Sandy Malone, Author and former TLC Reality Star, Rolls Out Splashy New Beach-Read Covers for the Gem of the Golden Isles Series
Have you heard about Sandy Malone’s fiction series based on Jekyll Island? The former wedding planner’s critically-acclaimed series based on Jekyll Island, Georgia, is being relaunched Labor Day weekend, complete with dazzling new covers and a new publishing format that her readers will love.
The new look of the “Gem of the Golden Isles” series will continue for “Under the Oaks,” a crossover series, that will be released in 2027.
In her first series, Sandy has taken all of the crazy that she saw planning more than 500 real weddings and fictionalized it to protect her guilty clients in a romantic comedy series about falling in love with a law enforcement officer. There is a mystery to unravel in every book, almost as if there’s a dark cloud over the main character.
Twenty-nine-year-old destination wedding planner Tally Davis lost her home, her job, and her boyfriend in one fell swoop when Hurricane Maria hit Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, as a Category 5 storm. After she’s finally evacuated, she goes home to Jekyll Island, Georgia, to start over. There’s no wedding planning company on the island, so Tally launches Jekyll Weddings and immediately starts booking clients. But not everyone is happy that Tally is home or wants her to succeed. She’s unknowingly kicked a hornet’s nest by reconnecting with a childhood friend. Will a 10-year-old grudge ruin her first big wedding on Jekyll Island?
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About The Series:
When a young Caribbean wedding planner loses her home and job in Hurricane Maria, she tries to start over where she grew up on Jekyll Island, the gem of Georgia’s Golden Isles. While she’s trying to making her wedding planning company work, she falls in love with a state trooper who may have been “the one that got away.” But her return to Jekyll unknowingly kicks a hornet’s nest and there are people who don’t want her to stay and be a success. It will take more than good event planning skills to overcome the evil that’s headed her way.
“Treasure on Jekyll,” Gem of the Golden Isles Series Book Three, won a 2025 International Impact Book Award for Women’s Fiction – Mystery/Suspense.
Check out some of the reviews of the Gem of the Golden Isles Series:
“Sandy Malone is to Jekyll Island what Elin Hilderbrand is to Nantucket! … If you’re a fan of Elin Hilderbrand you will definitely enjoy this series!” – BellasMom on Amazon
“This cleverly written, warmhearted story paints a picture of a woman who took a decidedly different path in life. Tally’s uplifting self-discovery is perfect for a beach vacation reader, or for anyone who wants to get lost in a good story. Stay tuned for the next two!” – Pamela Bauer Mueller, award-winning author of Splendid Isolation
“An enthralling, emotional, and heartfelt romance novel, author Sandy Malone’s “Escape to Jekyll Island” is a must-read and a great entry into the Gem of the Golden Isles series. The Author does a great job of highlighting the impact hurricanes have on communities, while bringing heart and lightheartedness through dynamic dialogue and fun story development that will keep the reader engaged and eager for the next chapter of this franchise.” – Anthony Avina Top Reviewer for Book Sirens
About Sandy:
Sandy and her husband, Bill, planned more than 500 destination weddings in 11 years in the Caribbean before Hurricane Maria. They saw the kind of crazy that nice families don’t talk about after the wedding weekend.
Now she’s released a fictional series about a wedding planner who has to start over on another island after a storm, using all the real crazy they saw at clients’ weddings. Don’t worry, it’s fictionalized to protect the guilty!
Sandy is an established expert on destination weddings and has authored hundreds of articles published on revered wedding sites such as BRIDES, WeddingWire, and the HuffPost’s Wedding page. She also had a podcast for several years called “Wedding Reality Check with Sandy Malone.”
Sandy wrote a DIY wedding planning guide called “How to Plan Your Own Destination Wedding: Tips from An Experienced Professional” published by Skyhorse Publishing in 2016. She also ghostwrote two other books for well known reality TV stars (including a Housewife).
Sandy and Bill starred in TLC’s reality TV show “Wedding Island” about their business on Vieques, Puerto Rico.
After she got a degree in journalism at THE Ohio State University, Sandy began her career Campaigns & Elections Magazine and rose to Managing Editor. Sandy went on to write the Politics.Net column for the Wall Street Journal. Most recently Sandy was Editor in Chief of Blue Lives Matter/The Police Tribune. She and her husband (a retired SWAT commander) live on Jekyll Island, Georgia, with their coonhound, Sherlock. They are both native Washingtonians.
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