After she discovers her
sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City
townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex;
sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of
grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad
happens to me--it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise
me." So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road . . .
With a trunkful of emotional baggage...
and
her wailing four-year-old niece Maya. Letty is determined to out-run
Evan and the law, but run to where? Tanya, a woman with a past shrouded
in secrets, left behind a "go-bag" of cash and a big honking diamond
ring--but only one clue: a faded magazine story about a sleepy
mom-and-pop motel in a Florida beach town with the improbable name of
Treasure Island. She sheds her old life and checks into an uncertain
future at The Murmuring Surf Motel.
The No Vacancy sign is flashing & the sharks are circling...
And
that's the good news. Because The Surf, as the regulars call it, is the
winter home of a close-knit flock of retirees and snowbirds who regard
this odd-duck newcomer with suspicion and down-right hostility. As Letty
settles into the motel's former storage room, she tries to heal Maya's
heartache and unravel the key to her sister's shady past, all while
dodging the attention of the owner's dangerously attractive son Joe, who
just happens to be a local police detective. Can Letty find romance as
well as a room at the inn--or will Joe betray her secrets and put her
behind bars? With danger closing in, it's a race to find the truth and
right the wrongs of the past.
MARY KAY ANDREWS
MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels (including Hello, Summer; Sunset Beach; The High Tide Club; The Weekenders; Beach Town; Save the Date; Ladies’ Night; Christmas Bliss; Spring Fever; Summer Rental; The Fixer Upper; Deep Dish; Blue Christmas; Savannah Breeze; Hissy Fit; Little Bitty Lies; and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.
Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by twelve more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese.
She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in two restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn and Ebbtide—both named after fictional places in Mary Kay’s novels, and both available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. In between cooking, spoiling her grandkids, and plotting her next novel, Mary Kay is an intrepid treasure hunter whose favorite pastime is junking and fixing up old houses.
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