{"id":23246,"date":"2025-09-05T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23246"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:51:09","slug":"book-44-of-52-winter-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/book-44-of-52-winter-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 44 (of 52) &#8211; Winter In Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23247\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/winterinparadise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23247\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23247\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/winterinparadise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/winterinparadise.jpg 343w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/winterinparadise-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winter in Paradise &#8211; Elin Hilderbrand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Irene Steele thinks she has it all: a job she loves, a beautiful home, and a husband who adores her.\u00a0 However, when she gets a phone call from her husband&#8217;s mysterious employer informing her that he died in the US Virgin Islands, everything starts to fall apart.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Last winter, I looked into vacationing in the Virgin Islands as a closer alternative to Hawaii.\u00a0 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 <em>Winter in Paradise<\/em>, the first part of a trilogy.\u00a0 She sets up a mystery and a whole host of potential romances, which I&#8217;m sure will get resolved in the next two chapters, which I hope to read soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Steele thinks she has it all: a job she loves, a beautiful home, and a husband who adores her.\u00a0 However, when she gets a phone call from her husband&#8217;s mysterious employer informing her that he died in the US Virgin Islands, everything starts to fall apart.\u00a0 Along with her two sons, she travels to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10260,12134],"class_list":["post-23246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-elin-hilderbrand","tag-winter-in-paradise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23250,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23246\/revisions\/23250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}