ISLAND LUCK
Paradise isn’t always what it seems
Everything comes with a price—
Sydney Miller has always been unlucky. Drowning in grief, vodka, and the wreckage of her own life, she’s fired on her 33rd birthday—the same day she discovers she’s inherited her grandmother’s land on Maui. The inheritance should be a miracle. Instead, it comes with a quarter-million dollars in back taxes and a cryptic warning in her grandmother’s will.
Her grandmother Lana’s diary may hold the answers—but the secrets inside reach back seventy years, to a New Year’s Eve in 1955, when seventeen-year-old Lana’s world shattered. What happened that night has been buried ever since, and powerful people want it to stay that way.
As Sydney races to save the land from auction, she realizes she’s not just fighting for property—she’s fighting to break a curse that’s haunted three generations of women. The land remembers. And it’s not done taking its toll.
Island Luck is a dual-timeline thriller an upmarket thriller told through alternating points of view, complete at 90,000 words. It combines the atmospheric prose of Emma Cline's THE GUEST with the multigenerational female storytelling and Hawaiian cultural depth of Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes' HULA, following complex protagonists unraveling dark secrets while discovering who they are through grief, reckoning with trauma, and embracing love.
Sydney Miller is drowning—in grief, vodka, and the wreckage of her own life.
