Surfer’s Paradise by Zoe Normandie

He used to be the boy who walked me home. The boy I tutored math in high school. The boy who knew my scars and secrets.

Now he’s a man built for war—

and I don’t know how to breathe around him.

Isaac Rayleigh is fury in ink and muscle.

He is both the boy who shattered my heart in a dozen quiet ways…

and the man wants to piece it back together.

He’s everywhere.

Guarding. Watching. Wanting.

Kissing me like I belong to him.

But I don’t do belonging. Not anymore.

Because when you grow up the way I did—when your own blood turns on you—you learn fast: nothing comes without a cost. Not safety. Not love. Not him.

Only now he’s saying he wants it all.

My past. My body. My future.

He’s calling me his.

And God help me, I think I want to be.