Grace, the Sea Crest town historian, discovered a handwritten note from Robert Louis Stevenson in the cornerstone of the Sea Crest Lighthouse. She needs to fly to Tahiti to see if they found the lost locket of her ancestor in the cornerstone of the Venus Pointe Lighthouse. It might prove her family is related to Captain James Cook. Grace Cook’s family has a beautiful orphan key with aquamarine jewels that match the description and never open anything.

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Joe is stunned when Grace flies halfway around the world to Tahiti without him. He recognized that he was in love with her about the same time he heard Grace had taken a sightseeing flight on a seaplane with a complete stranger named Philip. The handsome pilot looked like Antonio Banderas, played world cup soccer, and had disappeared with Grace. French Polynesia has 114 islands, most of which are deserted and uninhabitable. The little yellow seaplane was spotted a couple of days later, adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with no survivors.

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Carolyn’s travel memories from Tahiti and France are woven throughout this book.