Mahalo, My Love — Ida Hills

Fresh out of school, Laelani Winton must decide whether she will be a member of the Victorian gentry, a plantation owner or a Hawaiian princess. Can she trust her high-born English guardian, her Texas-born neighbor, her Hawaiian mothers family or even her maid-companion, Amy Hawkins? Wonderfully fast-paced, intriguing and spiced with just the right amount of sex, Mahalo, My Love will captivate your heart and sweep you off to Paradise!

When beautiful, newly-orphaned Laelani Winton returns home to Hawai`i with her maid-companion, Amy Hawkins in 1892, they capture everyone's attention and hearts. Handsome Texan, Clifton Davis, has become the island's "water-wizard," drilling artesian wells that pour life into the parched plantation lands. He is enchanted by Laelani but he is an American, and American sugar barons are threatening to take the Islands from Queen Liliu`okalani to increase their profits. Keoni, who bears a strong resemblance to King Kamehameha the Great, is a member of the Hawaiian Legislature caught up in the battle with the sugar barons. Everyone, including Keoni, thinks he is destined to marry Laelani until he catches sight of flame-haired Amy, so like an English version of the goddess Pele! Against the tensions of a nation being stolen away, this double romance will sweep you off to Paradise as it was more than a century ago. Join Laelani and Amy as they discover the beauty of the lsland.