Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Melinda Curtis!
Writes:
Melinda Curtis always includes humor in her books. Why? Because she loves to laugh. You can get your own dose of laughter in her romcoms, especially the Summer Kisses series featuring Grandma Dotty. Dotty Summer is a widow with a bucket list and a boatload of grown grandchildren who she enjoys visiting, and not just because it gives her an opportunity to pursue her bucket list (but often because it does).
About:
Melinda Curtis writes sweet/clean romances with over 75 books published by Harlequin, 40 self-pubbed, and 5 by Forever Romance. One of her books, Dandelion Wishes, was made into an UPTV movie – Love in Harmony Valley, starring Amber Marshall. She’s married to her college sweetheart, loves her Peloton, renovating homes, and slow mornings with hot coffee.
If you enjoy Hallmark movies on the lighter side, like Three Wise Men and a Baby, you’ll enjoy Every Little Kiss, especially if you enjoy:
- Fake date/relationship with a royal
- Pretend prince (oops)
- Sisters who come through when you need them
- Grandmothers who have a good heart but tell it like it is
- Christmas destination wedding (snow!)
What to expect if we’re compatible:
If we’re compatible, you’ll want to read the entire Summer Kisses series, plus my Cowboy Academy series by Harlequin, and my Sunshine Valley series – all of which are fun, yet satisfying sweet romances. If you’re looking for humor and perhaps some tears, you might try my Love in Harmony Valley romance series, which is populated with all kinds of quirky characters.
Summer Kisses #7
USA Today Bestseller Melinda Curtis delivers another installment of Summer Kisses, an irresistibly funny, fake royal identity, sweet romantic comedy featuring Grandma Dotty.
Not any fake date will do…
Maggie Summer needs a date to her sister’s wedding, preferably someone who’ll pretend to be madly in love with her, ideally a prince. Why royalty? Because her sister is marrying Maggie’s former fiance. And wonder of wonders…Maggie manages to land a blind date with a prince. If they hit it off, maybe he’ll be her Plus One for Kitty’s wedding this Christmas.
But true royalty is hard to find…
Fitzhugh Wittelsbach is the royal secretary to Prince Abernathy of Naarsland. When the prince decides to stand Maggie up on a blind date, Fitz shows up in his place. Before he realizes what’s happening, Maggie has him charmed and her grandmother Dotty has him on the invite list for an exclusive Christmas wedding. Too bad they think he’s a prince.
If you enjoy romcom movies like The Prince and Me, you’ll enjoy this full-length, sweet romantic comedy with an HEA and no cliffhangers.
Romance Contemporary [Purple Papaya, On Sale: September 20, 2024, e-Book, / eISBN: 9798324907624]
Although Melinda has lived in Georgia and Texas, she's a California girl at heart. Her earliest memories are of life on an isolated 50-acre sheep ranch in rural Sonoma County, California. Picture rolling hills covered in brown grass, a eucalyptus forest, a long gravel driveway lined with plump sheep and no sidewalks. It was a big deal to drive into town on a one-lane road in a ramshackle, bubble-fendered pickup for an ice cream.
Flash forward to this century. Melinda lives in California's hot central valley with her husband - her basketball playing college sweetheart. With three kids the couple has done the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing.
Melinda writes sweet to medium heat contemporary romances as Melinda Curtis and red hot reads as Mel Curtis. She loves writing romances about women who don't realize how strong they are until a hero comes along to show them, while capturing the wry humorous power struggle of falling in love - because, really, who lets the man have the last word?
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