Once upon a time, I was a lover; I was a wife; I was a friend, and I was a mother. When did my past end and my future begin? Pepper Calloway is accustomed to her relaxed style of lakeside living in the mountains with extended periods of alone time. Her only daughter, Campbell, is away at school and her husband’s job as a pilot keeps him away. Pepper can conjure up a best-selling plot in her sleep, but even her imagination couldn’t prepare her for Nick’s demise. Her husband’s death forces her to face her guilt for remaining in their loveless sham of a relationship as she fights with grief and longs for the life she might have had with her college sweetheart, Charlie Tanner. As one mystery brings the full depth of her husband’s subterfuge, another brings Pepper’s past into the present. The Blossom Springs Duet is an angst-ridden, plot-driven, women’s contemporary romance series about a mother and daughter with carry-over characters from Kitty Berry’s previous novels. The small lakeside town of Blossom Springs sets the stage in the mountains for romance author Pepper Calloway and her daughter, Campbell. Told in past and present time in alternating chapters, the reader will become part of Pepper Ross’ past college life right alongside Pepper Calloway’s current life as a wife betrayed and a mother with an empty nest.
Author
Kitty Berry grew up an only child who never wished for a sibling in a small town in Connecticut. After graduating with a degree in Early Childhood Special Education, she began teaching in the field and started to raise a family. Her literary influences happened later in life when she stumbled upon The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve after seeing it featured on the Oprah Show. It was her late mother’s (whose name she uses as a pen name) desire of becoming a writer that prompted Kitty to create a contemporary romantic series. Being a creative person by nature who came into writing during a time in her life when the busy balance of career and family made her crave an escape into the world of romance, Kitty took that desire and turned it into a romantic series that offers the reader multidimensional characters. In 2013, she published her first novel from The Stone Series, Sliding. Since then she has written 10 other novels in that series, among them Stoned, Second Chances, Surrender, Starting Over, and Silence. The final installment, Survivor was released in 2016. A holiday edition was released in late 2018. Since then, Berry has released a trilogy titled, The Anatomy of Love and written a carry-over stand-alone novel, Vines of Ivy. In 2019, she released the Compatible Companions Trilogy. Because angst-ridden, plot-driven, women's contemporary romances mesmerize Kitty, Berry writes only in that genre. While each book in The Stone Series can stand alone with its own story, Berry’s intention was to create carry-over characters to satisfy the need of the reader to know more after each novel ends. As an avid reader herself, Kitty enjoys the feeling of being there with the characters inside the story and often finds herself wanting to know more about them, missing them when the story is over, and becoming excited all over again when she discovers those familiar characters in subsequent novels. It is her hope that The Stone Series will do the same for her readers. Kitty is married to a man she met in graduate school and has three boys who are almost men. Kitty recently founded RomantiConn (a romance author signing event annually held in CT) and is currently working on the Falls Village anthology hybrid with her fellow RomantiConn authors. Visit Kitty’s website @ www.kittyberryauthor.com
