Winter in Paradise – Elin Hilderbrand

Irene Steele thinks she has it all: a job she loves, a beautiful home, and a husband who adores her.  However, when she gets a phone call from her husband’s mysterious employer informing her that he died in the US Virgin Islands, everything starts to fall apart.  Along with her two sons, she travels to St. John, where she finds that her husband led a second life, owning a multi-million-dollar villa that he shared with his girlfriend and their daughter.  While she tries to put the pieces of her life back together, she, and her sons, find that things may be better in paradise than back home.

Last winter, I looked into vacationing in the Virgin Islands as a closer alternative to Hawaii.  I may way to revisit that plan now that Elin Hilderbrand leaves her familiar island of Nantucket and instead takes the reader to St. John in Winter in Paradise, the first part of a trilogy.  She sets up a mystery and a whole host of potential romances, which I’m sure will get resolved in the next two chapters, which I hope to read soon.