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The Keeping: A Steamy Small-Town MM Romance
Paperback
Series: Merritt Harbor, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gus Ouellette has spent twenty years giving a dying harbor everything he has - and keeping nothing for himself.
He runs the fish co-op's failing dock on a bad shoulder and a worse conscience, floating half the fleet out of his own pocket to pay down a debt he can never clear. He gave up wanting things a long time ago. He decided he hadn't earned them.
Then a stranger sails single-handed around the point in a small, tired boat with no name on her bow. Amos Kean is broke, guarded, and only stopping for water - a drifter who lost everything to a company's smiling lie and swore he'd never let himself be held again. He means to be gone with the tide.
But the same kind of company is circling Merritt Harbor now, offering the drowning fleet a floor to stand on that Amos knows is painted on water. As the two of them fight to save the co-op the only honest way left - by holding on instead of selling out - the men who've each sworn off keeping anything find the one thing they can't stand to lose.
And a deal is coming that could take the harbor, and each other, in a single tide.
Two weathered, wary men. One narrow bed. A whole town watching the water.
Some things you hold because they're worth holding. Kept, not sold.
The Keeping is a steamy, standalone small-town MM romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after - Book 4 of the Merritt Harbor series, where the coast is cold, the men are hard-won, and every love story comes in around the same point. No cheating. No cliffhanger.
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