About The Moonlight Serenade
Title: The
Moonlight Serenade
Author: Kate
Hinderer
Genre: YA
Fantasy
Determined to
someday sing on the stage in New York City, Collette takes an internship at the
luxury resort on Fascination Island. While she plans to hone her craft by
singing nightly on the stage of the Moonlight Serenade restaurant, she never
expected to be pushed outside her comfort zone. Shy and reserved, she is
challenged to step outside herself and release the inner diva. When Falcon
comes along, sparks fly and secrets are revealed. Before long Collette is
forced to make life-changing decisions that will impact her future in ways she
never even imagined.
Summary of The Emerald Isle, Fascination Island Book 1
To
escape a bad break-up and fighting parents Audyn takes a job as a lifeguard at
Fascination Island. The posh five-star resort lives up to its name in every
way, including the strange rules the owner has about entering the water at
night. Despite declaring it a boy-free summer, it isn’t long before the shy, endearing
Levi and the mysterious, tattooed Tristan begin vying for her attention. When
Levi tries to push his advantage and Tristan comes to the rescue, Audyn
realizes there is more to both these boys and the island they inhabit. Suddenly, she’s forced to acknowledge a
reality she’d never considered and to pick a side in the conflict that has been
waging for decades.
Links
Twitter: @kate_hinderer
About the Author
In a nutshell: Writer. Blogger.
Journalist. Marathon runner. Social media enthusiast. Beer drinker. Avid YA
reader. Traveler. Chicago native. Milwaukee resident. Music fanatic. Fashion
lover. Oldest of nine.
Writing has been in my soul from the
very beginning. In grade school I started my own local paper for the street I
lived on. In middle school I wrote for the school paper and loved any English
writing assignment. I started writing novels in high school. At the time my
friends were the characters, the setting was almost always Regency England, and
I scratched the story into lined notebooks.
Now, I have a journalism degree and a
dozen various business writing gigs under my belt. I’ve lived in a handful of
US cities including Milwaukee, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and New York. I pen a
personal fashion and lifestyle blog, ModlyChic.com, and continue to write about
commercial real estate.
My first book, Aurora Undefined, was
published in 2011. The Emerald Isle, the first Fascination Island book, came
out during the summer of 2012, at which time I immediately began writing the
second book in the series.
Next up . . . stay tuned! I’m working
on a new contemporary novel as well as the third book in the Fascination Island
series.
Excerpt
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Beginning of the story…
I never believed in love at first sight until I stood on the stage in the Moonlight Serenade. The uncomfortable churning of my stomach, that plagued me from the moment I boarded the plane from California, finally settled. The nerves that mocked me for taking this internship moved to the background as I stood looking out over the empty restaurant tables surrounding the stage and bandstand. I closed my eyes, envisioning the warm spotlights causing my skin to glow, the soft timbre of the band playing the melody, all eyes on me as I opened my mouth to sing.
My heart swelled as my body swayed to the music in my head. It was love; I was meant to be here, to sing on this stage.
“Ah! Collette, my singing song bird,” Jim Riche called, his arms out to embrace me as he walked into the empty restaurant. Minutes before, a Fascination Island staff member dropped me off at my worksite and left me promising to find the resort’s owner.
Swallowing the fear that threatened to choke me in this moment, I offered the middle-aged millionaire a meek smile. “Mr. Riche. Thank you again for inviting me to sing here this semester.”
“I should be thanking you. I had the privilege of hearing your mother on the stage three different times in New York. It was close to divine. I heard your demos and had to have you here.”
I blushed and looked at my feet, embarrassed both by the compliment and the mention of my deceased mother. She’d been dead three years and still even the mere mention of her name or her renowned talent, caused my heart to break again.
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