She’s grown up, and hot now! Of course, given that she was thirteen the last time he saw her, she really should have grown up and filled those bra cups, or we’ve better get on the hotline to the endocrinology department at the nearest hospital ASAP. He knows her from way back, before he quit the island after some drama involving his father sleeping with the nurse hired to care for Nate’s dying mother – I’m pretty sure there’s a book by Nicholas Sparks with that plot – and now he’s surprised by how she’s filling those bra cups and what not.

Romance is dead without the dough, after all. Oh, and he’s a very rich owner of a business, so he’s not some white collar hard-working dude if you are hoping for that kind of milkshake. To make her dream come true, she needs the help of carpenter Nathaniel Shaw.

Her plan is to restore the Angels Landing Plantation, a long-term plan that will earn her plenty of prestige and respect. Our architect Morgan quit her job at the big city to open her own firm in Sanctuary Cove. At least, I hope they are sequel baits, because if they aren’t, then the author would have lost the plot altogether in this padding-heavy story. Mind you, I’d have this feeling that there will be more books in this series, as there are certainly ample sequel baits here hogging the scene like obnoxious wallpaper. I doubt “Black Bay” makes a marketable title, and the sex between our hero Nathaniel Shaw and heroine Morgan Dane aren’t incredible enough to shake the fault lines and raise some new landmarks from the sea. Haven Creekis most likely the last book in the Cavanaugh Island series to have a title named after a place on the map.

Haven Creek by Rochelle Alers