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.
Anna Sullivan brings us the first book in her witty new
contemporary romance series set off the coast of Maine.
TEMPTATION NEVER TASTED SO SWEET . . .
Maggie Solomon has always been one of Windfall Island's
favorite daughters. A beautiful, passionate charter pilot
who loves this remote Maine island, Maggie has never cared
much for outsiders-until her latest passenger arouses the
curiosity of the town . . . and something hot and
irresistible in Maggie. With his long, lean looks and razor-
sharp wit, the man is temptation itself.
Cop-turned-PI Dexter Keegan is on a covert mission to solve
the case that will make his career: uncovering the identity
of the Stanhope heir, kidnapped nearly a century ago. No one
on this fiercely protective island can know what he's doing,
not even the spirited, blue-eyed beauty who infuriates-and
excites-Dex. As the desire between them ignites, Maggie
becomes the key to the case . . . and the target of an
unknown enemy. Now Dex will do anything to protect the woman
he's come to love-even risk his own life.
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