by Chris Gardner
4.8 stars – 12 Reviews
Everyday price: $3.99
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
Finn Cummings is a walking contradiction: experienced deep-sea captain without a boat; domestic-abuse counselor with a hair-trigger temper; loved by the gorgeous multi-millionaire owner of Heaven Scent, a 58-foot Buddy Davis-designed sport-fishing yacht, yet unable to free himself from the clutches of Jeena Sterling, a sexual predator who shows up in his bed, dripping wet and wearing a mermaid costume. Finn’s shaky hold on what should be an easy-going life in the Florida Keys totally unravels when Jeena and her brother Billy steal Finn’s not-so-secret cash retirement fund, along with the stashes of two other local captains, all of whom have made love to the same “mermaid,” and can’t get over it any better than Finn.
Below the surface of the ocean, a giant hammerhead shark cruises toward a rendezvous with more than one of the characters, and a few 1000-pound blue marlin unintentionally become participants in a tournament with a winner-takes-all purse worth a cool $1,500,000.
From the Florida Keys, to the island of San Salvador, Grand Bahamas, and beneath the ocean in between, Lip Hooked is a wild adventure of excitement, danger, and crisscrossing double-crosses that keep readers guessing.
★★★★★ “A thrilling action-adventure story that takes the reader from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas and everywhere in between. Finn knows Jeena, a sexual predator, is no good. But when she shows up in her mermaid costume, he just can’t resist her. Things take a turn for the worse when Jeena and her brother Billy steal Finn’s retirement fund. He isn’t the only one to lose cash, either. . . . Gardner did such an excellent job of immersing the reader in this world of oceans and fishing, and yacht sand money.” Anna Smith, Fiction Reviewer