Mahalo, My Love: A Novel

When beautiful, newly-orphaned Laelani Winton returns home to Hawai`i with her maid-companion, Amy Hawkins in 1892, they capture everyone€™s attention and hearts. Handsome Texan, Clifton Davis, has become the island€™s “water-wizard,” drilling artesian wells that pour life into the parched plantation lands. He is enchanted by Laelani€“but he is an American, and American sugar barons are threatening to take the Islands from Queen Liliu`okalani to increase their profits. Keoni, who bears a strong resemblance to King Kamehameha the Great, is a member of the Hawai`ian Legislature caught up in the battle with the sugar barons. Everyone, including Keoni, thinks he is destined to marry Laelani€“until he catches sight of flame-haired Amy, so like an English version of the goddess Pele! Against the tensions of a nation being stolen away, this double romance will sweep you off to Paradise as it was more than a century ago. Join Laelani and Amy as they discover the beauty of the l