Grief / Loss, Manipulation, Profanity, Psychological Abuse, Violence

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