Windfall Island off the Maine coastline is the setting for this book about rugged islanders and their distrust of outsiders. Eking out a living from fishing and salvage, smuggling during the prohibition years and now tourism, the natives are fiercely independent. Maggie Solomon flies a helicopter and small plane in a business which brings visitors to TEMPTATION BAY.

Dexter Keegan, a Boston investigator, is sent to discover anything he can about the fate of a child who vanished eighty years ago, from a wealthy family. The Boston Stanhopes value discretion so he doesn't tell anyone exactly what his mission entails, instead chatting to shopkeepers and local historians. He's not the only one gaining attention however - Maggie's father is an Admiral in the Navy and he's running a political campaign, the only fly in the ointment being that Maggie is a civilian pilot instead of obeying him and joining the services. A few days later, Maggie is wondering just what the man she thinks is a lawyer is doing on the island. He hasn't had any meetings and must be running up billable hours and hotel time. She starts suspecting that her father has hired him for some reason - maybe to check out people.

When Dexter finally tells Maggie his quest, because she's the only one who can get her hands on some old journals, she doesn't know if helping him would be the right thing to do or if it could turn the lives of people she cares about upside down.

This is a slow-burn romance with the focus on well- described setting and intransigent characters, on the contrast between the city dweller and the fishermen. There's also tension, as the possibility of finding a lost heir brings jealousies out of the closet and attracts the notice of people with less than kind motivation. Anna Sullivan, who lives in Michigan, has continued the tale in the next book, called 'Hideaway Cove'. If TEMPTATION BAY suits you the next visit to Windfall Island sounds equally exciting.