He was striking, sexy, with a quality of rough-and-tumble attractiveness. His eyes were a vivid shade of blue-green in his tanned face. Lucy pushed the hair out of her eyes and regarded him warily. “Take it easy, will you?” he said curtly. She spun to face him with a gasp, her disheveled brown hair partially obscuring her vision. By the time she had struggled to her feet, the man had reached her. Her weight pitched forward and she hit the ground, taking the impact on her hands. As she quickened her pace, the toe of her sneaker caught on the wind-scuffed basalt. A glance over her shoulder revealed that he was following her. She headed to the trail that led back up to the roadside turnout. In other circumstances Lucy might have reacted differently, but she didn’t care to find herself alone on a beach with him. And something about him conveyed a sense of having been acquainted with life’s rougher edges. He had the strapping build of a man who earned his living outdoors. He was followed by a dark-haired stranger, whose alert gaze was fastened on her. In the periphery of her vision, Lucy saw a dog making his way along the edge of the water. Needing some privacy and time to think, she goes to a nearby beach and meets a dark-haired stranger. Lucy Marinn, a glass artist who lives on San Juan Island, has just been dumped by her boyfriend Kevin. com BAM! Indigo.ca Ī sneak peek of the second book in the Friday Harbor series Questions about love, loyalty, old patterns, mistakes, and new beginnings are explored as Lucy learns that some things in life―even after being broken―can be made into something new and beautiful.Īmazon B&N iBooks Kobo Audiobooks.

Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second thoughts, and Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretenses. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy’s parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to “romance” Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Lucy’s bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancé Kevin has left her. Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington.

Rainshadow road by lisa kleypas