Escape to Jekyll Island - Gem of the Golden Isles Series Book One

Twenty-nine-year-old destination wedding planner Tally Davis lost her home, her job, and her boyfriend in one fell swoop when Hurricane Maria hit Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, as a Category 5 storm. After she’s finally evacuated, she goes home to Jekyll Island, Georgia, to start over. There’s no wedding planning company on the island, so Tally launches Jekyll Weddings and immediately starts booking clients. But not everyone is happy that Tally is home or wants her to succeed. She’s unknowingly kicked a hornet’s nest by reconnecting with a childhood friend. Will a 10-year-old grudge ruin her first big wedding on Jekyll Island?

The author, Sandy Malone, is best known for starring in TLC's reality TV show "Wedding Island" and writing hundreds of wedding advice columns that were published in BRIDES, WeddingWire, and HuffPost. She wrote a DIY wedding planning book in 2016 that was traditionally published, and she released her new fiction series - Gem of the Golden Isles - in April 2024. She has also ghostwritten books for well-known reality TV stars (including a Real Housewife). Most recently, she was editor of The Police Tribune.

Sandy got her journalism degree at The Ohio State University and was a reporter and editor for major news publications before she returned to her hometown of Washington, DC, for a career in public relations and government affairs. She began planning destination weddings professionally after her own was nearly a disaster, and ended up planning more than 500 weddings in the Caribbean in 11 years with her retired SWAT-commander husband.

Sandy and her husband, Bill, recently moved to Jekyll Island, Georgia, with their coonhound Sherlock. The Gem of the Golden Isles Series is her first whack at fiction.