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Book: In Too Deep (Due South Book 1) by Tracey Alvarez

categories: Book, Small Town Romance, Sexy Romance, Beach Romance, Second-Chance, New Zealand, Reunion, Family, Community, Series, Contemporary Romance

Tracey Alvarez

about this book: In Too Deep is the first book in a series set on a remote New Zealand island called Stewart Island. Piper Harland is a dive cop—a highly trained diver who as part of her job brings drowning victims back to their families. She hasn't returned to her childhood home on Stewart Island for nine years since her father drowned in a diving accident. Then her estranged elder brother needs her help. For her sister and mother's sake, Piper agrees. Only it'll mean working in close proximity with Ryan 'West' Westlake again—her brother's best friend, her first lover, and the man she's never quite gotten over. Or forgiven.

The idea for In Too Deep, and in fact the whole Due South series, came about from finding a Rescue Diver book in a charity shop. The idea morphed from rescue diver to highly trained police divers, and then I thought…what if the police diver was a woman…

First and foremost, In Too Deep is a romance, but it also has strong themes of forgiveness, family, and community. Readers like me, who love small-town romances with the odd quirky character, plus a smoking-hot reunion between two old lovers, will hopefully get sucked into the Due South world.

Winner of Best First Book in the Romance Writers of New Zealand 2014 Koru Award for Excellence.

"Out of the gate with her début at full throttle, Ms. Alvarez receives a blue ribbon!" - InD'Tale Magazine