Welcome to the last book in the Kauri Bay series. The one in which, hopefully, all the unfinished plot lines will be resolved in one way or another. Readers will certainly get to look at the theatre company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew in much more detail! In the meantime, Harper’s older brother Samuel comes for a holiday in Kauri Bay to see how Harper, his sister Hope, and the children are settling in to the town after the death of Harper’s wife some months before. Harper asks Sally, the owner of the B&B on Beach Front Avenue, to show Samuel around Kauri Bay since he and Hope are both working. And sparks fly! But there are 400 kilometres between Sam and Sally when the holiday is over, and they only have short weekend days together after his trips up and back. It’s not long before they both fear they will lose the love they have just found. Samuel comes to realise how much of a rut he’s in at Crabbits & Co in Rotorua, and that only fuels his unhappiness. He needs a job and a house in the Kauri Bay area – but how will that ever be possible?
