Story…Six Summer Tales of Sweet Romance that bring you the very best in
Historical, Contemporary and Fantasy Romance. Sarah Daley, Carol Malone, Kathy
Bosman, Debby Lee, Robyn Echols, and Lisa Watson weave stories of long days, sultry
nights, sun-kissed beaches and sweet romance
A Summer of Stars:
Graham has escaped to her summer getaway to regain her perspective and her
health.? Zane Davidson has taken refuge
in the lovely seaside community, welcoming the healing balm of the salty sea
air and his childhood home to mend his wounds.
They aren’t looking for love, but their attraction is too explosive to
ignore.? Against the backdrop of starry
nights and sultry kisses, they come to realize that even love may not be enough
to save them from the angry storm of his past that threatens to destroy their
dreams!
Drowning Sandy:

Debby Lee
Debby Lee was raised in the cozy little town of Toledo, Washington. She has been writing since she was a small child and has written several novels, but never forgets home.
The Northwest Christian Writers Association and Romance Writers of America are two organizations Debby enjoys being a part of. Publications, thus far, include a series of short stories titled The Butterfly Fairytales Collection, and a novella with Barbour Publishing.
As a self-professed nature lover, and an avid listener to 1960s folk music, Debby can’t help but feel like a hippie child who wasn’t born soon enough to attend Woodstock. She wishes she could run barefoot all year long, but often does anyway in grass and on beaches in her hamlet that is the cold and rainy southwest Washington.
During the football season, Debby cheers on the Seattle Seahawks along with legions of other devoted fans. She’s also filled with wanderlust and dreams of visiting Denmark, Italy, and Morocco some day.
Lisa Watson
A native of Washington D.C., Lisa Watson writes
multicultural novels with engaging storylines, strong, fun characters
with universal appeal. Lisa’s Match Broker series, introduced readers
to Love Contract, and matchmaking guru, Norma Jean Anderson, aka The
Love Broker. Book two in the series, Her Heart’s Desire, was a #1 on
Amazon’s Bestseller list, and was listed as one of 2014’s Top 25 Books
of the Summer, and Top 50 Best Reads. Book three, Love by Design was #2
on the Amazon Bestseller list.
Her latest story is a Sweet
Romance. A Summer of Stars, is one of the novellas in the Summer Hearts
Compilation. This exciting new collection featuring five additional
authors, and their sweet, beach-themed romances, will be released May
2015.
Lisa works at a technology consulting firm, is the
co-publicist for RT BookReview Magazine’s annual RT Booklovers
Conventions, and host for Reader’s Entertainment Radio show.
Married
for nineteen years, with two teenagers, and a Maltipoo, Brinkley, Lisa
lives outside Raleigh, NC and is avidly working on a Sweet Romance, and
her next series. ?
Sarah lives in Arizona with her best friend and husband, Chris, their adorable monster child, and neurotic dog.
At the age of six, she became a reading machine. Devouring everything she could possibly get her hands on. In high school she almost failed English three times because of her detest for writing book reports. Today, Sarah writes whatever stories haunt her dreams, and struggles to focus on one idea at a time. When she isn’t enjoying time with her family, or writing, you will find her nose stuck in a book, or out walking and enjoying the sunshine.
Drowning Sandy is her debut novella!
Links to find out what is coming next:
Carol Malone
Award-winning author Carol Malone has successfully combined her three passions – romance, sports, and writing in her two highly-rated books, Fight Card Romance: Ladies Night, and Ladies Night Christmas sequel. She was the first woman to write a romance for the all-male dominated genre. Carol invites her readers to scramble into a front row seat for a thrill-ride of suspense, sports, and romance. If not hammering out new tales, Carol’s loves reading, sports, and hanging with her author husband on the coast of California.
homeschools her three kids, so in between unsuccessfully explaining the
difference between subject and predicate or how to divide fractions, she enters
an imaginary world of troubled and passionate characters whose stories take
over the page. Kathy lives in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, where the summers
are hot, the winters cool, and bugs thrive. Her first published novel, Wedding
Gown Girl, came out in 2012 with Astraea Press. She belongs to the Romance
Writers of South Africa Group (ROSA) which has been her greatest support and
inspiration the last few years.
since she was in junior high school. By choice, she spent most of her evening
hours in her “dungeon”, as her mother called her downstairs bedroom,
writing stories, only joining her family in front of the television upstairs
when her favorite programs were playing. She has spent hours learning and
teaching family history topics, and focuses on history from a genealogist’s perspective
of seeking out the details of everyday life in the past. Several of her family
history articles have been published in genealogy magazines.
in California near the “Gateway to Yosemite” and has fun researching and
writing the books that she hopes will interest and entertain her readers. She
writes Young Adult/New Adult and contemporary fiction under Robyn Echols and
adult historical romance under her pen name, Zina Abbott.
together novel plots, she stays busy piecing together quilt blocks.
RM Alexander is an author of clean romances that are sometimes contemporary, sometimes paranormal or suspense, but are always ruled by the heart of true romance.
With characters who look for love in the wrong places and are victims or the worse kinds of betrayal while fighting for what they want and believe in, RM’s novels promise a good read with unexpected twists and turns.
When she’s not writing, RM is spending time with her husband and two small children in Michigan. She loves to travel, especially to Walt Disney World, and can often be found on Twitter or Facebook chatting with other authors and readers.
GIVEAWAY!!!
Thanks so much for hosting us today, Inspired Kathy! It was a great learning experience for Carol, Robyn, Sarah, Kathy, Debby and I to get together and create a compilation that had a little something for everyone. Summer is the perfect time to start a great romance, and we hope your readers will agree!
Happy Reading!
Lisa ??
Supposed to comment on the blog about best Summer, Mine was the Summer of 1977!!
The best summer love story I have read was a fan fiction, unfortunately I don’t remember the name ??