I enjoyed the previous entry in the author’s Angel’s Bay series and was eager to read this one. Sadly, this book didn’t work for me nearly as well as the last. Once again, there are numerous plot lines, in addition to the main hero and heroine. The problem is that so little time is spent with the hero and heroine that I felt no real attachment to them and I found the jumps from one story line to the next jarring.

Isabella Silviera is on her way to Angel’s Bay to see her brother Joe, the police chief. Isabella has visions and ever since her brother sent her a necklace he found in his house, she’s sensed that he is in danger. Before she reaches town, a car runs Isabella off the road, leaving her car teetering on the edge of a cliff. Seemingly out of nowhere, a man risks his own life to rescue her. Isabella feels an instant attraction to the stranger and senses that he may be part of the reason she was drawn to Angel’s Bay.

After rescuing Isabella, Nick Hartley tries to put her out of his mind; his life is complicated enough. Nick has recently taken custody of his teenage daughter Megan after having no contact with her since she was a few years old. Nick is also dealing with his family – all actors – who are trying to rope him into redesigning the ancient Angel’s Bay theatre. As an architect, Nick is fully capable of doing the design, but he has issues with all of the drama surrounding his family that make him reluctant to take on the project.

Initially, I felt that Nick and Isabella had a lot of potential. As a fashion fan, I was fascinated that Isabella was a costume designer. I also found Nick’s troubles with his daughter to be interesting. While Nick and Isabella are each reluctant to get involved with each other, they’re thrown together constantly and this should have made for an interesting story. The problem is that too little time was spent on their story.

There were a number of secondary plots running through the book. Each time I’d become interested in Nick and Isabella’s story, the action would switch to other characters, many of whom appeared in the previous book. Unfortunately, my favorite characters from the last book either made only minor appearances or no appearance at all. I found one story in particular between Isabella’s brother and a doctor to be very frustrating.

Because so little time was spent on Isabella, I never really understand her fear of getting attached to anyone or anything. Nick’s history was more clearly explained, and I felt that Isabella’s deserved similar treatment.

This isn’t an awful book, but I found it easy to put down. While Nick and Isabella’s story is wrapped up here, a lot of other characters are left in limbo; characters I don’t care enough about to follow into the next book. Unless Nick’s daughter Megan is magically turned into a 20-something heroine, I don’t see myself making another stop in Angel’s Bay.