She has hidden that she’s an alpha for seventeen years. The omega across the table is making it harder to keep hiding.

Imogen Hsu keeps Vesper Harbor’s records accurate. Her own registration is the exception: a false beta designation entered to protect her from a system that singles out female alphas.

Now the state wants her to help rewrite that system. The assignment is everything she has worked for—until an audit threatens to expose the secret beneath her career.

Jonah Kessler, the widowed harbormaster consulting on the reforms, knows how to wait through difficult weather. He leaves her coffee, gives her space, and notices more than she is ready to explain.

As her suppressants become harder to rely on and the investigation moves closer, Imogen must decide whether to let him know the woman behind the record.

She can help make a place for people like her. First, she has to believe she deserves to live there too.

A slow-burn MF omegaverse romance featuring a female alpha and a male omega, mature protagonists, a hidden designation, quiet devotion, explicit adult intimacy, and a complete HEA. This one-couple romance concludes Vesper Harbor’s town storyline and is best read after Books 1–4.