He was a Seattle billionaire in a $50,000 wheelchair. I was a barefoot ghost healer in a leaking cabin.
Damian Blackwood fell off a cliff and was told he'd never walk again. For 10 years he sat, cold, rich, and dead inside.
Elena Hart is the granddaughter of a $15 billion pharma empire who ran away to Cannon Beach, Oregon to heal fishermen for free with nine silver needles and pine oil. She sits on the floor. She never wears shoes.
When Damian's family begs her to heal him, she makes one deal: "Walk 100 steps barefoot for me, and I'll wear your ring again."
He carries water buckets. He chops wood in rain. He carries a fisherman 300 steps. He bleeds. He falls. He walks.
Then she takes him barefoot into London's richest hospital, fires a billionaire board who wears $2,000 shoes, hires fishermen as board members, and builds 100 free clinics with her husband who builds with bare hands in mud.
A story of 100 barefoot steps, too-salty salmon chowder, rain dancing, and a love that learns to walk again.
Barefoot billionaire. Ghost healer CEO. 100 steps that changed everything.
Trigger warnings: Emotional, healing, slow-burn, barefoot romance, class reversal, no cheating, HEA.
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