An Island in the Sun

by Cassandra Barnes

Asia Reynolds, a documentary film maker looks for love in the middle of chaos. She lives in heaven, a picturesque town on the Mississippi river, sparkling countryside, soaring hawks and eagles and more action than she could wish for. Her forensic research skills are in demand to uncover the perpetrators of an international political tangle involving an assassination - and another, more local problem involving a murderous gay love triangle.
Then, she meets Jasmine - a young hippie artisan and her known world flips around.

422 pages, Paperback

Published March 2, 2019

About the author

Cassandra Barnes has traveled all over the United States and lived in many places in this country: Alaska, Los Angeles, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Boston, Cambridge, western Massachusetts and a few other places, including some long-standing, well-organized communes.

She has been writing since childhood and loves the gay and lesbian community. We are amazing. She graduated from Boston University magna cum laude and attended Harvard for graduate school.

She now lives in the northern Maine forest overlooking New Brunswick.

She enjoys using the landscapes in the special places she has lived and including gay community politics in her lesbian novels. Welcome to my world!

Reviews

[Diane (IF U'RE PRIVATE, PLEASE SKIP ME!!!) Wallace]

**'Writers must ask themselves what is the core of any matter that they wish to communicate to readers..Then remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition in your stories..'

Okay read!
Nice mystery but questionable coupledom storyline -- no chemistry...

[Cassandra Barnes]

A fast-paced, complex, lesbian international intrigue-romance. Hot, cold and amazing. Set deep inside of a real-time area near a national wildlife reserve. This book will take you by barge to Sweden by way of the Scottish coast. Hold onto your hats and travel fast.......with love. Always with love!

[Sabrina Bradley]

Received a free copy from the author for an honest review.... This author has done it again... I'm not usually one to like mystery type books but this one was an exception... It captured my attention and held it throughout the book... The romantic emotions were amazingly vibrant between the couples..... Cannot wait to lose myself in her next books...

[Gloria Gherman]

One of the best lgbt books I've read thus far. Looking forward to reading the sequel

[Frances Bell]

Good book

Very good book interesting characters romance and mystery two of my best subjects to read. I recommend this book a nice weekend book

[Susan]

Outstanding!

This is a very well written book complete with well developed characters, intrigues, murders, some love, and more. It's an excellent choice for your must read list.

[Elizabeth]

This book is really stupid it had so much potential, lesbians, a murder mystery, a dog but there's way too much waffling on, and also you can't tell if someone is gay if they have a limp wrist and a lisp that's just complete utter rubbish. I know a lot of queer people and none have a lisp and the limp wrist thing is also false, I was almost enjoying this book until then, there's not enough books out there with lesbians, sadly this is not a good book.