Contemporary romance/thriller novel, part 1 in the Blue Island duet
It’s possible to run while standing in place. Renee Ocean, a 26-year-old bartender, is living in paradise. Surfing by day and mixing drinks by night, her life at the Blue Island – a luxurious resort hotel in Hawaii – couldn’t be more perfect, especially because she gets to share it with the ‘Beach Bums’, a bohemian commune of peace-and-love hippies who are the embodiment of everything she ran away from, back when she was 17 and had to learn the hard way that the people who are supposed to be your rock – your community – don’t necessarily have your back when it matters most. Just when she thinks she has it all figured out, her life of rainbows and sunsets is shattered into a million pieces by a pair of deadly steel-blue eyes. Sean Evans – a shady businessman with a perpetual smirk and a thousand secrets behind his ice cold gaze – is like a bad, itchy rash: there’s no shaking him, he always shows up at the worst possible moment, and when you finally give in, scratching the itch feels so amazingly damn good. The worst thing about Sean, though, is that he makes Renee feel safe. Bit by bit he breaks down her defenses, making the world seem a little less scary, and a little more filled with hope. Which is exactly what makes him so dangerous.