Tamari Island by Joy Allyson 💕 Book Tour and $20 Gift Card Giveaway 💕 (Vintage Romance)

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Will she ever forget the man who makes her body and soul sing?

Emmie Prescott, the smart, pretty granddaughter of a United States senator, leaps at an offer to work on Tamari Island, a remote South Pacific island after a disastrous family exposé crushed her dream job aspirations. Her first day on the island sparks fly when she meets handsome Jack Manderly, a reporter who works on ambiguous stories for the same paper that sabotaged her career hopes. Once serious problems emerge in her new role at the designer silk plant, Emmie chooses to ignore the man whose very presence leaves her breathless.

Jack harbors a bitter sense of betrayal against Washington politicians who pressured his editor to exile him to Tamari after he linked stories of Emmie’s grandfather’s alleged activities while posted in D.C. His new assignment, tracking rumors in Southeast Asia years after the Vietnam ceasefire, is increasingly perilous. Embroiled in a dangerous mission where love and sacrifice can’t coexist, Jack strives to erase Emmie from his mind.

Despite their intentions and forced proximity, Emmie and Jack’s attraction deepen as alarming incidents occur around the island. Amidst the swirling chaos, Tamari Island deals her own hand. Will Emmie leverage her fashion connections and escape to Paris or go home and grow her political roots? And will she ever forget the man who makes her body and soul sing?

Another wave crashed onto the shore, touching the tips of her running shoes. A crab scampered sideways into the water. She breathed in again. Unblinking, she stared over the sapphire-blue Pacific waters. No, these gentle waves weren’t the ones she hoped to experience in the Caribbean weeks ago.

She kicked her foot in the sand. That dream shattered. What did it matter if you were the math brain of the family? Qualifications be damned if your own mother wanted to join the delegation for a goodwill commission. Two members from the same family on the auditing team would reek of nepotism. Saltwater spray splashed her face; she wiped the droplets from her eyes. Instead of serving on a humanitarian mission in Central America, she was here, bringing her mathematical gifts to tiny Tamari Island thousands of miles away from anywhere. A minuscule dot on the map of the Marianna Islands chain in the South Pacific.

She dug one heel into the shoreline. A second opportunity arose on this island, and she was determined to seize it. She breathed in deeply. Not what I planned, definitely challenging, but…I like problems I can solve.

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As the daughter of a United States military officer, Joy Allyson grew up with a deep appreciation of history and a love of travel. A former teacher-turned-writer, she has an unquenchable thirst for historical romances in her reading choices and loves inserting historical nuggets in all her romances. Her favorite characters–are rebel heroines and salvageable scoundrels. She believes the best romances are the ones you want to read over and over again.

Whiskey Love, her debut novel, was selected as a 2023 Killer Nashville Best Historical Silver Falchion Award Finalist. Whiskey Secrets was chosen as a Top Pick for the 2024 Silver Falchion Awards. She has just published her third novel, Tamari Island, which has a South Pacific Island setting, and is currently writing another story to complete her Whiskey Love Trilogy.

Joy loves classic movies, chocolate, coffee, cards, and carbs. She and her husband call the beautiful hills of Tennessee home, and her two daughters and six grandchildren are nearby.