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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5th 2020 at 7:30 PM
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There’s still plenty of time to find summer fun
and summer love, new romances and second chances; hot alpha males and
heartwarming heroes, beach bunnies, dudes, and romance popping up when you
least expect it.
Throw a log on the beach bonfire tonight and
celebrate LAST CHANCE BEACH: Summer’s
End, a special collection of 14 short stories from bestselling authors—all
new, never published before—that will thrill the hopeful romantic in you. Some
stories are sweet; some are sizzling hot. All will touch your heart and make
you want to book a vacation to LAST
CHANCE BEACH! Only 99 cents for a limited time!
Hot August Night by Joan Reeves, NY Times
and USA Today Bestselling Author
Can a chef
and a hot dog loving cop resist desire when they’re forced to share the same
overbooked beach cottage?
Something New by Liz Flaherty, USA
Today Bestselling Author
Their
lives are all planned out—until they're not.
I Do…Again by Nancy Fraser, Amazon
Top 100 Author
Can they
re-ignite what they once had and take a last chance on love?
The Man in Gull Cottage by Caroline Clemmons, Amazon
Top 100 Author
Will the
solution to her dilemma drive them apart or into one another's arms?
That One Summer by Maddie James, Amazon
Top 100 Author
He's the
one who got away. She's the one who couldn't commit.
Romancing the Spouse by Jan Scarbrough, Amazon
Bestselling Author
Can she
turn back the clock to save her marriage?
Blue Sky Summer by Kathleen Lawless, Amazon
Bestselling Author
Of all the
beaches on the coast, who does she see again? Him!
Hangover Husband by Bonnie Edwards, Amazon
Bestselling Author
What
happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there
One Last Shot by Marcia King-Gamble, National
Bestselling Author
She can
run, but can she hide? Will love still
find her?
Secondhand Hearts by Kathryn Hills, Award
Winning Author
Life takes
you down many winding paths. Will theirs lead to love on Last Chance Beach?
Paradise Perfume by Connie Vines,
Award Winning Author
Fragrance
and love cannot be hidden.
Dreams of the Past by Laura Hunsaker, Award
Winning Author
Can dreams
of the future erase her nightmares of the past?
Beach Kisses & Sunset Wishes by Nora LeDuc
She wants
someone interested in a fling. He wants someone interested in a ring.
Can't Buy Me Love by Hannah Rowan
Things
aren't always what they seem.
Legend of Last Chance Beach
There are many legends about this beautiful island. This is my
favorite one because it explains why it's called Last Chance.
Many years ago, when travel was done by rails and sails, a
pampered young woman, an acclaimed beauty, spurned each man who sought to claim
her hand. Her wealthy merchant father grew angry at her refusal to marry and
provide him with a grandson to inherit the kingdom he'd built.
He cajoled her with sweet words, bribed her with jewels, pleaded
illness and declining years, but nothing gained her agreement to give her hand
in marriage.
Angered by her obstinance, the father declared he would marry her
to a man of his choosing. The spoiled beauty, possessing much
of her father's attitude, declared no man would own her, but the one she chose.
Neither would yield.
One day, a young man from far away visited the father to ask for
free passage on one of the man's ships so he could return to his home. In
exchange for passage, the young man would use his talent as a writer to record
every detail of the ship, the crew, the passengers, and the voyage.
The father left the room for a few minutes, and his daughter
sneaked in to see the visitor.
He stood, tall and handsome, with a smile that showed dimples. His
dark eyes bewitched her. Neither could look away.
Her heart pounded and her skin heated. She stepped toward him. He
stepped toward her.
The beauty knew the man she'd waited for had appeared. Their hands
touched. "It's as if I met you before—in my dreams," he murmured.
They had but a minute to exchange names.
For a week, the young man dined with them each evening and told
them of his family and home far away. The young couple could not take their
eyes from each other. Her father finally noticed his daughter's infatuation
with the impoverished young man. He leapt from his chair. "No! I forbid
it." His daughter ignored him.
The father shouted at the young man. "Leave here at
once."
The young man stood but went to the beauty's chair. He knelt on
one knee. "I'll return for you."
The father shouted for servants. "Take him to the nearest
ship that sails on the morning tide."
"I'll wait for you," the beauty shouted as she was
carried away and locked in her room. She wept because she knew the young man
who had touched her heart would be imprisoned in the ship's hold. He might well
perish.
The daughter schemed and bribed and gathered information about the
man to whom she'd given her heart.
When she was ready, she ran away and made her way to his country.
He was not at the home he'd told her about. He had not returned to his family.
Filled with despair but not giving up, she searched through other
towns and ports, hopped from island to island, but it was like looking for a
grain of sand on an ocean beach.
Out of money, she landed on an island not far from the mainland. A
newly constructed lighthouse helped guide ships into the ports that had been
established.
A minister's wife befriended her immediately and invited her to
stay with them. "This fair island is a haven, my dear. We rescue people,
their bodies and their souls. That's our mission—to give people another chance,
perhaps their last chance—for life and happiness."
That night, the minister, his wife, and the beauty gathered in the
parlor before dinner.
"We have one other guest," the minister said. "He
has a bit of difficulty getting around. He washed ashore here some months ago.
He'd been held hostage on a ship. When the ship went into a safe harbor during
a storm, he escaped and jumped overboard. You can imagine how the stormy ocean
battered his body. It's a miracle he survived."
The sound of wood on wood preceded the parlor door opening. The
beauty saw a crutch.
Her gaze rose and collided with the startled gaze of her beloved.
She flew into his arms, knocking the wooden crutch aside. They
clung to each other, at last where each had longed to be.
Fate had provided them their Last Chance to find each other.
