Blog Tour Review: Tides of Passion – Tracy Sumner

Tides of Passion by Tracy Sumner
Series:  Seaswept Seduction #2
Release Date:  October 17, 2011
Publisher:  Tracy Sumner
Source:  Goddess Fish Promotions
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An Unconventional Woman

Spirited Savannah Conner is passionately committed to stamping out social injustice. Yet when she arrives in the seaside town of Pilot Isle, North Carolina, ready to take up a new cause, she quickly finds herself on the outs with the town constable. Zachariah Garrett is the most arrogant, infuriating, maddeningly attractive man it’s ever been her misfortune to meet. And suddenly, Savannah is fighting a whole new battle – this one against her own yearning for a man who is impossible to resist.

An Uncompromising Man

Ever since his wife’s death two years ago, Zachariah Garrett has dedicated his life to keeping the peace. So when he sees the pretty newcomer atop a wobbly wooden crate stirring up the crowd, he doesn’t hesistate to haul her off to jail. But Savannah Connor isn’t any ordinary law-breaker. She’s a beguiling beauty with the power to awaken emotions he thought he’s never feel again, and the tenderness to help him forget his fears…and risk his heart once more.

Reviewer’s Thoughts:
When I read Tides of Love I didn’t think there was anything more to Constable Zach Garrett than what we saw.  Come to find out, he’s not a man you can take at face value.

His wife died two years prior, leaving him to raise their small son and stew in the guilt that he wasn’t able to save her or their unborn child.  He’s decided that he will never marry again and he won’t have any more children, because that is the only way he can protect himself.  So he goes along with his days, keeping the good people of Pilot Isle in check and ensuring his fellow seamen are safe along the shores.

Enter Savannah Conner.

Savannah, best friend to the newly married Elle Garrett, comes to Pilot Isle to help out Elle and run her school.  But even on this small island she can’t stop her passion for ensuring equality for everyone.  She immediately steps on toes and that puts her directly in Constable Garrett’s path.

I loved Savannah and Zach.  I loved it when they fought and really loved it when they took their “fighting” to the bedroom.  They were both passionate people, but only Savannah let that passion flow through every day life.  She fought for what she believed in, she said what was on her mind and pretty much did what she wanted.  Of course, she also fought the passion she was feeling for Zach as nothing more than lust, but at least she didn’t hold her passion in, for anything in her life, but went with it.

The same could not be said for Zach.  Zach is a passionate guy…for a lot of things, not Savannah.  But when he came back to Pilot Isle to a dying mother and two younger brothers to raise, he put his passions aside for family.  When the girl he was courting, assumed marriage…he did that.  When she was horrified of his passion in bed, he threw that passion out the window.  It wasn’t until Savannah, who unwittingly knocked the lid off his passion, that Zach really started living his life.

I enjoyed this book so much more than the first book in the series.  Savannah and Zach made the entire book.  Their fighting, their barbs, their wit with each other just made the entire storyline.  They were a couple you could watch like a tennis match and not get bored.  A definite must read to this series, if for nothing else than for Savannah and Zach themselves.