My readers wasted no time telling me they loved Thunder Point - the
sales were insane! All three original Thunder Point novels, THE WANDERER, THE NEWCOMER and THE HERO were #1! I
got the message loud and clear - they want more.
Well, it's going to be another exciting year in Thunder Point, beginning
with THE CHANCE on
February 25.
Do opposites attract? Sometimes they do. Or maybe I should say, on some issues
couples are as different as night and day. Looking at my own marriage, there
are times my husband and I come up with the same idea at the same time - it can
be spooky. Yet on some important points we couldn't be more different. For
example, if the temperature is over 75 degrees, I melt. I like to sit up late
and read and I think I enjoy my bed most after six a.m. So who did I marry? A
guy who is bundled up in summer, goes to bed at eight p.m. and is up before the
roosters! I like the house well lit and he walks around behind me turning off
lights and turning up the temperature. But for some mysterious reason it still
works and I was married when God was a boy.
We first met Eric Gentry in THE NEWCOMER when he
discovered he had a sixteen year old daughter in Thunder Point. He found a way
to be closer, a chance to get to know her better, when he bought the only
service station in town. After a screwed up youth, a dark past he's worked hard
to overcome, he feels like the luckiest man in town to have this second chance.
Eric's opportunity for second chances are multiplying. There's a woman new to
town and she immediately gets his attention. Laine Carrington has chosen
Thunder Point as a nice, quiet place to rehab her shoulder after surgery. Eric
can't help but notice her - she's so beautiful, so sassy, so funny. So sexy.
The chemistry between them is irrefutable and neither of them can deny it.
Small problem - they have nothing in common. Less than nothing! She's an FBI
agent whose shoulder injury came from being shot on the job. And he's an an
ex-con. If these two are going to fall in love, they have to take a big chance.
When a man and a woman decide they can make it together in spite of serious
differences, there are sparks. Make that fireworks.
And while we're on the
subject of second chances, there's another book coming your way soon that
examines a group of
FOUR
FRIENDS who all need to re-tool their lives and reach for a new
beginning. Gerri, Andy, Sonja and BJ are friends and neighbors and it's almost
epidemic when their personal lives begin to fall apart, all at the same time.
These are smart, devoted, loyal women who have depended on their families and
each other to get through the tough stuff, but this spring and summer is a
tsunami of issues that leave them grasping for purchase. And desperate for answers.
FOUR FRIENDS is
women's fiction, a girlfriend book in the tradition of THE HOUSE ON OLIVE STREET
and A SUMMER IN SONOMA.
Those of you who know me know that I love my series and also really dig into
women's fiction.
I'm looking forward to these new stories and I hope you'll join me. While I was
writing I made it my mission to talk to every one of you. Welcome back to my world.
8 comments posted.
Both of your books sound amazing, and I'll be sure to put them on my TBR list!! Thank you for coming today and giving a little extra background about your upcoming books!! I always enjoy reading these stories. They give me a chance to know the Author a little better, too, and get to know a piece of what goes into their writing.
(Peggy Roberson 11:54am February 26, 2014)
Loving the Thunder Point series... Just wish they came out closer together :) Already finished The Chance and ready for the next one!
(Summer Sharp 10:16pm February 26, 2014)
I just love your books!! I just got my copy of The Chance and am anxious to get started on it!!
(Betty Hamilton 2:00am February 27, 2014)