Hot Springs Magic — Colleen Gleason

According to legend, the hot springs on Seeker's Island -- a small island resort in the Gulf of Mexico -- are magical. If you sit in them, you will obtain your heart's desire.

Teddy Mack would love the legend of the hot springs to be true -- for she's been banished to the non-wifi-equipped island in order to finish an overdue book for her publisher.

But when a surprisingly intriguing, yet nerdy microbiologist, Oscar London, ends up booked for the same small cottage, she might find herself even more distracted from her project…

Originally published as “Thrill Seeker” in the multiauthor anthology Summer on Seeker's Island (Jun 2013). Revised and reissued as Sinister Sanctuary (Aug 2018).