Julia London is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of several contemporary women's fiction novels with strong romantic elements, including Summer of Two Wishes, One Season of Sunshine, and Light at Winter's End. She is also the author or the bestselling Desperate Debutante and Scandalous historical romance series, as well as The Year of Living Scandalously, the first novel in the Secrets of Hadley Green series.
Julia is the recipient of the RT Bookclub Award for Best Historical Romance and a four-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award for excellence in romantic fiction. She lives in Austin, Texas. To keep up with all the Julia London news and excerpts, please visit http://www.julialondon.com.
You may also enjoy my other contemporary setting books. The Thrillseekers Anonymous series (including Wedding Survivor, Extreme Bachelor, and American Diva coming soon in ebook) are contemporary romance novels about four men who operate a members-only adventure service that caters to the rich and famous: A-list movie stars, heads of state, and ridiculously rich patrons. They have a reputation for staging some of the greatest sports thrills in the world for guys who like that sort of thing . . . but then the collective world of the Thrillseekers is turned on its head when women begin to want their help in staging unusual weddings and parties.
The Cedar Springs series (including Summer of Two Wishes, One Season of Sunshine, and A Light at Winter’s End) is women’s fiction with heavy romantic elements. The books are set in the fictional town of Cedar Springs, Texas (near Austin) and tackle such heart-wrenching topics as adoption, drug abuse, and the heartache of prolonged war. These books are available in print and as ebooks.
A sneak peek at the Thrillseekers Trilogy, to be reissued as ebooks in the very near future: This excerpt is taken from Wedding Survivor:
MARNIE was fully aware of the bad habit she had of talking to fill the space around her, especially when she was nervous. But she really didn’t know how to stop, especially not when she was this nervous. She was beginning to think that maybe she’d jumped a little too hastily into what was really a whack job.
That wasn’t so far-fetched, seeing as how she’d found out about the job to begin with by eavesdropping on a hushed conversation at a wedding trade show. While Marnie was not in the habit of eavesdropping on other people’s conversations (well . . . unless it was something really juicy), she’d been a little desperate. She needed this job in a bad way—if she had to live with Mom and Dad another month, she’d hurl herself into the ocean and let herself be washed out to sea. And besides, a certified wedding planner without an actual solo wedding under her belt couldn’t afford to be too choosy.
Oh, who was she kidding?
The very thought of doing Vincent Vittorio and Olivia Dagwood’s wedding sent chills up her spine. They were the two biggest stars in the universe and Marnie couldn’t wait to meet them—she could imagine her and Olivia becoming best friends as they planned everything, and then, when Marnie had pulled off the wedding of the century without a hitch, Olivia would hook her up with some of her A-list stud friends and refer tons of fabulous clients to her so that Marnie could become the wedding planner to the stars.
Hey, a girl could dream, couldn’t she? And that dream alone prompted her to put on the red hat and purchase the fruit, per the bizarre instructions of Thrillseekers Anonymous.
Then the Lincoln had appeared.
When she’d seen Eli leaning against the Lincoln in a black Astros hat, with dark glasses resting on a straight nose, and a sexy shadow of a beard dusting a strong chin and some killer lips, not to mention the long, lean look of him in general, Marnie had been pleasantly surprised. Bonus! The job had a really good-looking guy involved.
Unfortunately, good-looking did not mean particularly friendly. He reminded her of a cowboy in one of the old westerns, the strong silent type. A Clint Eastwood with steely eyes—well, she presumed there were steely eyes behind those shades.
And what was all that about an audition?
The Lincoln turned, and Marnie caught a glimpse of towering iron fences through the front window that could only be surrounding huge monolithic houses, and she felt a tingle of excitement. Wedding planner to the stars, here she was!