Leaving Lana'i
Claire EdieSecond in the USA-Today best-selling Pacific Horizons series!
In these connected romantic novels, characters facing tragedy,
heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of
the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their
spirits, but only human love can heal their souls....
One
horrible night 15 years ago, a little girl named Maddie was taken away
from the island paradise she treasured, the townspeople she loved, and
the playmate who shared her soul.
Now, she's coming back to them.
Maddie
was only a child in those idyllic, carefree days when she and her best
friend Kai swam in the ocean, fished, hiked, and stargazed on the
tropical island of Lana'i. At 25, she realizes that her memories of
those elementary-school days may have been romanticized, given that the
months following her mother's sudden death and her own unwilling
departure from Lana'i were the worst of her life. But she has never
given up her dream of returning to the people she cared about. Not when
warm images of the boy Kai's face continue to haunt her mind.
Having
contrived to do post-doctoral research studying feral cats on the
neighboring island of Maui, bold-from-birth Madalyn Westover isn't
afraid to show up out of nowhere and say hello. Nor is she afraid to
track down Kai, despite several nebulous warnings about how much he has
changed. But when she realizes that every man, woman and child in Lana'i
City seems to have mysterious knowledge about her own family which she
does not, Maddie doesn't feel so brave anymore. And when reality crashes
into fantasy full force, she must decide in whom and what she can trust
to find her own true home.