Summer of Deception

By Elva Cobb Martin

Description:

Summer of Deception - Book 2 The Barretts of Charleston

Determined to unearth the truth about her DEA agent brother’s reported death, Rachel York takes a position at an historic Charleston tea plantation, but she finds she is ill prepared to deal with the plantation’s new owner. Luke Barrett may be handsome, but he is overflowing with bitterness and distrust.

Widowed and wounded, former Marine Corps Special Forces operative Luke Barrett has enough to handle with his little girl and an historic property to upkeep. The last thing he needs is a feisty, stubborn woman with whom to contend. Yet, Rachel’s determined spirit awakens something in Luke that he thought died a long time ago.

Luke begins to capture Rachel’s heart until the night she uncovers evidence he may be keeping his plantation solvent by allowing cocaine to be smuggled along his coastline.

Devastated by the possibility, Rachel must decide whether to confront him, even while she conceals secrets of her own.

When all the deception rips asunder in a hurricane, will love survive?

Book Takeaway:

God can and does work all things together for our good, no matter how challenging. And often beyond our highest expectation.

Awards:

Why the author wrote this book:

Because I love inspirational romantic suspense and believe women should have something exciting to read that will inspire them rather than shock them with explicit sex and violence. This book idea came to me after visiting Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C. A short time later, I read some old newspaper clippings describing a famous Carolina drug investigation case called Operation Jackpot led by a then U.S. Attorney Henry McMaster where over a hundred prominent people from Charleston and surrounding areas were prosecuted successfully for drug smuggling on the Carolina coast. This gave me my suspense/mystery idea. BTW, Henry McMaster is our new Governor of S.C.