She's an empath who's always prepared, but can she handle a supernatural storm of lies, temptation, and murder?
Toni Dusi grew up knowing everyone's business and everyone knowing hers because in Moonstone Cove, you can't pass a restaurant, farm, or winery that doesn't have at least one Dusi involved. Despite her family, Toni has managed to carve out a private niche for herself. She has a car shop she loves, a country cottage all to herself, and has carefully avoided any long-term romantic commitments.Then fate handed Toni a shot of supernatural empathy that threw all that out the window of her prized vintage Mustang.Now she's feeling the mood swings of everyone from her parts guy to her reluctant crush to her second cousin going through a messy divorce. She's losing her temper, she's crying a river, and she's definitely giving in to temptation.But when the body of a longtime family rival turns up at her cousin's winery, Toni realizes her inconvenient feelings-magic has turned her into one heck of a lie detector. She and her new friends, Katherine and Megan, might be the only ones who can clear her cousin's name.When fate throws a final curveball in Toni's direction, will she drop everything with disastrous consequences? Or can a forty-one-year-old empath learn enough new tricks to keep the life she's built without sacrificing new happiness?Fate Actually is a paranormal women's fiction novel and the second book in the Moonstone Cove series by USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter.