People often ask where I get mystory ideas, and I tell them that I really don’t know.\u00a0 It often seems that ideas are floating aroundin the air, just waiting to be plucked out of the primordial goop and turnedinto novels.\u00a0 COMING HOME, the first bookI ever wrote, came out of that primordial goop.<\/p>\n
Anybody who’s known me for more thanfive minutes knows that I’m a diehard rocker.At my advanced age, with the help of my iPod, classic rock from the60’s, 70’s and 80’s helps get me through my days.\u00a0 I love Springsteen and Seger and Mellencamp,and I’ve seen Bon Jovi in concert five times (And expect to see them many moretimes…Jon, in case you’re reading this, that’s a broad hint that it’s time tovisit New England again. Your fans are getting antsy!\u00a0 Oh, and my husband completely understandsthat if you ever leave Dorothea…).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The year is 1974, and songwriter Casey Bradley is just eighteen years old when handsome, charismatic singer Danny Fiore crashes into her life and her heart.\u00a0 The first time she hears Danny sing, Casey is ready to toss away her entire future for a man who’s almost certain to break her heart.\u00a0 Danny has a white-hot talent and a single blinding ambition: to become a rock star. The songs that Casey writes send an icy blue finger down the center of his cynical spine.\u00a0 But Danny knows exactly where he’s going, and he has no intention of taking any woman along.\u00a0 A girl like Casey would want things he’s not prepared to give.\u00a0 A home.\u00a0 Stability.\u00a0 Children.\u00a0 He’s married to his music, and that’s the way he likes it. Neither of them plans on falling in love.\u00a0 But sometimes, the heart has a mind of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[25],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n