Book Highlight: Summer of Two Wishes

Summer of Two Wishes was my first of a new kind of contemporary, a cross between women's fiction and contemporary romance.  Before this book came out in 2009, I had written straight contemporary romance, which to me means lighter fare with the primary focus of the book on the romance.

This was a little different.  There was not one, but two romances, and the focus was on one woman's journey.  It was about Macy, who had been happily married to Finn, the man of her dreams.  She lost Finn to a roadside bomber in Afghanistan.  After a couple of years of being consumed by grief, Macy picked up the pieces and with all the strength she had in her, she moved on.  She fell in love with Wyatt.  She married him.  She was trying to have a baby with the unthinkable happened:  Her first husband was found very much alive.  Two loves.  Two husbands.  Which would she choose?

As you can imagine, I got a lot of mail about this book, and most of it had to do with the man she didn't pick.  Both men were heroes.  Both men deserved their happy-ever-after.  One of them didn't get it.   I am happy to report that we pick up with the one she didn't pick in A Light at Winter's End, which will be released February 22.  But in the new novel, there is no easy path for him.  In fact, the road gets even harder.  As a writer, I can be mean that way.

You can read about both books, as well as excerpts, at www.julialondon.com.

Enjoy.