stepping into his domain, immersing herself in his world, had taken her off guard. How had this man so intrigued her, fully claimed her curiosity and caused her to cast aside all reason and say and do such absurd things in his presence?"

Twenty-two-year-old Georgina Wright has finally left her sheltered upbringing in New York City for an adventure to the Hawaiian Islands in 1873, yet her typical headlong ways not only endanger herself on the trip, but earn the disfavor of her traveling companion—the standoffish Dr. Joseph Livingston Jr. 

By losing her rash ways, will Georgina gain something she never expected and of far more worth—Joseph's heart?

Manuscript in editing stage. 

Releasing September 8, 2026, with Scrivenings Press!