A little rain couldn't dampen vacationing widowed mother Courtney Blackmun's spirits. After all, she wasn't at the beach in November to get a tan or socialize - she was there to be alone. Or so she thought. Her teenage daughter, expelled from school when she'd hung her headmistress's bloomers on a flagpole, was an unexpected addition...and then the girl started playing matchmaker!
That next door neighbor Adam Richardson had won over Courtney's daughter was quite an accomplishment - though he was exceptionally handsome and charming. The mysterious man brought sunshine into Courtney's life, but she wanted much more than just a fair-weather friend. If she opened her heart, would Adam disappear with the clouds? Or would he be her Romeo - rain or shine?
Kasey Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 100 books (she doesn't count them). Kasey has received three coveted Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly, two for the historical romances, THE SECRETS OF THE HEART and THE BUTLER DID IT, and a third for contemporary romance LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (that shows diversity, you see). She is a recipient of the RITA, a Waldenbooks and Bookrak Bestseller award, and many awards from Romantic Times magazine, including a Career Achievement award for her Regency era historical romances. She is an Honor Roll author in Romance Writers of America, Inc. (RWA)
Kasey has appeared on the TODAY show, and was the subject of a Lifetime Cable TV show "A Better Way," in conjunction with Good Housekeeping magazine, a program devoted to women and how they have achieved career success in the midst of motherhood (short version: "with great difficulty").
A highly praised nonfiction book, written as Kathryn Seidick, "...OR YOU CAN LET HIM GO," details the story of Kasey and her family during the time of her eldest son's first kidney transplant.
Kasey has written Regency romances, Regency historicals, category books including novellas and continuities and a few series "launch" books, and single title contemporaries. She has coped with time travel, ghosts, trilogies, the dark side, the very light side, and just about everything in between. Hers is also the twisted mind behind her ongoing Maggie Kelly mystery series starring a former romance writer turned historical mystery writer whose gorgeous hunk of a fictional hero shows up, live and in color, in her Manhattan living room – to melt her knees, to help her solve murders, and to leave the top off her toothpaste. And, says Kasey, she's just getting started!
Rating 3.5 stars Heroine an author with a teenage daughter and undergoing writer's block so goes away for a while where she meets the hero. She thinks the hero is a trust fund brat who doesn't work, a fact she cannot believe because her life has been tough, growing up in foster homes, widowed at 19 with a small baby too feed, she slogged and has made her own way. The hero had amazing restraint I must admit with the heroine. Her daughter was awesome too, while the heroine could blow, hot and cold. Overall I think the hero was more into the heroine than her.