"A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island" By serena chase, usa todaygenre:Inspirational romance When alanna stone left her home on mackinac island she hoped to shed the stigma sell at a discount of suspicion cast on her family by a classmate"s mysterious death.By fleeing the island, however, she also let jonathan covington, her first love, slip away. Now an attorney in a bustling firm on the mainland, alanna stone is the goto girl for highprofile cases.Exhausted from one particularly rough murder trial, alanna takes time off from the firm to run her parents" art gallery while her father recovers from a stroke, hoping to rest and maybe find some answers.The mystery of her classmate"s death still haunts both alanna and her younger brother, trevor, on whom much of the small community"s suspicion rests.With trepidation and wellhoned investigative skills, alanna returns to mackinac island with hopes of clearing her brother"s name.When she steps off the ferry, though, she runs, quite literally, into jonathan covington the one person she"d most hoped to avoid. Seeing alanna again, even though he is casually involved with another woman, makes jonathan wonder if the reason he"s avoided romantic commitments all these years is that he"s been waiting for alanna"s return.When a request from one of his clients brings new suspicion upon the stone family, he has more than one reason to visit alanna more often at the art gallery. Alanna"s investigation into grady"s death isn"t only ruffling feathers on the island, it"s opening old wounds.When a longtime shopkeeper is murdered and alanna is the last person to have seen him alive the island"s gossip machine takes flight.Alanna now she has two things to prove.And the more she investigates, the more she begins to wonder if the two deaths could be connected. Together, jonathan and alanna search for the truth about the past and the present while trying to discover if there is still an open path back to each other or if it"s too late to recapture the love they once shared. Hits misses:The book"s cover art is cute, girly, and has a comfy island vibe that really sets the stage for the novel.Although i"ve never been to (click here) mackinac island, cara putman"s familiarity with the locale really shines through.Her sense of place is flawless.From the wind on the ferry to the exhaustive and slightly creepy bike ride through the dark woods to alanna"s parents" home, the reader is there.Geography aside, the smalltown politics and everybodyknowseverybody"sbusiness atmosphere was spoton comical in a way that didn"t detract from its realism;And the scents, from flowers to fudge to fish, were a delightful touch. Even minor characters in the novel are visual from the moment they come on scene.Whether it"s a fudgeshop owner, a retired school principal, or the local sheriff, you can see the nuances of expression and hear the inflection in their individual voices as if you"d lived on mackinac island yourself for years and know them quite well. As the leading man, Prom Dresses UK jonathan covington is a refreshing combination of romantic idealism and fishcatching, manly protectiveness, but it"s hard for him to assert the entirety of his nature with independent, determined and closedoff alanna.He is cautiously tenacious in his pursuit and vulnerable in his hope, but not in a way that weakens him.I liked him.Plus, he"s cute.Bonus! Alanna is a girl with some serious tunnel vision and it"s that oneminded, dwellingonthepast attitude that both cripples and propels her in the present.She"s beautiful, likable, smart and strong, but i felt that a few of alanna"s actions(Such as compromising a possible crime scene and taking the risk of putting her own dna onsite)Didn"t quite match up to her background as a criminal attorney.It is quite humorous when she realizes, under police questioning, that she"s doing and saying things she advises her clients not to do or say.That admission along with her passion to clear her brother"s name and, by extension her own make up for the few moments in which the reader"s suspension of disbelief suffers a minor hiccup. To read or not?Cara putman has penned a sweet story that may just encourage you to book a ferry across lake huron and test mackinac island"s romantic offerings for yourself.Although it may take you a minute to request the title from the helpful folks at your neighborhood bookseller, a wedding transpires on mackinac island is a fun weekend read that pairs mystery and romance with the scents of lilacs and fudge.Her reviews can also be found at the blog edgy inspirational romance.
