Review: Wonderful, Sexy, Emotional
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
“In Too Deep” is a wonderful love story set on a tiny island off the coast of New Zealand.  Piper Harland had fled the island after the death of her father, a death she feels partially responsible for. Her father died in a diving accident, while Piper was his dive companion. Now, nine years later, she is a cop as well as the only woman on the New Zealand National Dive Squad. She trained hard for this job and is often in the position of having to locate a person who was either injured or who has died in a diving accident.  She has no desire to return home, to be reminded of the heartbreak that still lies just under the surface of her life.  Unfortunately, because of her brother’s broken leg and his floundering business, she needs to return…for only six weeks. What she also doesn’t need and doesn’t want is to run into old flame Ryan “West” Westlake. But of course, what you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. Not only does she run into West, she ends up living in one of the rooms of his house and working at the restaurant he manages.  Both Piper and West have a lot of old baggage to sort out, as they are forced together to help her brother.I loved the characters in this book and the writer brings the island and the ocean alive as she tells the story of Piper, West and the other Harland family members. This story tugged at my heart.  I will certainly be looking for the next Tracey Alvarez book.