Hawaiian Paradise Surprise

Award-winning and bestselling author Alexi Venice delivers a powerful, thought-provoking romance in paradise about a young widow struggling to finish her current writing project while being pursued by a carefree surfer and an eccentric businessman.

American Author Jill Cabott is in the prime of her career when she’s tragically widowed at the young age of 43. While grieving her husband, Peter, Jill is pressured by her agent and publisher to finish writing her latest crime thriller. Overcome with loss, Jill cannot summon the creativity needed for her usual knockout-punch ending.

Jill spends the holidays in Hawaii with Lindsay and Logan, her college-aged children, then sees them off to school while she remains at the condo to finish her book. Her publisher is paying for the retreat with the expectation that strolls along the beach during writing breaks will amp up Jill’s productivity.

While swimming one day, Jill meets Nash Denning, a local surfing legend. From the privacy of her lanai, she ogles him carrying his surfboard to and from the beach in his daily uniform of board shorts slung low over his hips. When Nash invites Jill to hang out with him and his surfing brahs, their Hawaiian bonhomie sparks her inner rebellion.

Also staying at the paradise condo complex is Benjamin Warner, a recently retired businessman and avid cyclist, who seems kind but is awkward and forgetful. When Jill helps Ben find something he’s misplaced, she ends up talking to him over lunch then touring his art studio. He gives her a watercolor that touches her on a deeper level than she’d like to admit.

Torn between the scruffy, cool Nash and the eccentric, unpredictable Ben, Jill rediscovers steamy romance and reignites her writing mojo.