LAST CHANCE BEACH: Summer’s End BOX SET

LAST CHANCE BEACH is the island paradise where dreams go to live again and wishes may come true. It’s Summer’s End on the island, and the cottages, condos, hotels, and bungalows are filled to capacity.

This set is up now for pre-order before an August 4 release date. I would like to be a guest on your blog to promote this set. It will only be on sale for 90 days and will sell for only 99 cents.

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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!

Purchase link is Amazon.com ~ Last-Chance-Beach-Summers-End-ebook

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.