I’m so pleased to feature Kristin Wallace as she
introduces a brand new series!
The
Shellwater Key Tales
As children, Layla, Emma and Callie made a vow
to be “friends for life”. Life and heartache intrudes, and each ends up going
her separate way. Years later, they all return to their hometown of Shellwater
Key, Florida for different reasons. All soon become involved in reviving the old
Paradise Dinner Theatre, and it is there that they find healing and ultimate
happiness.
Book One, Left Turn at Paradise, is available
TODAY! Here’s the blurb:
High-powered
business executive Layla McCarthy has lost everything, but an abandoned dinner theatre
is about to usher in a brand new act in her life.
Layla McCarthy has spent most of her life trying
to outrun the wild reputation of the mother who abandoned her. Raised by her
grandmother, Layla puts all her faith in building a career, only to lose
everything. So, when she learns her grandmother and great aunt have bought the
old Paradise Dinner Theatre, she returns to her hometown of Shellwater Key to
ensure her relatives don’t lose their life savings. Reviving The Paradise
brings an unexpected romance with Grayson Kendall, the enigmatic director hired
to produce the first show. But nothing will ever be the same when Layla’s
long-lost mother returns, looking to make amends.
In the end, The Paradise will become the
backdrop as Layla opens her heart to love…and three generations of McCarthy
women find a way through past mistakes to a new life filled with hope and redemption.
Excerpt:
I have a mortgage. A
lease on a new luxury car. I am an unabashed
shopaholic and like regular meals. I need a new job. A new career. A whole new
life.
Layla McCarthy tried to quell the panic as she
pictured the pile of bills waiting for her at home. Bills she had no way of
paying thanks to her now empty bank account.
A human hurricane had struck her life, leaving
her business, LM Concepts, strewn across the landscape. Her passion, her baby,
the one thing that had never disappointed her…gone. All because Layla’s
business partner had fallen in love and decided to abscond with him…and the
company funds.
She really should have
decked him.
The moment Melanie’s
spray-tanned, Euro-trash boyfriend had used kissing the back of Layla’s hand as
a cover for looking down her shirt, she should have decked him. As a green-eyed
blonde with a body that screamed bombshell, Layla was used to leers and
suggestive comments, even from her friends’ significant others. Usually, they
tried to be discreet about it though. Julian hadn’t even made an effort.
For Melanie’s sake,
Layla had restrained herself.
She’d wound up losing
everything for her trouble. Whatever had been left after Melanie fled had gone
to pay vendors, a private investigator who was still sending her invoices for
what looked to be nothing more than internet searches, and an outrageously
expensive bankruptcy attorney. Layla might have held strong and kept going,
except her clients took a hike too, unwilling to stay aboard a ship that had Titanic written all over the bow.
She’d known this day
would be difficult, but she hadn’t expected the gut-wrenching sense of loss.
The soul-shattering knowledge that she was a failure at thirty. Failing was
something Layla never did.
She walked to the window
and looked down at the street. From this vantage she could see both downtown
Miami and Biscayne Bay. Traffic flowed on Biscayne Boulevard, the cars looking
like giant ants marching back and forth—all racing to get somewhere, while
Layla’s life had come to a screeching halt.
Barnes
and Noble: (link to come)
About Kristin Wallace
Kristin
is the USA Today Best Selling Author
of inspirational and contemporary romance, and women’s fiction filled with “love,
laughter and a leap of faith”. Growing up Kristin devoured books like bags of
Dove Dark Chocolate. Her first Golden
Book led to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Nancy Drew, C.S. Lewis and the Sweet
Valley High series. Later, she discovered romance novels and fell in love all
over again. It’s no surprise that she would one day try her hand at writing them.
Kristin is the author of the Covington Falls Chronicles, inspirational romances
set in a fictional Southern town, as well as the Shellwater Key Tales.
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