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On the Florida Gulf Coast, Dock Nine is home to eight filthy-rich best friends, eleven eventual yachts, one permanently chaotic waterfront honky-tonk, and enough bad decisions to keep the marina insurance company awake at night. At the center of it all is Delilah Mae Hollis—Texas billionaire, bartender, ranch heiress, heavily tattooed hellcat, and owner of Hell or High Water, whose hobbies include fast trucks, expensive boats, questionable wildlife encounters, and treating “that’s a terrible idea” like a personal challenge. Then Beau Rhett Callaway pulls into the empty slip aboard MATCHSTICK and discovers his gorgeous new neighbor drunk in a swamp at 2:47 A.M. trying to wrestle a nine-foot alligator. Instead of running, the equally unhinged Texas firefighter thinks she might be the most interesting woman he’s ever fucking met. Soon Beau is stealing Delilah’s cowboy hats, bartending at Hell or High Water, competing with her over everything and becoming so permanently attached to Dock Nine that nobody remembers life before him. They’re just best friends—never mind the constant touching, possessiveness neither will admit is jealousy, drunken naps together, unbearable tension, or the way Beau would follow Delilah straight into hell if she yelled, “Cowboy, get the truck.” But with two unwanted admirers arriving, the entire Dock Nine family placing bets, and one friendship getting dangerously close to becoming something neither lunatic planned for, Delilah and Beau are about to learn that falling in love might be the craziest fucking thing they’ve ever done.