Tassy Morgan's Bluff: A Novel [Paperback]

A wonderfully funny and warm introduction to the quirky inhabitants of a small town located on the breathtakingly scenic northern tip of California.

San Andreas, California. It may be a quaint town, but its residents have high hopes for its future as a tourist destination. There's Bill the Fixer, the handyman who sidelines in chain-saw sculpted redwood totem poles; real estate agent Margaret Nam, who plans to make a mint rehabbing beach shacks; and Jimi, the well-to-do hairstylist whose chair is the epicenter of town gossip. Amid their town's growing pains, widower Lincoln Ellis and Tassy Morgan, a recently divorced painter, meet and-much to their surprise-sparks begin to fly.

Beautifully written and infused with sly humor, Tassy Morgan's Bluff will welcome readers of all ages to a place they'll want to visit again and again.

INTRODUCTION

San Andreas, California is a tiny crabbing port on the Redwood Coast, an hour south of Oregon. Though the country around it is spectacular, the town itself is unremarkable, except for its wonderfully quirky citizens. Ex-Hollywood lawyer Linc Ellis moved here to help his wife open a posh B and B; but when she died very suddenly, she left him to mourn in a mansion full of empty rooms. Painter Tassy Morgan got only a shack above the beach when her ex-husband discarded her. Linc and Tassy live just across the road but between his numbed isolation and her fierce concentration on her art, they haven't even met—yet.

But real estate hustler Margaret Nam wants to turn this modest town into a quaint seaside resort, and step one is dealing with Tassy's disreputable shack. Her campaign brings Linc and Tassy together and to their mutual surprise, they strike sparks. The more local opposition Tassy faces, the closer she and Linc edge toward unexpected love.

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