A practical-minded police chief and his first love get a second chance at romance in this novel in the Bayberry Island series.
Every instinct told Police Chief Clancy Flynn that his island's claim to fame was nothing but a silly tourist attraction. But now and then, he couldn't help but wonder if his lifetime of bad romancesstarting with the pretty tourist who broke his fourteen-year-old heartcould be traced back to a childhood prank involving a mermaid statue...
Then one day the pretty tourist comes barreling back into Bayberryall grown-up and on the run with her niece. Though Evelyn McGuinness is wanted for kidnapping, she tries to persuade Clancy that there's more to the story. Now the by-the-book police chief must make the toughest decision of his life: to take Evelyn into custodyor into his arms...