Sea of Seduction has a weird start, a former surfer champ single dad doing palm reading meets an herbalist who wants to bed this hot surfer single dad that's also a bet between her and her BFF. The story does get a bit better from there as both characters are a bit angst-driven despite the relaxed facade they put up.
Dominic Cortes was once the best surfer in the world until he punched a judge and was forced to leave the surfing world in infamy. He moved to the US and settled in San Diego with his 12-year old daughter, do tarot card fortune telling for a living. His only remaining goal was to surf the ultimate wave off Cortes Bank as a tribute to his father. That plan is in tatters when a young woman, Cordelia "Coco" Bennett, blew into his life. Coco just wanted a reading at first, but there's a connection between her and Dom that even Dom's daughter Lola noticed. Coco is an herbalist that specialized in anti-aging spa treatments, and she and her partners had a bet... that Coco can bed the hot Dom before their fifth appointment, even though Dom never puts out for anyone. But Coco had a trauma she can't talk about, and can't abide Dom surfing the Cortes Bank far from support... It is very dangerous, and Coco had fallen for Dom for real. But what happens when Dom found out about the bet?
The characters are deeper than you first suspect from the initial impression of tarot card reading and herbalist. You'd think this is some sort of hippie new age characters, but that's just the surface. Both characters have deep traumas that formed a part of their psyche and it was NEVER the right time to mention such, which inevitably leads to wrong impression being formed and deeper misunderstandings... The grand gesture was good as well. All in all an enjoyable novel.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Herbalist meets surfer single dad doing palm readings, spark fly, but both are deeply scarred on the inside...
Overall Rating: 4/5
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