Adam Bradstreet loves fighting fires for a big city department until a building collapse leaves him injured and feeling guilty for his partner’s death. With a five-year-old son in tow, he arrives on White Pine Island for a temporary position on the island department. He plans to recover physically and emotionally while spending time with his son. The last thing he expects is to meet someone like Samantha Phillips.
As the director of weddings and special events for her family’s Grand Hotel, Samantha sees plenty of happy endings and joyful beginnings. She just wishes true love would find her on the island. When Adam and his son steal her heart, her toughest job is convincing the damaged firefighter that he deserves a second chance at love and life.
When love won’t give up…
Grant Phillips, the director of the Grand Hotel’s outdoor recreation department, is as carefree as an island son can be until an accident sends him to the White Pine Island Medical Clinic. The island’s new physician assistant, Kelsey Adkins, treats his injury and catches his interest. Grant soon sheds his playboy image as he pursues Kelsey with relentless determination.
Kelsey has overcome a difficult past through hard work and fortitude. Although she’s building a life for herself on White Pine Island, she struggles to trust others. When Grant demands her love and trust, she resists until Grant proves to be irresistible.
Sometimes the heart hits a hole in one. Bethany Hinkle arrives at White Pine Island’s Grand Hotel for her sister’s wedding and to do a little environmental snooping. She snaps pictures of the hotel’s pristine golf course to ensure its compliance with EPA standards. Soon, she realizes that the course’s manager is as attractive as the course he so carefully protects. Ned Phillips feels the weight of family expectations squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillips Family has owned and operated the Grand Hotel for three generations. For now, he manages the hotel’s golf course and makes plans for its future—plans that could be destroyed by Bethany’s spying. He gets close to the lovely environmentalist to watch for her next move until he gets too close to let her go.
What happens when you fall in love with your best friend just when it’s too late? All her life, Ellen Phillips has loved working for her family’s Grand Hotel on White Pine Island. Flying the hotel’s airplane and piloting the island ferryboat while knowing someday she will inherit the luxurious resort is a fairy tale existence she has no desire to change. She’s always loved Pete McCormack, too. After all, he’s her best friend, confidante, and playmate. Until she suddenly sees him in a different light just before Christmas. Pete McCormack has made sacrifices for his family’s golf cart rental business on the island, choosing to stay home and run it instead of pursuing his dream of his own career on the mainland. When his parents announce their plans to sell the business so Pete can leave the island, he has to choose between the future he thought he always wanted and his newfound love for the woman he would be leaving behind.
Midsummer Love Affair, Kenyon Cove Book 6
Hannah Drake and her beloved dog move to Kenyon Cove for a fresh start. Still stinging from her cancelled wedding six months ago, she’s ready for the fresh ocean breezes to blow away her past and help her stand on her own two feet again. After her experience with her family and friends who let her take the blame for the wedding fiasco, she’s not ready to trust anyone. However, when she arrives in town, an accidental fire at her new not-quite-as-advertised home brings a handsome firefighter right into her new life.
Captain Cooper loves helping people, fighting fires, and being a dependable friend to everyone in Kenyon Cove. His kind of dedication comes with sacrificing his personal life, and he’s never minded…until now. One look at Hannah Drake makes him want to find a place for her in his heart and his life. He knows betrayal has made her cautious, but he’ll do anything to convince Hannah to give Kenyon Cove—and him—a chance.
You need a vacation, and a free one is even better! These two books are free on Kindle this week February 15-19, 2021. No strings attached, just fun reading that will take you away.
When Iris Parker checks into The Puffin Motel just outside Kenyon Cove, Maine, she doesn’t expect to discover she knows the owner. She has the entire month of July to recharge between jobs, but seeing Nate McDaniel takes her back six summers to a romance that ended too quickly. She’s supposed to be on vacation, but her former summer romance happens to own the quiet roadside motel where she’s staying. He’s hard to resist, but she’s not looking for love.
Nate McDaniel thought renovating a small motel was tough, but seeing Iris Parker checking in tests all his courage and defenses. Their teen romance as seasonal workers in Kenyon Cove ended when she left town without a word, and now she’s back and just as tempting as ever. Unable to resist, they both agree to a short-term affair, but can they handle a no-strings summer romance as adults and walk away at the end of July?
Rachel Olmsted leaves her worries behind and boards the Grand Islander for a journey north along the beautiful New England Coast. Her only plan is to enjoy herself. That is until she encounters the handsome man in the cabin next door. Even though Dalton Swain is one of the owners of the luxurious ship, his itinerary for this cruise is pure relaxation. An instant attraction between Rachel and Dalton leads to a night in her cabin and an agreement to embark on a shipboard romance with no strings attached and no future beyond the eleven-day cruise. As the weather cools and the autumn leaves turn, the couple explores seaside villages and their temporary relationship. Soon both Rachel and Dalton realize the joy they feel could become love. Are they willing to negotiate a new agreement that will last long past the change in season?
As the head physician for Coastal Cruise Lines, Dr. Camille Swain cares for the passengers and crew of the Grand Islander. Caring for others keeps her busy and fulfills her professional dreams, but she could use some TLC of her own when it comes to her heart. Devastated by a broken engagement, she’s not ready to trust her heart to anyone. However, when a childhood crush and lifelong family friend boards the Grand Islander, Camille finds it hard to resist him. Grayson Morris is the best man for his brother who is getting married on the Grand Islander. The Morris family has been cruising with Coastal Cruise Lines for decades, and Grayson suggests they all go along for a combined vacation and wedding on the decks of the elegant ship. Reconnecting with his childhood and teenage crush Camille Swain is part of his motivation for planning the family cruise, and being with Camille takes him back to carefree days. Is their relationship built on an idyllic childhood of summer nights on cruise ships, or could Camille and Grayson have a present and a future?
I’m all about giving away free books that I think readers will love, especially during these tough winter months. Of course I hope readers will leave a nice review and come back for more of my beachy romances, but I’m also happy to bring some sunshine either way!
Audrey Coyle can never forget the Atlantic storm that claimed her father’s life off shore from Kenyon Cove, Maine. Because of their shared love of books, she honored her father’s memory by studying library science. When Kenyon Cove posts a head librarian job, Audrey takes it as a sign to go to her father’s hometown and heal by dedicating herself to expanding the library.
Martin Greene does things his own way building boats at the Kenyon Cove boat works without a blueprint or instructions. He loves his independence, but he sacrifices all his free time to his dream of opening his own boat building company. When a chance meeting introduces him to Audrey Coyle, Martin has to re-evaluate his beliefs about books and his own sense of independence. He finds that opening his heart is riskier than facing a wild ocean wave.
They have some history…but do they have a future? Karen Worthy’s world is about freedom and the future. She writes the computer code and runs the programs that keep Coastal Cruise Line ships afloat. Setting her own schedule and hopping aboard ships whenever she chooses is the perfect life. However, her cruise aboard the Grand Islander brings her face to face with someone who lives for the past and the ordered academic world. Professor Perry Lamb is thrilled to be the onboard historian for the Grand Islander’s summer history cruise. There’s nothing he loves more than sharing his love of history with interested people who share his passion, but he vividly remembers Karen Worthy, the undergrad who was unimpressed by his knowledge of the past. As he cruises historic sites along the Eastern Coast of the United States, he needs technical help with a project crucial to his college tenure, and the only person who can help him is Karen Worthy. Only five years separate Karen and Perry’s ages, but they are centuries apart at the beginning of the cruise. Will a romantic trip through the past show them the way to their future?
They claimed the sunset as theirs… Hudson Gilbert keeps the luxurious Grand Islander sailing smoothly. He oversees the intricate workings of the engine room and gets called on to make shipboard repairs, but he’s kept his heart free ever since he learned the hard way several years earlier that shipboard romances aren’t always what they seem. The only reprieve in his busy day is watching the sunset on the ship’s stern. He’s been sharing his nightly ritual with Jane, a hair stylist employed onboard the ship, for the past few months. They chat about their days onboard and their favorite baseball teams, but they’re just friends…he thinks. Jane Allen falls for Hudson at first sight. She’d planned to use her six-month contract working in the ship’s salon to figure out what’s next in her life, but meeting Hudson changes everything. She’s tempted to take a chance and tell him how she feels, but she’d risk every friendly sunset if he doesn’t feel the same way. Being an employee of the company Hudson partially owns also complicates their relationship, and Jane has to juggle what she wants with what her future could hold. As the Grand Islander navigates the waters of the Atlantic, will Hudson and Jane find a way to make the sunsets last?
I love giving away free books to readers because I want the whole world to read and also because I hope a taste of my fun romance novels will bring you back for more. With the droll winter weather, my readers need some sunshine and fun, so here are this week’s TWO books you can download for FREE on Amazon:
A Secret Baby on the Billionaire’s Yacht is just what it sounds like–a romantic family wedding at sea brings together two former lovers where secrets come right out in the sunshine! It’s a fun, fast read that will erase your winter worries.
Two Weeks Aboard the Grand Islander sounds grand to me! Have you ever wanted to go on one of those small luxury cruise ships with amazing service and only a few hundred people on board? How about falling in love on a cruise like that? This book includes TWO intersecting novellas that whisk you away
I hope you’ll grab these books for free and tell a friend! No strings, just fun books.
