Island Series Readers – We Need to Talk …

Has anyone noticed something different about the Island series? Maybe the fact that I’m calling it a “series” and not a trilogy?

It’s not a trilogy anymore. I don’t know what it is. I know for sure that I’ve written three books, and I know I have an idea for another long-short-story / short novella and for another book. I’m pretty sure the series isn’t over, so it’s an open-ended series for now.

I feel like it’s important to tell you this, because some of you might be surprised that the main characters in Join Up aren’t Meg and Jared.

M & J are there. We see them. But Lacey takes centre stage in this story.

I hope most of you will go along with this. I hope you’ll grow to know and love Lacey like I have.

If you do, great. If not, I’m sorry, but this is the book that was in me to be written. It was my best possible next work in this series.

If I had forced this book to be all-Meg-and-Jared-all-the-time it would have been less than my best work.

And I never want to give you – or the Island series – less than my best work.

Meg and Jared will always be part of this series. You’ll see them again. You’ll find out more about their lives. You’ll even find out more about their lives in Join Up.

It’s just that you’ll find out more about Lacey’s life.

Why am I telling you this now? Why did I want to get this explanation out of the way?

Because I have the blurb for Join Up, and I want to share it with you, and I don’t want you to be shocked, or wonder what’s going on.

So, without further ado, I give you the Join Up blurb:

A summer at one of the poshest riding camps in the province. A hundred horses. Rolling hills ribboned with hacking trails and cross-country jumps.

It could be perfect. Unless you’re Lacey Strickland, and you’re leaving Salem, Meg, and Jared behind on the island.

The only thing that isn’t hard to leave is Lacey’s memory of her first kiss, delivered in a spring-scented hayfield, which sizzled, then fizzled into nothing at all.

The other thing making camp less-than-perfect for Lacey? She’s not a cosseted camper, but a staff member – teaching riding lessons from sun-up to sun-down.

In Meg’s first letter to Lacey, she writes: “I bet anything there’s at least one amazing horse waiting for you there. And maybe a new great – if not best – friend.”

Is Meg right? Could Lacey meet a horse she’ll love just as much as Salem? And are there new friends in her future? Maybe even somebody who could give her more than just one kiss in a hayfield?

Come along with me for the Lacey and ? ride – you’ll have to read the book to fill in the ? but I think you’ll like him …