Divorced
mom, Mia Gibbs' family is her life, but her world is turned upside down when
she falls for her one-time teenage crush Nick McGuire, a workaholic lawyer who
isn't a family man. Fans of Susan Wiggs' The Lakeshore Chronicles will love
this heartwarming friends to lovers story releasing this summer from Grand
Central - Forever.
About Summer on Firefly Lake (Firefly
Lake #2):
Title: Summer on Firefly Lake
Author: Jen Gilroy
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Women’s
Fiction
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Publisher: Forever –
Grand Central Publishing
Series: Firefly Lake
ISBN: 9781455569601
Sometimes love is better the second time
around.
Mia
Gibbs spent her marriage putting her husband’s needs before her own. And now,
after a painful divorce, she’s building a new life for herself and her two
daughters back home at Firefly Lake. The last thing she needs is a man to
complicate things. But former bad boy turned friend Nick McGuire has turned
everything upside down.
Attorney
Nick McGuire wasn’t meant to be a family man. His career has always been his
focus, and after taking time out to help his mother, he’s ready to get back to
the city…until Mia and her daughters arrive at Firefly Lake. Mia is beautiful
and intriguing, and it doesn’t take long to realize being “just friends” will
never be enough. As the summer nights turn colder, Nick will have to choose
between the life he’s always wanted…and the woman he can’t live without.
Praise for Summer on Firefly Lake:
“Has
charm to spare...The delightful supporting cast...and expertly plotted story
add depth and richness to this tale, leaving readers eager for another visit to
Firefly Lake.” – Publishers Weekly
“Gilroy’s
second Firefly Lake novel encapsulates the quaint, busybody small-town feel and
the slippery slope of friends becoming lovers quite well…Engaging...(a) fast
paced page turner.” – RT Book Reviews
Excerpt:
“I want this.” Mia lifted her face to
his as a cloud scudded across the moon. “I want you.”
Even if it could only be for tonight,
she was Mia, not a mom, not a sister, and not a wife who’d been tossed aside
for someone younger and curvier. For this one moment, she didn’t have any
responsibilities except what she wanted and needed.
I want you, too.” Nick took her hand and
led her toward the car. “A part of me has wanted you since I was fifteen and
you hung out at the town beach in that green bikini with the white flowers.”
Her heart lurched. He’d noticed her
enough to remember the bikini she’d hidden from her mom. The one she’d bought
because she’d heard Nick say he liked green. “You were always with the guys by
the life guard station.”Everything about him was a lot sexy and a little bit
dangerous.
“I wanted to see you.” His smile was
forced, like the admission cost him more than he wanted her to know.
Mia curved her cold hand into his warm
one. She’d guessed she’d hurt him the one time they’d gone out, but until
tonight she hadn’t understood how much. She couldn’t regret the past, and she
couldn’t predict the future, but she could do something about the present. “I
want to be with you. Even though we’re not teenagers anymore and I don’t have
that green bikini.
Nick’s gaze skimmed her body from head
to toe and lingered at her breasts. Then he gave her a grin that was pure bad
boy. “I was always a lot more interested in what was underneath that bikini
anyway.”
He opened the passenger door for her to
slide in.
She looked at him from under her lashes
and flirted like she’d wanted to do all those years ago but had been too shy.
“You were, were you?”
“Oh yeah.” He shut the car door and, in
the sudden silence, panic rolled over her again. Except, there was excitement
too…
Copyright
© Summer on Firefly Lake 2017 by Jen Gilroy
Other Books in the Firefly Lake Series:
Title: The Cottage at
Firefly Lake
Author:Jen Gilroy
Publisher:Forever – Grand
Central Publishing
Series:Firefly Lake #1
Date Released:January 31, 2017
Genre:Contemporary Romance /Women’s Fiction
ISBN:9781455569595
Some mistakes can never be fixed and
some secrets never forgiven … but some loves can never be forgotten.
Charlotte
Gibbs wants nothing more than to put the past behind her, once and for all. Yet
now that she's back at Firefly Lake to sell her mother's cottage, the
overwhelming flood of memories reminds her of what she's been missing.
Sun-drenched days. Late-night kisses that still shake her to the core. The
gentle breeze off the lake, the scent of pine in the air, and the promise of
Sean's touch on her skin…True, she got her dream job traveling the world. But
at what cost?
Sean
Carmichael still doesn't know why Charlie disappeared that summer, but after
eighteen years, a divorce, and a teenage son he loves more than anything in the
world, he's still not over her. All this time and her body still fits against
his like a glove. She walked away once when he needed her the most. How can he
convince her to stay now?
Praise for The Cottage at Firefly Lake:
“Gilroy’s
debut contemporary is packed with potent emotions…[the] protagonists tug at the
heartstrings from the beginning of the story and don’t let go. Long on charm,
this story invites readers to come in and stay a while.” – Publishers Weekly
“Memories,
regrets and second chances are front and center in Gilroy’s fantastic debut.” –
RT Book Reviews
About Jen Gilroy:
Jen Gilroy lives
in a small town in eastern Ontario, Canada where her Irish ancestors settled in
the nineteenth century. She's worked in higher education and international
marketing but, after spending too much time in airports and away from her
family, traded the 9-5 to write romantic women’s fiction to bring readers'
hearts home.
Jen
likes ice cream, diners, vintage style and all things country. Her husband is
her real-life romance hero, and her teen daughter teaches her to cherish the
blessings in the everyday.
The
Cottage at Firefly Lake, the first book in her Firefly Lake series, was a
finalist for Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® award in 2015. It was
also shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Joan Hessayon Award
2017.
Interview:
Interview:
Thanks for inviting me to chat with you at Deal
Sharing Aunt. I’m happy to be here to talk about books and writing with your
readers.
1.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
The
best part of a vacation for me is visiting places associated with favorite
books.I lived in England for many years and particular highlights were visiting
Jane Austen’s home at Chawton,as well as exploring the Georgian heritage in Bath
that Austen depicted so beautifully in her novels. I also travelled to the
English Lake District to follow in the steps of Wordsworth and other Romantic
poets and see the places that inspired Beatrix Potter’s tales.
In
the US, I’ve made pilgrimages to sites associated with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House stories and, at home in
Canada, have visited the Prince Edward Island setting for L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and other books.
2.
What is the first book that made you cry?
As
a tween, I remember sobbing over my grandmother’s copies of Louisa May Alcott’s
Little Women andthe second part, Good Wives. Beth March’s illness and
death were heartbreaking because I cared about the March family almost as if
they were my family.
It
was my first fictional experience of death and had a profound impact on me. I’ve
reread these books many times since, but it was only as an adult that I
recognized how readers become emotionally invested in fictional characters, and
one of the marks of a skilled author, like Alcott, is creating characters who seem
real.
3.
Does writing energize or exhaust you?
Both!
When the words are flowing, writing is my happy place.When I’m deep in a story,
I’m exactly where I’m meant to be.
However,
when I get stuck, am on a tight deadline, or “life happens,” writing can also be
exhausting.Once I get through the rough patch, though, I once again have the
wonderful feeling of euphoria and energy that only writing brings.
4.
Do you want each book to stand on its own, or
are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?
My
new release, Summer on Firefly Lake
is the second book in the Firefly Lake series, small-town contemporaries from
Grand Central, Forever. Although each book stands alone, the books are
connected through some recurring characters and the Vermont setting.
As
an author, I enjoy writing connected books because I’m able to truly get to
know the setting and characters and, across a series, build what I hope is a
compelling world for my readers.
As
a reader, I enjoy reading books with connections between them for the same
reasons. The setting becomes a place I’d like to live, and the characters are
as familiar as old friends.
5.
How many unpublished and half-finished books
do you have?
Because
I’m stubborn andusually complete things I start (my husband would say sometimes
to my detriment!), I only have one half-finished book, a young adult historical
I began when I was still trying to find my writing voice.
However,
I have four booksthat will forever stay under the bed. Although they’ll never
be published, those books are integral to how I learned to tell stories, create
sympathetic characters and write believable dialogue.
And,
proving no writing is ever wasted, I drew inspiration from a scene in one of
those unpublished books and now, entirely rewritten, it appears in my third
Firefly Lake book, Back Home at Firefly
Lake, which releases in early December.
6.
If you didn’t write, what would you do for
work?
For
me, everything comes back to writing so if I didn’t write fiction, I’d want to do
some other kind of writing like the speechwriting and copywriting for
businesses and charities I did before I became a
full-time author.
Journalist
is one of my career paths not taken, and that’s why I made the heroine of my
first book, The Cottage at Firefly Lake,
a foreign correspondent.
I
also enjoy teaching and, if I truly couldn’t write, I’d likely make my way to
the teaching world in some capacity. Working in a museum, archive or library
also appeals. Anything to do with books!
7.
What is your favorite childhood book?
It’s
actually a trilogy, the Emily books
by Canadian author L.M. Montgomery. Although less well known than the Anne of Green Gables series, Emily is a
young girl who wants to be a published author, and the books trace her writing
journey from childhood to early adulthood.
As
a child and young adult, I didn’t know any writers. Reading Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs and Emily’s
Quest, helped nurture my dream of achieving publication—one that never died
despite many years and career detours along the way.
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