As a romance
writer, I enjoy spending time with my daughter and her early-twenties friends.
Falling in love and the emotional ups and downs of dating are, I believe,
timeless. But contemporary life can bring different slants on matters of the
heart and I like to keep in touch. Luckily the girls have no inhibitions about
chatting with me!
The other night
we were talking about unrequited crushes.
“What about when
you’ve had a crush on someone for years and years and finally something happens
between you and the guy?” I asked.
“Never ends
well,” said one girl.
“Usually a
disappointment,” added another.
So I told them
about my new book for Harlequin Romance The
Tycoon and the Wedding Planner (out on July 1.) We met Kate Parker in my first Harlequin Romance
story The
Summer They Never Forgot and knew she’d had a huge crush on Jesse (the hero from the first
book’s brother) ever since she’d been a teenager.
When the new book
starts, Kate is reeling: she finally got to kiss Jesse and felt nothing,
absolutely nothing.
She’s now left feeling embarrassed being around Jesse and doubting her judgment
about men. So what happens when Jesse’s friend, gorgeous Sam Lancaster, arrives
in Dolphin Bay to attend the wedding Kate is organizing and Kate finds herself
attracted to him? Sam is drawn to Kate too, but both Kate and Sam have secrets
that threaten to stop them from ever getting the happy-ever-after they deserve.
Of course the
girls went home with advance copies of The Tycoon and the Wedding Planner…
Kate is
organizing a special wedding in the book and she wants everything to go right.
Do you have a wedding story to share—when things went well or things went
wrong? I’d love to hear about it!
I’m giving away
two signed copies of The Tycoon and the Wedding Planner. To be in the draw, please include your
snail mail address in your comment.
Kandy’s second Dolphin Bay story for Harlequin Romance, The
Tycoon and The Wedding Planner will be released on July 1, 2014.
Kandy Shepherd is an award-winning author of contemporary
romance and women’s fiction. She lives on a small farm in the Blue Mountains
near Sydney, Australia, with her family and a menagerie of four-legged friends.
Visit Kandy at her website
7 comments:
Kandy, it's interesting seeing how little changes between the generations in the essentials, isn't it? That Time Goes By song had it so right! So looking forward to reading THE TYCOON AND THE WEDDING PLANNER. I absolutely adored THE SUMMER THEY NEVER FORGOT!
my wedding went right
It's fabulous!
It's so true isn't it Anna? The same joys, the same heartaches. It doesn't change!
Thanks for your kind words about THE SUMMER THEY NEVER FORGOT, I hope you enjoy a trip back to Dolphin Bay for THE TYCOON AND THE WEDDING PLANNER.
Glad to hear all went well!
Thank you Keziah!
Mine went well too, although I was a little flummoxed when the best man was having people give their speeches and then turned to me for my speech - when I wasn't supposed to give one! Even though I was a very quiet 22-year-old at the time (boy, have times changed), I stood up and thanked the guests (especially my sister 2000+ miles away) for sharing the day with us, whether they lived near or far. I trembled and turned bright red, but I got through it.
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