About the Book… One birthday. One island escape. One second chance she never expected. On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Belinda McGuire’s life implodes when her marriage ends and her carefully built future disappears overnight. Rather than endure sympathy and small talk back home, she escapes to a historic villa in Valletta, Malta, hoping sun, space, and time will help her breathe again. She doesn’t expect the villa’s chef to be Noah, her childhood neighbor and first love, now older, steadier, and impossible to ignore. As shared memories resurface over Mediterranean meals, Belinda begins to imagine a life that looks nothing like the one she lost. But when her grown children, estranged sister, and inconvenient ex-husband arrive, old wounds and misunderstandings threaten to derail everything. Caught between the past she survived and the future she might still claim, Belinda must decide whether Malta is simply an escape, or the place where her life truly begins again. About the Author… Joy Skye lives on the seductive island of Corfu with her four dogs and an embarrassing number of cats. Her many years working in the tourist industry on this sunny island and her love of all things literary inspired her first romantic comedy, Corfu Capers and she has been writing ever since. She loves to cook, dance and drink wine, usually at the same time, and is currently working on her next book, due to be released later this year. She also loves to travel, absolutely anywhere, and is looking forward to jumping on a plane!
