The Summer Garden (Chesapeake Shores)

Falling for Maddening Moira O Malley was the unexpected highlight of Luke O Brien s Dublin holiday. So when she pays a surprise visit to Chesapeake Shores, Luke is thrilled at first. A fling with this wild Irish rose is one thing, but forever? Maybe someday, but not when he s totally focused on establishing a business that will prove his mettle to his overachieving family. Given Luke s reaction, Moira has some soul-searching of her own to do. Scarred by her father s abandonment, she wonders if Luke, with his playboy past, is truly the family man she longs for. Adding to her dilemma, she s offered an amazing chance at a dream career of her own.Deep down, though, Moira knows home is the real prize, and that love can be every bit as enchanted as a summer garden.

With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. She's also especially partial to small towns, wherever they may be. A member of Novelists Inc., Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, Sherryl divides her time between her childhood summer home overlooking the Potomac River in Colonial Beach, Virginia, and her oceanfront home, with its lighthouse view, in Key Biscayne, Florida.