Paradise Island [Paperback]

Gena Hale (Author), Lynn Viehl (Author), Jessica Hall (Author), S. L. Viehl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 2001

Paradise Island makes an ideal refuge for marine archaeologist Luke Fleming-until the day he finds a barely-clad woman washed ashore on a raft. She claims she has amnesia. He's sure she's just out to seduce him. But he can't deny the heat between them...

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Handsome Luke Fleming is a serious marine archaeologist, but the media treat him like a sex symbol. He escapes to his private island off the Florida Keys to complete his latest project, one he's working on secretly for the State Department. A raft drifts toward the island carrying a scantily clad woman whom he immediately suspects is a plant from the tabloids. She is badly burned, and when she regains consciousness she has amnesia and is unable to tell him anything except that she believes she's in danger. He names her Jade after the unusual ring she is wearing and tries to maintain a gruff manner to fight off his attraction. Then an FBI agent shows up and claims that Jade is a married computer whiz who is illegally selling secrets, but Jade's intuition tells her that the story is false. Intrigue abounds in this action-filled romance that will leave readers on the edge of their seats with its conspiracies and betrayals. Patty Engelmann
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Exhilarating...action-packed romance thrillers don't come any better. -- Judith Gould

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (April 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451409825
• ISBN-13: 978-0451409829
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First in the trilogy! A sure 5 star winner!, October 25, 2001

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Tracy Talley "Book Addict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paradise Island (Paperback)

I simply loved this book! I read it in 5 hours and could NOT put it down! I read the trilogy backwards, I started with DREAM MOUNTAIN, which is the second book and I should've started with this one, PARADISE ISLAND. Either way you read them, they make sense and I cannot wait for the third book to come out in March, SUN VALLEY.

~Fame is the furthest thing from Luke's mind. He has secluded himself on his own private island to work on a secret project that the whole world wants. He is a reknowned marine archaelogist and much sought after in the press for being devilishly handsome and extremely smart. His island, Paradise Island, not many know about, its not even on most maps, this is why he is so shocked when a raft washes ashore with a barey dressed woman inside! Who in the world is she? Is she another of the hoards of women who try endlessly to seduce him for publcity?

Who is she? She can't even remember that much. She must have amnesia. Why is she washed ashore in some raft wearing close to nothing? Why does she feel this deep down sense of dread and fear? Someone is trying to kill her...why? Why can't she remember? And why is this handsome guy that has found her think she is some groupie out to seduce him? Maybe he is some maniac hermit! Maybe he is the person she is running from!

Luke soon names her Jade, after the ring she is wearing. Luke does't trust her, but he is hopelessly attracted to her. Maybe she isn't lying. Maybe she IS some amnesiac...but who cant be sure? He can't take any chances with the information he has. He needs to safeguard his project.
In a world of corruptness and greed, Jade must remember who she is and why she is being hunted or she will die. Can she trust Luke? Was he somehow involved in her nightmare? Would her falling in love with him effect this whole mess?

This is one action-packed romance with twists that leave you turning the pages rapidly for more! I rarely find a romance that has action and twists that I find so absorbing that I can't put it down, but this is one of them, including the second to this trilogy, DREAM MOUNTAIN. Gena Hale is a new author to the romance genre and I think she has made an impression that will launch her into success quickly! She is also known as Sheila Veihl in another genre.

Tracy Talley~@

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Similar in style to Linda Howard & Elizabeth Lowell, April 17, 2001

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This review is from: Paradise Island (Paperback)

Just finished reading this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is in the style of Linda Howard & Elizabeth Lowell and while it's a bit "lightweight" in comparision to those authors, it was still a good read. I would definitely recommend this book for those of us who are waiting anxiously for Howard and Lowell's next new release. I'm looking forward to Gena Hale's next book.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars tries for clever, succeeds at confusing, April 30, 2001

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Elizabeth Isabella (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paradise Island (Paperback)

Could this author have tried to keep the plot more close to the vest? This book I found to be boring and confusing, simply because the author tried to have a surprise around every corner, for example, circling for 5 pages about someone's relationship, just so she can spring the fact that they are actually father and daughter on the unsuspecting bad guy. I found myself turning to the end of the book to find out the big secret, so that the rest of the story would be mindly intelligable.

Truly not worth it. And I disagree with the previous reviewer. Linda Howard and Elizabeth Lowell are far superior. This is not a worthwhile substitute.