<i>Welcome to Superiore Bay, Maine, your little slice of heaven on the coast. Come visit us for the best small-town gossip, all the wine you can drink, and wild horses. Once you&rsquo;re here, you&rsquo;ll never want to leave.</i><br /><br /><br /><i>They&rsquo;re strangers&hellip;<br />&hellip;nothing more.</i><br /><br />Leyla Priestly observes life rather than participating in it. As an award-winning photo journalist, she travels the world, seeing many things others refuse to acknowledge. It&rsquo;s her dream, to bring light to darkness and actually make a difference.<br />But it comes at a cost.<br />When a particularly heartbreaking mission leaves her an emotional wreck, her boss orders her to either take time off or accept an easy assignment.<br />A puff piece. Leyla doesn&rsquo;t do puff pieces. Or vacations. So she chooses the job and finds herself headed to a small coastal town where the people are too friendly&mdash;a wee bit nosey&mdash;and the rugged, reclusive veterinarians far too good looking.<br />Conrad Ashford, the wayward son of the wealthy Ashford family, has forsaken everything expected of him to run the Corolla Wild Horse Sanctuary situated on a small island across the bay.<br />And he is her assignment.<br />Or rather, his horses are.<br />As Leyla spends time at the sanctuary, despite Conrad&rsquo;s less than warm welcome, she realizes the horses might not be the real story behind this island oasis.<br />Because here is a man who hides his heart deep within the wild sandy shores, and she&rsquo;s determined to reveal it in the images she captures.<br />Leyla has a life in the city and a difficult job she&rsquo;s eager to get back to. But she might learn that sometimes one can make the biggest difference right where they are.<br /><br /><i>Come to Superiore Bay for an escape into this heartwarming, small town romance with beautiful sunrises, lovable town-gossips, a complicated love story, and a herd of wild horses who will steal your heart.<br /><br />The Island Sanctuary is the book three in the Maine Mornings series. It&rsquo;s a standalone story.</i><br />&nbsp;