A quintessential summer read. Marie Claire A warm and wonderfully vivid novel about taking
second chances in life and in the sea One summer day on the beach in Florida two extraordinary
things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First she is kissed by Daniel the boy of her dreams. Then
she is bitten by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later Maeve has thrown herself into her work
as a world-traveling marine biologist discovering more about the minds of misunderstood sharks.
But when Maeve returns home to the legendarily charming and eccentric Hotel of the Muses where
she was raised by her grandmother she finds more than just the blood orange sunsets and key
lime pies she s missed waiting for her. While Maeve has always been fearless in the water on
land she is indecisive. A chance meeting on the beach with a plucky irresistible little girl
who is just as fascinated by the ocean as Maeve was growing up leaves her at a crossroads:
Should she re-kindle her romance with Daniel the first love she left behind when she dove into
her work? Or indulge in a new romance with her colleague Nicholas who turns up in her
hometown to investigate an illegal shark-finning operation? Set against the intoxicating
backdrop of palm trees calypso bands and perfect ocean views The Shark Club is a story of
the mysterious passions of one woman s life: her first love and new love the sea and sharks
that inhabit it.
