A grieving widow. Her husband's explosive secret. A last-minute wedding with a shocking guest. 
Rina Archer is the second-eldest sister in the Archer clan. Like Holly, Amy, and Randy, she was born and raised in Islamorada, an island in the Florida Keys, but abandoned the island the second she could, age eighteen and ready for a bigger and better life. 
Everything was perfect. Until it wasn't. 
Six months ago, Rina's husband, Dennis, died of a massive heart attack. She and her children are grieving. Her older sister, Holly, continues to call from Islamorada about repairing the Archer House, the Inn where they all grew up, along with a surprise birthday party for their mother's seventieth--but Rina is resentful toward her family that is no longer in her life and refuses to go. 
That is, until a woman appears in her life with news that rocks her world forever. 
Now, Rina runs toward Islamorada, as a means to escape the secrets that swirl back home--revolving around her husband and another life he might have had that had nothing at all to do with Rina and the boys. As she dives into the once-familiar beauty of the island, she reconnects with old friends, with her sister Holly and her endearing brother, Randy. She finds a level of peace she didn't expect and shoves her secrets down deep. 
Soon, through a series of strange circumstances--and a wedding she's decided to help coordinate after the last-minute drop-out of the event planner--she finds herself face-to-face with the ever-handsome, high-school-sweetheart turned chef, Steven. 
But no matter how fast she runs, secrets have a way of catching up to her. 
That could be said for everyone in the Archer clan. It's safe to say their time is running out. 
Lose yourself in this new women's fiction series that revolves around friendship, love and loss among the Archer Clan. A heartwarming family saga that has the backdrop of the Florida Keys white sand and crystal blue waters. 
For fans of Debbie Macomber, Jan Moran, Caroline Brown, and Lilly Mirren

Secrets in Paradise (Book 2)

Literature & Fiction

THOMAS, KIMBERLY

Genre Fiction

Kimberly Thomas

A real estate mogul who lost everything. A return to the Florida Keys. Her first love and all the problems she left behind twenty-five years ago--await her. Holly Archer's husband ruined her life. While they made their fortune in Miami real estate, he took a mistress and managed to make enough illegal dealings to absolutely destroy them forever. Now, Holly's lost her real estate license, her house, her husband, her friends, and her life. But Islamorada calls. It's a sunny, white-sand strip of life and love and sun in the Florida Keys, where she grew up with her three siblings, Randy, Rina, and Amy--all of whom she's lost touch with over the past twenty-five years. Now, two years after the death of their father, the Archer House, the Inn where the four of them grew up, is dilapidated and has a financial bleed that she can't put her finger on; their mother has fallen into an intense depression and Holly finds a place where someone in the world actually needs her help. It's also a good place to hide in the wake of what her husband did, a place to pretend her life didn't crumble into nothing. But patching up the Archer family won't be easy. Her brother, Randy, is the only sibling who remains in the Keys, and his love for alcohol keeps him isolated and unwilling to help out. Their other sisters hardly answer the phone. Even as Holly digs in her heels, she creates conflict between herself and her own children, the people she loves the most. All the while, her old high school boyfriend is a mainstay on the island. He's a cop and, as news of Holly's husband's illegal dealings surface in Miami, perhaps he's one of the only people she can trust in the world. Secrets unravel in this first installment in the Archer Family Series. Lose yourself in this new women's fiction series that revolves around friendship, love and loss among the Archer Clan. A heartwarming family saga that has the backdrop of the Florida Keys white sand and crystal blue waters. For fans of Debbie Macomber, Jan Moran, Caroline Brown, and Lilly Mirren

The Archer House

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Secrets in Paradise (Book 2)

The Archer House