If I were going to vacation at the beach or on a cruise this summer, this would be a great book to take. It reads smoothly and does not take much concentration, and its plot is interesting and somewhat suspenseful. It has a who-done-it mystery toward the end, but it is essentially a romance novel, albeit of a more literary cast than most. The descriptions of the Outer Banks of North Carolina are extremely well done. What a reader must needs overlook is that the plot is highly unlikely, almost unbelievable.
The protagonist, Kya, is abandoned by both parents and all her siblings at the age of nine in an isolated area on the edge of the marshes. And she survives. Grown to young adulthood, she is, of course, breathtakingly beautiful, and attracts the attention of not one, but two, of the "town boys." When one of them is found dead, possibly murdered, she is the first suspect.
In the midst of all this Kya has turned herself into a best-selling author and illustrator of books about the flora and fauna of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Who would have thought it?
I don't want to be too critical of a book that is quite entertaining as it is being read (though quite forgettable afterwards). It is a pick of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club. That may or may not be a recommendation for potential readers, depending on how one views Reese Witherspoon's literary judgment.
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