One Night on the Island

Cleo writes a dating column, and for her thirtieth birthday her editor sends her to a remote Irish island with an assignment built to get attention: she will marry herself. She expects a few quiet days alone in a luxury cabin.

Mack is an American with problems back home that he would rather not deal with. He has come to the same island to look into his roots and to get some room to think.

A booking mix-up has given them the same cabin for the same dates, and neither of them will back down. The weekly ferry has already left, and a storm is on its way, so they have no choice but to stay under one roof.

The book is a warm contemporary romance, and it starts as a standoff between two strangers. As the days pass, the friction eases into something closer. Cleo came for a stunt and Mack came to hide, and the open question is whether either of them wants what they came for once the storm settles.