Sunday, October 15, 2017

The Starlight Walk

The Starlight Walk, is a collection of four music themed romantic comedy novellas all taking place on Madison City's Starlight Walk. They have all been published individually and now are available as a set.




The Starlight Walk, consists of four novellas each taking place on the Starlight Walk in Madison City.
(Please note that each of these stories have also been published individually.)

It Will Always Be You
When Regan Jordan and her best friend Elsie acquired tickets to their all-time favorite TV talk show The Lundquist Hour on their summer vacation to Madison City, they had no idea it would a life changing event.
When special guest, Broadway legend and music superstar Loretta Lindstrom unexpectedly leaves the live show early, host Thorndike Lundquist must find a way to fill in the remainder of the hour.
Regan, at Elsie's urging gets up to sing. She has been compared by friends and family to Loretta for years. Though she has never taken any of it seriously; she's a receptionist, singing is something she does for fun. But Regan's tribute to Loretta is amazing, and Vance, Thorne's producer, knows the viewing audience will want to see more of her.
Regan who is sweet but also very strong and independent becomes an overnight sensation. With the help of Thorne and her long time idol and new friend Loretta Lindstrom, she embarks upon a journey to stardom. Regan finds herself falling for the handsome talk show host, but though he is kind, Thorne is also domineering and it is inevitable that sparks will fly.


Really and Truly
When pianist Josephine Truly was invited by her old friend and songstress Regan Jordan to visit Madison City to appear on her husband’s afternoon talk show The Lundquist Hour, Josie knew she couldn’t resist. The only problem is that Josie has always been more of a shy retiring sort; playing the piano in the background for other people rather than being center stage. She had played for Regan back in their hometown before she became famous. Attempting to fill time and quell her nerves, Josie goes out to dinner alone the night before her scheduled TV appearance, unfortunately, Josie realizes too late that she has forgotten her wallet and can’t even call Regan—the only person she knows in town—as she’s just gone into labor with her first child. Josie is forced to explain herself to tall, handsome restaurant owner Randolfo Tarino.
When Thorne, Regan’s husband, delighted at becoming a new father, decides to put the show into reruns for a week, Josie’s performance is rescheduled and she has a week to fill in a beautiful Madison City, and a very interesting and fun-loving Italian restaurant owner to get to know.


A Starlight Walk Christmas

At eighteen years old, alone, pregnant and with no secure future, aspiring singer Leandra Kelly gave up her baby for adoption. Doing what she thought was best for him, she handed him into the arms of her older infertile best friend who longed for a child.
Twenty-one years later, on his birthday, Doyle arrives at the Starlight Walk in search of the woman who gave him up, now a thirty-nine year old world famous rock star.
When Lea receives an alert from his adoptive mother where to find Doyle, she approaches the young man at the Starlight Walk fountain and they spend the day together, but she is not sure if he knows who she is, or if he believes that they are two strangers who met in the spirit of the season.
This is a short and sweet tale of love, second chances, and new beginnings. And there are surprises in store for both of them.


The Starlight


When Nuncio Tarino decides to move to Madison City to open first a classic car showroom, and then a night club on the Starlight Walk, he gets just a little more than he bargains for. On the club’s opening night, alerted to unusual sounds in the back alley, he discovers Horatio, a large orange feline being pursued by animal rescuer Dulcinea Devenforth. Nuncio hadn’t planned on adopting a cat, he’d never had one before, but there is something about Dulcie that has the notorious playboy doing just that, and something else he’d never anticipated doing before. Falling in love.
Join Nuncio and Dulcie, two people from very different worlds and backgrounds in The Starlight.
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Some people have asked me about the Starlight Walk. What is it? And where is it? So here goes!
Well, the Starlight Walk is in Madison City, Wisconsin. It is the hub of all things musical and entertainment for that region.
Many well known stars live there. As you get to know the books you will find these venues:

The T.V studios for Thorne's talk show. The Lundquist Hour
Madison's Central Square Plaza Hotel.
The Starlight Fountain with it's modern art cascade of stars, moons and suns.
Central Towers, a pair of blue glass towers with views of the Starlight Walk where many of the elite live.
La Marionette Hotel. 
Bandolero's Hotel.
The Starlight, Nuncio Tarino's nightclub.
Tarino's Italian Garden, Randolfo Tarino's restaurant, though it undergoes a name change to Truly Tarino.
Doyle's Place, a nightclub owned by Leyla Leona.

I picture The Starlight Walk itself as a combination of The Champs Elysees and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Starlight Walk is lined with sun and half moon shaped stones bearing the names of many famous stars, the trees are lit with fairy lights year round, and the Starlight Fountain is at its heart, reminding me of Place de la Concorde on the Champs Elysees, Paris.
There is a Christmas Parade every year with numerous floats which usually ends with a concert in the center of the walk by the Starlight Fountain.
The venues give the perfect settings for many opportunities for love and romance. And make each book uniquely different. Hard to believe it's fiction. Right?

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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Gems




Gems (It’s not about diamonds)

From an incredibly stressful beginning to an amazingly happy and unusual ending. I hope you will follow Jace and Samantha’s love story as they navigate through each other’s worlds and try to meet in the middle.

When a six foot four dark haired, blue-eyed cowboy leaps over the wall into billionaire Samantha Amethyst Silverstone’s garden one evening, she is fascinated. Both by his determination to bypass her security and his looks. He must need something pretty badly to be here.
She watches his progress toward her house through her security cameras with her butler and close confidante Oliver.
Jace is a man on a mission—he needs funds to send his ailing niece Gem to an exclusive Swiss clinic for treatment and he’s not leaving without making his request for assistance to Samantha in person. And if that means breeching the walls of her mansion, so be it.
However, soon lonely Samantha has a request of her own. Marriage. And definitely not a marriage of convenience. Her request leaves Jace reeling. Marriage to a delicate woman who wears silks and lace, doesn’t own a pair of jeans, and rides sidesaddle? He’s a down to earth no-nonsense cowboy who spends his days working his ranch and tending his horses, he lives in jeans and cowboy boots …could they possibly make it work?
But there are some unusual surprises along the way. As Samantha gets to know little Gem, she realizes that the girl bears an uncanny resemblance to herself as a child, and when in Europe she discovers another mysterious lookalike in a fashion magazine, a woman so like her that even Jace is fooled into thinking it is her. As the situation progresses a strange connection between the three lookalikes reveals itself that will have Samantha turning to Jace for emotional support and it goes far beyond the fact all three girls have gems as their middle names.
A little girl, a cowboy, a billionairess and an unusual link with an enigmatic butler make up this playful yet touching story.
A joyful ending guaranteed. 
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