See Kandi Steiner’s ‘Love Overboard’ Cover Reveal (Exclusive)

Things are going to get a little wet in bestselling author Kandi Steiner’s latest adult romance novel.

Steiner’s Love Overboard, due out next March, brings romance readers’ favorite forced proximity and second-chance romance tropes to the high seas — and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the cover.

In Love Overboard, Ember Reed is finally living out her dream: she’s the chief steward on a superyacht in the dreamy Mediterranean. The gig makes her the star of a reality TV show Close Quarters filmed aboard the yacht (think: Bravo’s Below Deck).

Life is perfect — until Close Quarters producers decide to mix things up and hire Finn Pearson, Ember’s “one that got away.” Finn romanced Ember — then disappeared. Now that he’s working on the same yacht, sparks reignite with Ember.

Will eight weeks together at sea be a second chance at romance? Or will it end in disaster for Ember and Finn — and their charter guests?

“For me, Love Overboard is about what happens when you’re trapped in close quarters with the one person you can’t have — and what it costs to want them anyway,” Steiner, a BookTok favorite author, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “I love writing angst and exploring the ways love defies the rules, and this story let me blend that with my fascination for yacht life, the thrill of forced proximity and the undeniable pull of a second-chance romance.”

Steiner is “especially excited for its release because it’s my first angsty standalone in a while, and coming right after the re-release of A Love Letter to Whiskey.”

“I hope it gives readers who crave that same gut-wrenching, hold-your-breath feeling another book they won’t want to put down,” she says.

Steiner has penned other hits like The Kings of the Ice series and Red Zone Rivals series — which includes 2022’s Blind Side.

Love Overboard will be published on March 16, 2026 and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.