Carolina Isle

Ariel and Sara are cousins who have written to each other for years and look exactly alike. They meet in person for the first time in their twenties, and the meeting gives them an idea: they will trade places and live each other's lives.

Ariel is a Southern belle with her heart set on one man, who has no idea she exists. Sara has grown up in hard circumstances and wants a taste of the comfortable life that has always been out of her reach. The swap gives each of them a chance at what she wants.

The exchange plays out in Arundel, a pretty small town in North Carolina. What begins as a high-spirited prank stirs up more than either cousin expects, and the town is soon caught up in scandal and strong feeling.

Dangers start closing in on the new lives the two have built. Old fears, buried secrets and betrayals come to the surface as the borrowed identities are tested. The book is a Southern small-town story with a mistaken-identity plot, romantic hopes on both sides and a rising sense of threat.