Caribbean Interlude
Irene Steele thinks she has a perfect marriage, and a gorgeous home that will keep her afloat as her career as a magazine editor starts to slide towards a younger rival. She is shattered when news comes of her husband Russell’s death in a plane crash; worse, is the discovery that his long business trips were cover for a secret life on a beautiful Caribbean island of St. John.
Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter In Paradise, the first in her proposed ‘Winter’ Trilogy, then takes Irene and her sons—Baker and Cash-- to St John, where they are ushered into a palatial villa that belonged to her husband, known as “Invisible Man” to the locals, who knew of his existence, but never saw him—none except his lover and her daughter.`
Irene’s attempts to find out what really happened are stonewalled, and his mysterious employer is impossible to track down. There is no trace in the villa, of her husband or his girlfriend Rosie, who also died with him, in the same crash, leaving a grieving daughter Maia, stepfather Huck and best friend Ayers.
The town has a close-knit community that cares for Maia and Huck. Baker and Cash both fall for Ayers, who has broken off with her unfaithful boyfriend, and there is some romantic tension going on there, while Irene forms an unlikely friendship with Huck.
It’s a lightweight beach read, which ends with a tantalizing hook that leaves the reader guessing about the truth of the crash, which will, hopefully, be revealed in the next book.
Winter In Paradise
By Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Little, Brown
Pages: 272
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