What do you think?
Rate this book
Tybee Island #1
Meant for Each Other
Kirsten is thrilled to return to the place where she spent so many summers as a child. Here she can forget the episode that nearly ruined her last year of college. Was it unreasonable to suppose that this far from the scene of her crime she would be safe from meeting the man who knew all about her worst moment?
After six months of nonstop traveling, Trey is happy to trade living on the road for the peace and quiet of Tybee Island. In such surroundings, he should be able to work undisturbed. These plans are interrupted by the appearance of a former student. Running into Kirsten is a disturbance of the worst kind: a reminder of an encounter he hasn’t been able to forget.
Author’s note: This is a revised and expanded version of a novella published years ago under a different title and pen name. It takes place before the events of Dream of Me.
After six months of nonstop traveling, Trey is happy to trade living on the road for the peace and quiet of Tybee Island. In such surroundings, he should be able to work undisturbed. These plans are interrupted by the appearance of a former student. Running into Kirsten is a disturbance of the worst kind: a reminder of an encounter he hasn’t been able to forget.
Author’s note: This is a revised and expanded version of a novella published years ago under a different title and pen name. It takes place before the events of Dream of Me.
209 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 17, 2017
488 people are currently reading
538 people want to read
About the author
Delaney Cameron
30 books460 followersI'm a Georgia girl at heart if not by birth. I love to read, watch college football, and spend time with my husband. I'm a hopeless romantic so there will always be a happily ever after in my stories. I also like to write about second chances because love doesn't always work out the first time.
For more information, visit my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Delaney-Came...
To contact me or join my mailing list: www.delaneycameron.com
Or email me: delaneycameronbooks@gmail.com
For more information, visit my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Delaney-Came...
To contact me or join my mailing list: www.delaneycameron.com
Or email me: delaneycameronbooks@gmail.com
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 41 reviews
June 23, 2024
It takes a bit to get going, the first 20-30% really dragged for me. I kept pushing and the rest of the story was a decent read! I enjoyed the storyline and the events that unfold from the roommate sending the poem. It was a short read so worth my time, but I wasn't fully engaged by it. Decent enough to push through!
September 18, 2021
I disliked this. What was the point with Will? Such a dumb little bit to throw in. I just couldn’t click with the characters and the plot. A DNF just as Tate was to come. . . .
January 17, 2018
Kirsten is thrilled to be heading to Tybee Island to help run her sister’s inn for the summer, as she has so many wonderful memories of summers spent there during their childhood. She’s hoping that distance will help her to forget about the incident that almost ruined her senior year at the University of Alabama. She thought that being this far from the scene of her most humiliating moment meant that she didn’t have to worry about running into the one man who knows. After spending six months traveling nonstop, Trey is ready for the peace and quiet of Tybee Island. He books a room for a month, hoping for peace and quiet to write his next book, while the renovations on his house are completed. His plans are derailed when he runs into his former student, Kirsten. The last thing he needs right now is the distraction of being reminded of an encounter with her that he hasn’t been able to forget or figure out.
This was a very sweet story but I just couldn’t connect with it, somehow. I kept putting off reading because of this, and a few times I thought about quitting entirely. I wanted to find out what happened just badly enough to keep reading. Both Kirsten and Trey, as well as Lucy and Fern, were very likeable. In some ways, I thought Kirsten was a little shallow, as was Will. I felt like she had trouble saying exactly how she felt, a lot of the time. It’s difficult to say exactly why I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I’d hoped without giving away too much. Honestly, it was a sweet, easy read so maybe the problem was that my expectations were too high and I should have just enjoyed the book for what it is.
This was a very sweet story but I just couldn’t connect with it, somehow. I kept putting off reading because of this, and a few times I thought about quitting entirely. I wanted to find out what happened just badly enough to keep reading. Both Kirsten and Trey, as well as Lucy and Fern, were very likeable. In some ways, I thought Kirsten was a little shallow, as was Will. I felt like she had trouble saying exactly how she felt, a lot of the time. It’s difficult to say exactly why I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I’d hoped without giving away too much. Honestly, it was a sweet, easy read so maybe the problem was that my expectations were too high and I should have just enjoyed the book for what it is.
December 25, 2018
As my first exposure to Delaney Cameron’s works, I found this work to be a superb example of clean, contemporary romantic fiction. I must admit that it took a while (about the first 10% of the book) to get into the story. I came near aborting the read. But then, things began to click, and I found that the boring beginning became highly relevant to the story as a whole. Central to the whole story is a twenty-line poem that Kirsten wrote to Trey. She never intended to send it to him, but her roommate found it and sent it. The events surrounding that poem play a significant part of the entire novella. Unfortunately, only two lines of the poem are revealed in the story. I would very much have liked to read the whole poem. I recommend this book to all my romance reader friends and advise them to absorb as much as they can during the first 10% because it all comes together as a beautifully-written lesson of love unrequited that turns into love everlasting.
Want to read
July 17, 2019🎁 FREE on Amazon today (7/17/2019)! 🎁
January 25, 2018
Exquisite Love Story
This beautiful story is much , much more than meets the eye. Yes , it is a complicated, modern romance where misunderstanding and pain twist into the relationships and solutions don’t seem possible. Yes, there are 2 men in Kirsten’s life who have different agendas and different styles. Yes, the characters come alive and become your friends as you learn of their inner feelings and deepest desires. Yes, the scenery is deliciously divine—the beach scenes sweep you away to a gorgeous southern island where you want to stay forever and not come back. Yes, the dialogue is real but masterful and often I found myself catching my breath as precious feelings were shared. Yes, it was wonderfully clean.
Yes, this book is well-written with a solid storyline but what I discovered within its pages was so much more. This tells the story of true love, pure love, and never-giving-up love, as well as unselfish love and your-needs-are-more-important-than-mine love. The author writes a brilliant journey of true love like I have never read before. Beautiful and soul-searching. Exquisite masterpiece.
This beautiful story is much , much more than meets the eye. Yes , it is a complicated, modern romance where misunderstanding and pain twist into the relationships and solutions don’t seem possible. Yes, there are 2 men in Kirsten’s life who have different agendas and different styles. Yes, the characters come alive and become your friends as you learn of their inner feelings and deepest desires. Yes, the scenery is deliciously divine—the beach scenes sweep you away to a gorgeous southern island where you want to stay forever and not come back. Yes, the dialogue is real but masterful and often I found myself catching my breath as precious feelings were shared. Yes, it was wonderfully clean.
Yes, this book is well-written with a solid storyline but what I discovered within its pages was so much more. This tells the story of true love, pure love, and never-giving-up love, as well as unselfish love and your-needs-are-more-important-than-mine love. The author writes a brilliant journey of true love like I have never read before. Beautiful and soul-searching. Exquisite masterpiece.
January 21, 2019
I have really enjoyed this author’s other series so was hoping to enjoy the Tybee Island books as well. Unfortunately I found this story to be the opposite. I felt like the characters were immature and their back and forth maybe-I-like-them-maybe-I-don’t gave me reader whiplash. There was some of this in the books in the other series, but I felt it was worse in this tale. I’ll read Tybee Island book 2 and hope the writing improves.
June 27, 2018
Awh! 😍
I loved this story so much. It was a real page Turner four me. I also like that the author Delaney Cameron, did the follow through. There have been many of the books I've read that don't have the follow through. Normally they just end with the confession of loving each other, but I feel like I'm hanging there. So this was refreshing to read past the wedding.
I loved this story so much. It was a real page Turner four me. I also like that the author Delaney Cameron, did the follow through. There have been many of the books I've read that don't have the follow through. Normally they just end with the confession of loving each other, but I feel like I'm hanging there. So this was refreshing to read past the wedding.
June 22, 2018
A clean romance
The concept was good but quite drawn out in parts. I never liked that... The slowness in some parts. I liked the beginning and the ending.
The concept was good but quite drawn out in parts. I never liked that... The slowness in some parts. I liked the beginning and the ending.
January 2, 2018
Such emotion!
This is a recently re-released early Delaney Cameron work, and it is wonderful! Dream of Me was one of the first books I’d read of hers, and I loved the push-and-pull and all of the emotion she wrote into the characters. When I discovered this, which takes place before Dream of Me, I had high expectations. I was not disappointed. Trey and Kirsten are individually so well written. The reader fully feels all of Kirsten’s emotional upheaval, humiliation, confusion, joy, adoration, and sadness right along with her as she tries to work out how to conduct herself and still falls deeper for Trey. We respect Trey for his desire to protect Kirsten’s feelings while maintaining distance, and when he begins to sort out his own mind and feelings, we feel that, too. Delaney Cameron is great with tension and developing both the characters and storyline in a well paced progression.
This is a recently re-released early Delaney Cameron work, and it is wonderful! Dream of Me was one of the first books I’d read of hers, and I loved the push-and-pull and all of the emotion she wrote into the characters. When I discovered this, which takes place before Dream of Me, I had high expectations. I was not disappointed. Trey and Kirsten are individually so well written. The reader fully feels all of Kirsten’s emotional upheaval, humiliation, confusion, joy, adoration, and sadness right along with her as she tries to work out how to conduct herself and still falls deeper for Trey. We respect Trey for his desire to protect Kirsten’s feelings while maintaining distance, and when he begins to sort out his own mind and feelings, we feel that, too. Delaney Cameron is great with tension and developing both the characters and storyline in a well paced progression.
March 26, 2018
A sweet, complicated and engaging romance. More interesting than your run of the mill romance, this quick read will have you hooked within the first few pages. Young Kristen met a boy in a gazebo when she was just twelve and he left a lasting impression, as did a college professor during her undergrad. She embarrassed herself in front of said professor, then runs into him again a year later. The evolution of Trey (the professor) and Kristen’s relationship is interesting and will keep you engaged.
The are some overly sappy moments, but it’s a good read! I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. My opinions are my own.
The are some overly sappy moments, but it’s a good read! I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. My opinions are my own.
July 7, 2021
The Ending was Worth the Ups and Downs
This was such a rich, fairytale type of story. The POV switching was well-written. I was invested in the characters and wanted to see how the story would play out.
My only issues were with the use of parentheses when simple commas would do, and at the end, the last paragraph was dark. I read in dark mode and haven't seen the font darkened like that before. It was a bit difficult to read that bit.
Overall, this was a clean, sweet contemporary romance. If that's to your liking, you won't want to pass this one up.
This was such a rich, fairytale type of story. The POV switching was well-written. I was invested in the characters and wanted to see how the story would play out.
My only issues were with the use of parentheses when simple commas would do, and at the end, the last paragraph was dark. I read in dark mode and haven't seen the font darkened like that before. It was a bit difficult to read that bit.
Overall, this was a clean, sweet contemporary romance. If that's to your liking, you won't want to pass this one up.
December 1, 2021
Swoony
Intriguing variation on a popular romance trope with some yummy pulse-racing moments. The hero's turnaround from not believing in love to proposing is a bit too fast but it's still a sweet happily-ever-after. I really appreciate how the author lets readers enjoy a full conclusion + epilogue for the couple to give a full sense of their happiness and some time for us to savor it.
Intriguing variation on a popular romance trope with some yummy pulse-racing moments. The hero's turnaround from not believing in love to proposing is a bit too fast but it's still a sweet happily-ever-after. I really appreciate how the author lets readers enjoy a full conclusion + epilogue for the couple to give a full sense of their happiness and some time for us to savor it.
March 31, 2018
☺☺☺☺
I enjoyed reading Kristen and Treys love story. Only when completed and thinking about this review did I start to consider that there were things about Kirsten that seem unbelievable. That seems like a negative but it really isnt. The author got me to suspend my disbelief for the length of the story, a testament to good writing.
I enjoyed reading Kristen and Treys love story. Only when completed and thinking about this review did I start to consider that there were things about Kirsten that seem unbelievable. That seems like a negative but it really isnt. The author got me to suspend my disbelief for the length of the story, a testament to good writing.
June 24, 2018
Trey and Kristen
I choose this book because I knew a little about Tybe Island. Like stories of B &B's. As I read I found I liked Delaney's still of writing. A little mystery,a little romance. Liked the clean story of Kristen. A quick read. Makes you smile. Sometime you wonder where Trey is coming from. Why he says the things he does. I will read more of her books.
I choose this book because I knew a little about Tybe Island. Like stories of B &B's. As I read I found I liked Delaney's still of writing. A little mystery,a little romance. Liked the clean story of Kristen. A quick read. Makes you smile. Sometime you wonder where Trey is coming from. Why he says the things he does. I will read more of her books.
June 24, 2018
She met him at 12
As a girl with pigtales, alone on a beach, she met a man who was waiting for Linda, who never arrived. It could actually have been very dangerous for her.
Years passed. They met again.
Her love for him had started at that young age, and kept growing, despite misunderstandings and wrong assumptions. An innocent, if unrealistic sweet story.
As a girl with pigtales, alone on a beach, she met a man who was waiting for Linda, who never arrived. It could actually have been very dangerous for her.
Years passed. They met again.
Her love for him had started at that young age, and kept growing, despite misunderstandings and wrong assumptions. An innocent, if unrealistic sweet story.
September 29, 2022
This is the second series that I have read and I am in love with the characters and the authors way of telling their stories. However, being from Georgia and a somewhat frequent visitor to Savannah and Tybee Island - I can tell you that the sands are most definitely not white and the waters sparkling blue. Other than that I have no complaints!
September 18, 2023
I read this because a friend recommended it, but between the characters saying “females” all the time and the romanticized bullies (not enemies) to lover plot, it just wasn’t for me. Also you can’t convince me all the girls were after a man named *Trey.* (it IS a short read you could add to your reading challenge I guess)
December 21, 2017
Cute Romance
This is a very enjoyable sweet romance with adorable characters and heartwarming cute little romance which will have you laughing and falling in love with Tybee Island and these characters too.
This is a very enjoyable sweet romance with adorable characters and heartwarming cute little romance which will have you laughing and falling in love with Tybee Island and these characters too.
January 12, 2018
4.5 stars rounded up
What a great story. I'm not usually into books about a woman who's in love with a disinterested man, but this one was surprisingly good. I did wish that Trey would have suffered a bit of agony before a happy ending. That would have made it perfect.
What a great story. I'm not usually into books about a woman who's in love with a disinterested man, but this one was surprisingly good. I did wish that Trey would have suffered a bit of agony before a happy ending. That would have made it perfect.
February 17, 2018
Very good book
I enjoyed reading this book very much. To see the love a young girl finds and keeps is breathtaking. There is a good example here to be followed for young women. Maybe divorce will finally go away.
I enjoyed reading this book very much. To see the love a young girl finds and keeps is breathtaking. There is a good example here to be followed for young women. Maybe divorce will finally go away.
March 12, 2018
Ms. Cameron knows how to hold your attention. It’s a romance that gives you just a touch of suspense with the additional love interests. I just found these books and I will definitely be reading more of her work!
July 18, 2018
Light and captivating
Well-developed story and not boring!
The only not so good point is that I thought Kirsten was too emotional sometimes and I couldn't relate to what she was thinking or doing.
Overall, it's worth Reading and I really liked It!
Well-developed story and not boring!
The only not so good point is that I thought Kirsten was too emotional sometimes and I couldn't relate to what she was thinking or doing.
Overall, it's worth Reading and I really liked It!
January 8, 2019
Enjoyed this one enough to go back and reread it more than once. Loved the ending and watching the hero finally figure out he loves the heroine. Thankful he made up in the end for some of the things he said to her at the beginning.
January 3, 2018
Very cute story.
January 7, 2018
Feel good book
Loved that this book was set in one of my favorite places, tybee island. I would have liked more detail about location.
Loved that this book was set in one of my favorite places, tybee island. I would have liked more detail about location.
February 9, 2018
Good book
This was a very good and enjoyable book. It was well written and moved along well. Very sweet book to read.
This was a very good and enjoyable book. It was well written and moved along well. Very sweet book to read.
February 18, 2018
A great love story
I really enjoyed this story. It was a great story about finding true love. It was a really sweet romance.
I really enjoyed this story. It was a great story about finding true love. It was a really sweet romance.
June 22, 2018
This was a great book, really enjoyed it.
August 24, 2018
Good clean book
I enjoyed the book a lot but felt like it was a little slow and dragged on a little bit too much. Very sweet story though.
I enjoyed the book a lot but felt like it was a little slow and dragged on a little bit too much. Very sweet story though.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 41 reviews