The First Last Dive
0 Comment / May 15, 2014

Sunlounger Stories 2
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Story Synopsis:

On the Caribbean paradise island of Grand Cayman Tess dives deep to reclaim a lost love…

Sneak peek of story:

The dive boats always left early. As soon as the sun’s fingers scraped the sky, the moon had faded away and soft pink light blushed the sand, the morning stillness was broken by the clanging of cylinders and calling of excited voices.

The cicada’s song, as much the backing track to any night’s sleep here as the purr of air conditioning and the sighing of wind in Casuarina trees, was replaced by the thrum of engines and thump of dive gear being hurled onto the decks. Although the blinds were closed stripes of bright sunlight tigered the white walls declaring that it was time to rise and head out to the reef just as clearly as the singsong Caribbean tones below the window.

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Tell us about the location you chose for your SUNLOUNGER 2 story… I chose Grand Cayman – one bleak January day, the kind when the wind is howling and the rain blowing horizontally down the street, I made the fatal mistake of searching for teaching jobs in the Caribbean. As you do!  Within minutes I had found a vacancy at a school in beautiful Grand Cayman and, a couple of Google clicks later, I was looking at icing sugar sand beaches, gin clear blue sea and the sort of golden sunshine I could only dream about during an English winter.  One application, several flights and five thousand miles later, and here I am living in the wonderful Caribbean.  Life truly can be stranger than fiction.  Setting my Sunlounger 2 story here was a no brainer and I enjoyed writing every word.  The dive hotel, the sea and the intense heat in Tess’s story is now a part of my story too.  Watch this space for my summer novella, THE LITTLE CARIBBEAN CAFE, set on Cayman!

Have your books featured any exotic destinations? In ELLIE ANDREWS HAS SECOND THOUGHTS my heroine travels to Oahu, in the Hawaiian islands. She holidays in Honolulu on Waikiki Beach. I visited Honolulu a while back and I adored it!

If you could live anywhere in the world… I love the Caribbean! I can’t imagine living anywhere better than Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman with its icing sugar sand and clear turquoise water! Add to that the weather, kind Caymanians and stunning wildlife – what more could you want?

Destination you’ve returned to the most times? It has to the Med. I love Italy and have visited Sorrento and Positano several times. Pasta, ice cream and hot guys on scooters!

Favourite cuisine from around the world? Seafood! I adore mussels.

Favourite holiday cocktail? I could drink buckets of Piña Colada. It isn’t that alcoholic either…honestly!

What was your best and worst holiday romance? Best – meeting my Hawaiian boyfriend when I was seventeen. Worst – the awful holiday I had in Mexico with my ex-husband. I filed for divorce when I got home!



Saberton, Ruth

Sunlounger Contributing Author

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Author Bio

Ruth is the Amazon top ten best-selling author of WEIGHT TIL CHRISTMAS, REARRANGED, KATY CARTER WANTS A HERO, ELLIE ANDREWS HAS SECOND THOUGHTS and AMBER SCOTT IS STARTING OVER. She also writes commercial women’s fiction under the pen names Jessica Fox, Lucy Hepburn and Georgie Carter.

Ruth has been shortlisted for the RNA’s prestigious ‘Romantic Comedy of the Year’ award.

Born and raised in the UK, Ruth is currently living in the Caribbean, on the beautiful island of Grand Cayman.

Her latest novel, ESCAPE FOR THE SUMMER, is out now with Notting Hill Press.

Ruth Saberton is represented by the Eve White Literary Agency (www.evewhite.co.uk).