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Island Interlude

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Actor Alec meets a young 18 year old Libby in Bermuda and falls in love. They have a brief affair, but Alec, not knowing Libby loves him, thinks its better for her to move on with her life without him, and so dumps her and gets into a marriage of convenience, even though he loves Libby. fast forward eight years, and Libby returns to the island of her lost innocence, with Alec's eight year old son in tow. She meets up with Alec again, of course, and shocks him by his surprise off spring. Alec is consumed by guilt, but wants her back and pulls all the stops to get her back. This is a sweet romance with two people with a long history but a lot of love who find each other again. They never stopped loving each other, and its apparent they'r meant to be. This is a very satisfying romance if you can look past the separations they endured. I recommend it.

Grad student heroine goes back to the Bahamas to conduct interviews with the island's residents & to get closure from her brief affair with famous actor-director Hero 8 years earlier. Recently-widowed Hero just so happen to be vacationing with his 7yo daughter too. Their reunion is bittersweet especially when she told Hero right away that they have a 7yo son together. He persistently attempts to win back her affection & be actively involved in their son's life. But heroine doesn't trust him to not break her heart again when it looks like his marriage proposal is primarily motivated by his wanting to be with their son. How will Hero regain her trust?

This was a fast & emotionally-evoking read. It was angsty & featured a hero who truly regretted his past decisions re: heroine & tried to make up for it. I could feel his painful regrets & desperation to right his wrongs with heroine & their son. Overall I'd say that Hero groveled enough. He spent most of the book groveling via his actions & not so much his words. And therein lies my problem with him. He needed work in verbally communicating his feelings, crucial events, & needs in a straightforward way with heroine. He often assumed that she knew what he was thinking & would be surprised that she misunderstood his silence. And that's another problem I have with Hero. He not only expected heroine to read his mind he also thought he could read her mind! One of his primary reasons for marrying the other woman 8 years earlier was b/c he thought heroine didn't really love him & that she would rather pursue her career goals than be with him. And she never once told him that nor did he ask her what she wanted. He just assumed a lot of things about her & made a really big mistake b/c of it. McCallister tried to make up for this by letting heroine emphasize the positive side of their separate lives in the past 8 years. I didn't like this bandaid-over-an-infected-wound method b/c it belittled heroine's pain. I'd rather that both Hero & heroine face the past (pain & regrets and all) for what it was & move on to their HEA(Happily Ever After) from that point on.

Recommended.