Robert H Cherny

Tall girls should stick together. Love arrives when you stop looking for it. One of the widows, a teleprompter operator, impresses one of her clients so much that he returns a year later to find her. He brings his widowed sister and her daughter. The daughter sets her mother up with the teleprompter operator's single brother, a botanist who spends much of his life on an airboat in the Florida swamps researching alien invasives and endangered plants.
Other romances also blossom. Both of the guys have secrets. The botanist has friends and associates who hide in the swamp, who rely on him for support as he relies on them for information. The other guy, who started all this, has worked with espionage agencies, and while he is determined to leave the past behind, it returns to drag him into action again. A hurricane upends everything, and rescues become the order of the day.