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From the back cover: " A delightfully frothy, sexy love story".

Gina Bennett has been sent to a tropical island, Paradise, to finish the illustrations for the latest children's book she's been assigned, as well as to complete the edits to her book. The island is owned by the publisher of her book, but she's been assured there's just a few villagers there at the moment, so she's shocked when she sees Leo Sterne on the beach after her swim.

Charlie Whitaker is seemingly pretty happy with his life as a senior ad exec with his dad's company, except that he persists in making ridiculous bets with his twin sister Charlotte who works as a romance novel editor – the most recent having lost him his Mercedes (although I am hoping it's just the use of his car temporarily, the book isn't really clear on this). Now they've got a bet over a family heirloom antique sword (don't worry it's only worth $30,000 plus family sentiment) – if Charlie can write a publishable romance novel he can have permanent sole custody of the sword.

Maggie Sanders works for a small, family owned publishing company and is the author of 4 Extreme Adventure guides under the pen name M.S. Stevens - only she's convinced she's jinxed when it comes to travel and therefore hasn't done anything described in the guides

Cathy Bissette is a plain girl who is home in small town Swan Quarter for a summer vacation away from her editting job at a publisher in NYC.  She's got a manuscript by Teak Helm to read while she's there and she may be taking over as Teak's editor later in the summer.  But her peaceful idyll is ruined when Jared Parsons

Harriet Weatherspoon is living a quiet life as a high school english teacher in small town New South Wales in Australia.  She's got a passion for books and is even writing a play, mostly autobiographical telling of how her fiancé was stolen by her sister and she remains a virgin, etc. - so she's excited when her mother informs her that Brad Barrington the popular author is coming for dinner.