Twenty-three-year-old Camryn Singer never imagined that she would return to the place where she lost everything. To grant a dying wish, she moves back to the small Jersey beach town where she grew up, hoping to somehow find the missing pieces of her life. Determined to keep her wounds unopened and her heart guarded, she instead slams head-first into Cole Stevens.
Sexy surfer Cole has always used the waves to numb the pain of his past. But when he runs into Camryn on the beach one day, he wants nothing more than for her to heal his scars and light the spark back in his life.
Will Camryn and Cole be ripped apart when the ghosts from their pasts come back to life, or will they discover that it’s not until you’re lost, that you can be found?
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About The Author
I am a middle school teacher who recently traded in my chalk for a laptop to follow my dream of writing contemporary romance novels. I live with my husband and two daughters in the suburbs of Philadelphia.When I'm not writing, I spend my time reading and relaxing with my family at my home-away-from-home, the Jersey shore.
After I graduated from Villanova University in 2003, I never imagined my path would lead me in this direction. Writing was a hobby, an outlet for me to live in a world of happily ever after. Now as I watch my dream become a reality, I believe that happy endings do exist.
Interview:
Where are you from?
I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and ever really left the area. I guess I’m a Northeast girl even though I hate the winters!
Tell us your latest news?
I recently published my debut novel, Found in You. It’s a story of love and loss and has symbolic meaning to my own life.
When and why did you begin writing?
It’s kind of funny, I feel like my desire to be a writer was such a big secret that I kept from my family and friends. They all knew I carried a journal in my purse and would constantly write down my thoughts. My mom even knew that I picked my major in college based on which included the most writing intensive classes because I was so much better at that than taking a standard test! But no one really knew becoming a writer was actually a dream of mine.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
When I was in third grade I had an assignment where I had to create a children’s book to share with the first graders in our school. I spent all my time perfecting this story and my teacher actually chose it to be “published” in our school library. That really made me see my love for writing. From that day on, writing became a part of my everyday life, a true release for me.
What inspired you to write your first book?
I spent seven years teaching History to middle school students and when I taught the lesson on the American Dream the students had to write their dream on paper and it was collected in a box and put away until the end of the school year. That’s when their American Dreams would be revealed. I, of course, had to write my own and about two years ago I wrote down to become an author on mine. At the end of that school year I received a gift from one of my eighth graders who was moving on to high school and it was a journal. She wrote, “Go get your American Dream.” inside the front cover of it and that began my plunge into this crazy world of writing.
Do you have a specific writing style?
I am definitely character-driven. I strive to really bring them to life, even the secondary ones. I want readers to really feel them.
How did you come up with the title?
All the characters in this book face some sort of loss in their lives, feeling the wrath of loneliness, abandonment, or death of a loved one. The story is about finding your way through the darkness and somehow finding the light. Often times it can be found in someone else, someone who just shows up in your life at a time when you need it the most.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
I want readers to see beyond the beautiful romance and embrace the themes of family, friends, hope and healing. It not only centers on the love between two broken people, but also a mother’s love of her child and the true dedication of friendship. It touches upon real issues that I want readers to easily connect with on an emotional level. Essentially, I want them to see themselves in my characters.
How much of the book is realistic?
Most of the characters are based off of someone in my life, some more loosely than others. Many real-life issues throughout the story have some type of meaning to my life in some way.
Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
Absolutely! Much of the drama is fiction but the issue at hand is very real.
What books have most influenced your life most?
So many have since books are my life. The Outsiders defined my love for reading back in seventh grade. And today, A.L. Jackson’s books, particularly her Regret Series have inspired me to write my own story. I admire the emotional depth in her stories and strive to achieve that in my own writing.
What would you like my readers to know?
I am a wife and mom who always had a simple dream to write true-to-life stories with real characters. And if you can relate to at least one of them, then my job is complete!
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