Provenance — Cheryl L. Hyde

A Great Summer Beach Read! This book represents a prequel to Book Two ~ Convergence and Book Three ~ Evolution, providing the basis and background for the series. Books Two and Three can be enjoyed without reading this book first. Sometimes you find things you are not looking for-a heated tryst, a summer romance, or your destiny! Smart, beautiful, sexy, out-going Kaylie has plans for her life. A pre-planned "chance" meeting, on the beach, leads Kaylie on a summer romance adventure that wasn't part of her plan. Kaylie just needs a little help from a certain handsome, sexy beach bum-nothing more. She has plans that do not include romance or being half of a couple. Max is the handsome, sexy, talented, beach bum Kaylie needs in more ways than one. He also happens to be a genius. Max is fit, with a muscular, athletic body, but he is too shy to even say "hi" to the gorgeous woman of his dreams-let alone ask her for a date. He simply stares, wondering how she became real, and why she is suddenly standing right in front of him-smiling. At first "blush" Max and Kaylie appear an unlikely couple; however, chemistry, destiny, and life are unpredictable. Kaylie finds herself intensely-intimately-drawn to Max on a primal level. "It's just biology, easily controlled," she tells herself-until that first tantalizing kiss. Max feels he really has found his dream girl and is happy just spending time with her-even if summer is all they have. At least that is what he tells himself as sparks fly, electricity sizzles, and passions ignite. As the Anela Bay Trilogy unfolds, Max and Kaylie are engulfed in a confusing relationship that offers more than either had hoped or dreamed about. Max rescues Kaylie from a biker bar, they flee men in dark suits, Kaylie takes Max on the ride of his life in a world-class military boat, together they dance a very special hula at a Maui luau, and discover their true destinies are not what either originally thought.