Sanctuary

A hurricane doesn't care about borders.But Anaïs Laurent and Miguel Vargas do—until the storm forces them into the same stone sanctuary with no way out.Dr. Anaïs Laurent runs a mobile clinic on the Haitian side of the border, treating the forgotten communities caught between two nations that weaponize their existence. She's seen what Dominican patrols do to her people. She's lived the consequences. When her van crashes on a washed‑out mountain road during a Category Three hurricane, the last person she wants to face is a man in uniform.Captain Miguel Vargas has spent a decade proving his loyalty to the Dominican Republic—patrolling the ridges, enforcing the line, burying the heritage he can't afford to claim. Duty is the only thing he trusts. Until the storm traps him with a Haitian doctor inside an abandoned colonial church, where duty suddenly feels like the least dangerous thing between them.Cold. Injured. Cut off from rescue.Forced into a fragile truce neither of them wants.But the storm outside isn't the only one they have to survive.Inside those stone walls, tension turns sharp, trust turns reluctant, and two enemies begin to see the person behind the border they were raised to defend.When the hurricane finally passes, the world outside hasn't changed—politics, uniforms, history, consequences. But Anaïs and Miguel have. And the sanctuary that saved them may become the most dangerous place of all.