Leaving Lana'i: 2 (Pacific Horizons)

Second in the USA-Today bestselling Pacific Horizons series of romantic womens fiction by Edie Claire!One horrible night fifteen 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 shes 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 Lanai. At twenty-five she realizes that her memories of those elementary-school days may have been romanticized given that the months following her mothers sudden death and her own unwilling departure from Lanai 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 Kais face continue to haunt her mind.Having connived to do post-doctoral research studying feral cats on the neighboring island of Maui ecologist Madalyn Westover has at last managed to relocate herself only a boat-ride away from home. But will anyone recognize the tall striking redhead as the same stocky brute of a girl who used to push the boys around? Will her precious Nana remember her? Are her old man friends even still alive?Bold-from-birth Maddie isnt afraid to walk right up and find out for herself. 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 Lanai City seems to have mysterious knowledge about her own family which she does not Maddie doesnt feel so brave anymore. And when reality crashes into her fantasy full force she must decide in whom and what she can trust - including her own heart - to find her one true home.Leaving Lanai is the second novel in the Pacific Horizons series of romantic fiction by USA-Today bestselling author Edie Claire. Keep the glow of Alaskan Dawn alive as Haley and Ben touch the lives of new characters on the tropical islands and rocky coasts of the Pacific -- wherever the humpback whales roam!