When one feels the push to live everyday like a vacation.
Malea always told herself, if live in Ohio ever became mundane and oppresive, then she'd pack two suitcases and move to Hawaii. She'd save herself, by living life by the simplest pleasures.

Malea arrives on the Big Island and takes an apartment in Hilo. She lands a job with conservation biologist, Koa Malino and travels to each island monitoring land errosion around waterfalls.

The first novel in the author's series takes you to each Hawaiian Island.
The following novels are an adventure romance series of each island in current time.