Connor Rye was just looking to relax when he arrived on Whitaker Island. When he is attacked on his first night there, he doesn’t see much relaxing in his future. Maddie Rhine is hiding from her past and after receiving threatening letters from an unknown person, she doesn’t know who to trust, especially the new stranger on the island who she may have just hit over the head. But when Connor finds out that Maddie is in real danger, he vows to help her
This was an enjoyable romantic suspense. It is the second book in a series (the first book is about Connor’s brother) but I had no trouble following the story. I don’t know how many characters in the first book showed up in this second book but everyone was adequately introduced and explained so I didn’t feel like I was missing any information.
The mystery revolves around who is sending Maddie the mysterious notes. I did think it a little odd that Connor, who is a businessman/engineer and doesn’t know Maddie, volunteered to protect her but I guess I could get behind the idea that he was intrigued by her and that’s why he got involved. It is clear that Maddie is in hiding, but from whom and why is not clear. Her story slowly comes out over the course of the book although I wasn’t sure why she was so reluctant to tell the chief of police and Connor, the two people keeping her safe, why she was in hiding.
I loved the setting of Whitaker Island. It’s a privately owned island located somewhere off the coast of Washington. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out where this island would be located if it were real – apparently, there is an abandoned prison on one side of the island, it snows, and the ferry from Seattle makes two weekly runs. It seems like a small community – Connor even mentions there are 219 people on the island – but yet it’s also big enough to have a yacht club.
I liked this book and will probably check out more by this author.
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