From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a new chapter in her celebrated Chesapeake Diaries series, featuring her signature โrich characterization, charming setting, and a romance youโll never forgetโ (Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
Architect Cassidy Logan has sworn off good-looking adventurers. Newly divorced, sheโs focused on building ecologically friendly, historically accurate homes on the Chesapeake Bay for her fatherโs construction company. Traveling to Cannonball Islandโwhere there has been no new construction in nearly one hundred yearsโCass is sensitive to the heritage of the island, and has come up with plans so perfect sheโs determined to buy a home for herself. Even the fact that Owen Parkerโa local who she dismisses as a lightweight and a playerโseems to be everywhere isnโt enough to deter her from building her dream house.
Owen Parker is and always has been sinfully handsome and wickedly clever, a magnet for mischief as well as girls. Heโs a rolling stone, going and doing whatever appeals to him, from flying a mail plane in Alaska, to working on a cattle ranch in Australia, a shrimp boat in Louisiana, and surfing and diving in Costa Rica. When an old friend offers him a job salvaging a sunken ship on the Chesapeake Bay, Owen gladly accepts. Somethingโs been telling him it was time to head home to Cannonball Island, and a job is as good an excuse as any. And heโs totally smitten by the pretty architect on the scene, but it seems heโs finally met a woman whoโs immune to his charms. Sooner or later, Owen will have to face the reason why he always runs, because this time, leaving just might be harder than staying.
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