Summer Wedding Collection Author: Annette Lyon, Heather B. Moore, Julie Wright, Melanie Jacobson, Rachael Anderson, Sarah M. Eden
Series: A Timeless Romance #3
Genres: Romance Anthology
Format: eBook, Print
Pages: 330
Date: May 1, 2013
Publisher: Mirror Press
Six sweet contemporary romance novellas, all centered on a Summer Wedding.
In Melanie Jacobson’s charming novella, Love Bytes, Bree is the maid-of-honor and Dallen is the best-man. Living across the country from each other, they commiserate over their prospective best friends’ unrealistic wedding demands. While they plan and plot over email and texting, Bree realizes that the best part about the Maui wedding might be meeting Dallen. She just hopes that he’ll feel the same way.
Romeo and Julie-ex is a sweet romance by Julie Wright. “Romeo” turns out to be a two-timing jerk, and when Juliet Moore’s pre-ordered wedding dress arrives from UPS, Juliet curses everything male. In a stubborn streak, she decides to keep the bridal photography appointment—if only because the money isn’t refundable and it was the one thing that her ex-fiance actually paid for. Plus, she has the perfect wedding dress. When Juliet shows up for the appointment and meets photographer Jack Montague, she might have to take back some of her curses on men.
In Rachael Anderson’s enchanting novella, The Meltdown Match, Courtney spends each summer in her hometown of Heimel, Alaska, to find inspiration for her next novel. Her writing method has become a pattern—outline a novel in Heimel, then move to the place her novel is set to finish writing it. But when she runs into former high school friend, Mitch Winters, and they both win the Meltdown Match—a traditional dating contest—Courtney discovers that leaving her hometown at the end of the summer might not be so easy this time.
In Golden Sunrise, an engaging romance by Annette Lyon, Natalie takes time out of her crazy schedule to fly to Vegas for her best friend’s wedding. Sierra and Jason, high-school sweethearts, are finally getting married. Fortunately for Natalie, her old high-school flame, Adam, has a work commitment and can’t be there as best man. But when she arrives at the wedding rehearsal—late and ragged—Adam is there. Memories from the past—and all her old feelings—come flooding back. When Adam makes a wild suggestion, Natalie just may take him up on it, even though she knows he’s moved on. A single choice may mean Natalie is taking a shot at reclaiming the past—or that she’s putting her heart in harm’s way a second time.
Tide Pools is a captivating story by Heather B. Moore. When Lexi makes a quick trip to Hawaii to attend her friend’s wedding, she discovers that the engaged couple, Sydney and Apelu, are still trying to match-make for her. Lexi laughs because not only does their friend David have a serious girlfriend, but he owns a restaurant on the island. Lexi has too many plans that don’t include a long-distance relationship or coming between a guy and his girlfriend. But when Lexi meets David, she has a hard time remembering why all of her plans were so important.
In Sarah M. Eden’s delightful novella, A Regular Bloke from Stanmore, Abby is helping her sister, Caroline, plan her British wedding. That’s right, Caroline is obsessed with all things British and insists on an authentic wedding in . . . Oregon. When they arrive at Sainsbury House reception hall, it has everything Caroline loves, and the host, Matthew Carlton, even has a British accent. Yet Abby isn’t buying the whole good-looking-British man with impeccable manners thing; she’s determined to expose him as a fake. But the more Abby gets to know Matthew, the more she realizes how wrong she really is.
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About Annette Lyon
Annette Lyon is a Whitney Award-winning author and a three-time recipient of Utah’s Best of State medal for fiction. She has received many publication awards from the League of Utah Writers, including the Silver Quill for PAIGE, one of her books in the co-written Newport Ladies Book Club series. She is the author of over a dozen novels, at least as many novellas, a cookbook, a grammar guide, plus some 120 hundred articles.
About Heather B. Moore
Heather B. Moore is a USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen historical novels and thrillers, written under pen name H.B. Moore. She writes women’s fiction, romance and inspirational non-fiction under Heather B. Moore.
About Julie Wright
Julie Wright wrote her first book when she was fifteen. Since then, she’s written sixteen novels and co-authored three. Julie won the Whitney award for best romance in 2010 with her novel Cross My Heart, and the Crown Heart award for The Fortune Café. She loves writing, reading, traveling, hiking, playing with her kids, and watching her husband make dinner.
About Melanie Jacobson
Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper. She consumes astonishing amounts of chocolate, chick flicks, and romance novels. A former English teacher, Melanie writes contemporary romantic comedies.
About Rachael Anderson
Rachael Anderson is the mother of four and is pretty good at breaking up fights, or at least sending guilty parties to their rooms. She can’t sing, doesn’t dance, and despises tragedies. But she recently figured out how yeast works and can now make homemade bread, which she is really good at eating. She is a USA Today bestselling author.
About Sarah M. Eden
Sarah M. Eden read her first Jane Austen novel in elementary school and has been addicted to historical romance ever since. With a degree in research and a fascination with history, Eden loves delving deep into history. She is the author of multiple historical romances.
I LOVED this collection of short stories featuring some of my favorite authors of clean romance! I think this is my favorite set of the Timeless Romance anthologies (although they have all been fantastic!). The stories all had something to do with a summer wedding, but they were all so different at the same time.
I don’t know whose idea it was to do these anthologies, but I love them! I am not a huge fan of short stories, but they are done so well here that I actually look forward and buy each anotholgy as soon as it comes out! This was a really fun one, I loved all the stories and will definitely be re-reading them!
Loved these stories! My favorite was the one by Sarah Eden.
I enjoyed the book overall but thought that some of the stories were a little more edgy than others. Some had a lot about admiring bodies of each other which gets old especially when it repeats all the time. And there was alcohol consumption.
Melanie Jacobson – Love Bytes had a fun premise. I enjoyed it overall but I listened to this as an audio book and I think this one would have been better to just read. All the email back and forth was delightful as their banter was great but listening to the narrator repeat their email addresses for every exchange got old really fast. Contained a little language.
Julie Wright – Romeo and Julie-ex also had a fun premise. I really liked Jack particularly. I don’t always like first person stories but it worked really well in this one. It added to the story instead of being a distraction for me.
Rachel Anderson – The Meltdown Match was interesting. The whole idea of the actual meltdown competition is quite fun. Is it a real thing? And celebrating the summer solstice is a great idea for a story. The relationship developed quickly but that was because they both had been silently admiring from a far for many years.
Annette Lyon – Golden Sunrise was good too. I felt bad that they had both been hurting for so many years.
Heather B Moore – Tide Pools had a fun Hawaii setting. It sounded so beautiful. Plus I want teriyaki chicken now.
Sarah M Eden – A Regular Bloke from Stanmore was my favorite of the collection. I loved Abby and Matthew and how he was in the end able to show her that he is a regular bloke.