USA Today Bestselling Author Ellie Thornton welcomes you to the sunshine state! Looking for fun in the sun? Come to Diamond Cove, a beach community full of hilarious situations, meddling grandparents, and romance. Lose your heart to this sweet romantic comedy about a rockstar hiding his identity and the cute librarian who'll help him find his voice again. Kate has sworn off men—for good this time! No more being stood up, no more coming second, and definitely no more falling in love. No. Nope. She's done. Besides, she has bigger things to worry about, like taking care of her depressed dog, Bear, who's missing his best friend, Sweetie, the blind alligator, and getting the Diamond Cove library ready for a big contest, that if it wins, will land it smack dab on the front of a national magazine. Kate's beyond stoked, but first, she has to clean . . . everything. Removing 50,000 books from all the bookshelves in a three-story library? Shouldn't be too hard. Right? Wrong, according to her best friend, Samantha, the activities director at The Palms Retirement Community where the library is located. Samantha's done hauling books all over and determined to find Kate help. But why, oh, why, does the help have to be the gorgeous and extremely kind security guard Kate met in college over a decade ago at some concert? Doesn't matter. She won't be tempted, Kate can control herself. She can! When world-famous rock star, Axel Clayton, runs away from California to hide from his manager who's pushing him to write songs he has no interest in, he heads straight to Diamond Cove Retirement Community and into his grandparent's open arms. His, grandpa, Don, never liked his career, but during this visit, gramps seems more interested in other things, like this new group of friends he's always sneaking around with. Fine by Axel as long as he doesn't have to defend a career he's not sure he can do anymore. Now, all Axel needs is to stay hidden from fans until he gets lyrics on paper or finally makes the decision to retire. He just needs something to occupy his time. Like the cute librarian he met years ago, and her crazy "clean everything" assignation. He wants the job all right. Even more when he realizes that Kate still doesn't know he's famous. And that's not all she doesn't know. Like the fact that she practically inspired an entire album out of him in the fifteen minutes they were together back then. What could she do with him in weeks? He doesn't know, but he's willing to lug around thousands of books to find out. Don: Finally, I'm getting my oldest grandson married. Watch out, Axel, The Secret Seven are coming for you!
Author
Ellie Thornton is an award-winning author who has been writing since she could lift a pencil and making up stories even longer than that. For years she worked part-time jobs so she would always have time to write, read, and travel. Some of her favorite filler jobs include working as an editor, at a nursery (flowers not children,) as a driving instructor (not as harrowing as one might think,) writing a blog called Confessions of a Property Manager, and being a ghost tour guide. She loves mysteries (reading and writing them) and especially enjoys the ones with sweet romance involved. Her "Reboot Mystery Series," (Previously known as "The Contemporary Reboot Series,") is a mystery series that takes classics like "Pride and Prejudice," "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Jane Eyre," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" puts them in a modern setting and adds a murder mystery and a love story that builds from one book to the next. (Not an easy feat!) She's currently super into honey and beeswax and everything bee related as she is writing a book for Gelato Publishing's Halloween Sweet Romance Series, "Pumpkins and Proposals." Her main character is a beekeeper and owns a business that's all about honey, and beeswax related products. And again, because she loves a good mystery, you'll also find some intrigue there too. She also writes a writing, editing, and marketing blog for authors under the name Emily Clark called Write of Passages. If she's not at her computer, you can typically find her reading, listening to podcasts, at the local library, in her garden, in her kitchen, or with her sister and her sister's kids.
