Barbara Bayley

Don't Take It Personally Barbara Bayley

In the small beachside town of Banana Bay, Florida, reluctant socialite Maya Porter is having a very bad day. It's the one-year anniversary of her husband Franklin's disappearance in the Atlantic when his boat blew up and she's the only one believing his story that he's on a secret mission for the government as she encounters his ex-girlfriend who sports a black eye, the wrong color of toenail polish, a bowling alley accident, a ditsy dame named Sherrye and a priest who is romantically interested in her only daughter as Maya wrestles with the problem of freeing a peregrine falcon from a bird sanctuary--not to mention the tainted cracked crab salad, the mute bodyguard and the first edition copy of "Huckleberry Finn" in the toilet. And what did the Ringling Brothers do about the circus elephants' final burial places in Sarasota?