Wild Tropics: Christmas Key Book Two

Christmas Key is ready for its close-up. The islanders are not.

Holly Baxter has finally done it.

A hit reality show is coming to film on Christmas Key, and this could be exactly what her tiny tropical island needs: publicity, tourists, money, and a starring role as the cutest year-round Christmas town anyone has ever seen.

There will be palm trees.

There will be twinkle lights.

There will be cameras.

There may also be a village full of retirees treating the whole thing like an invasion.

Holly is determined to make the island shine, even if she has to do it while dressed like Jane of the Jungle in the middle of a Florida heatwave. But the moment the cameras start rolling, everything gets more complicated.

Her ex-boyfriend Jake is flirting like their breakup never happened. A beautiful contestant is making eyes at him. River O’Leary—the former baseball player who swept Holly off her feet—is still very much on her mind. And Coco, Holly’s glamorous mother, has never met a power struggle she didn’t enjoy.

Christmas Key was supposed to get famous.

Instead, it might get messy.

A bright, funny tropical escape full of reality-show chaos, romantic complications, found family, nosy neighbors, holiday heat, and one tiny island that is absolutely ready to become your next fictional obsession.

Stephanie Taylor is from the Pacific Northwest. With her teenage daughter, she writes the "American Dream" series about young girls and their families who move to the United States. On her own, Stephanie writes a contemporary women's series about a fictional island called Christmas Key. Stephanie is a high school teacher who loves sushi, "The Golden Girls," Depeche Mode, orchids, and coffee. She's been playing the same set of numbers in the Florida lottery since 1997.