Authorpreneur Dashboard – Lynn Ricci
Chasing Yesterday
Romance
A grieving widow is struggling with the death of her high school sweetheart, while a mysterious woman is struggling to make her own amends. Can secrets from their entwined past hold the key to their futures?
Katelyn Murray moves to a small town in Massachusetts as a high school senior and quickly finds she has a secret admirer. As she responds to his written notes, she falls in love with the man behind the beautiful words and endless questions.
A dozen years and a rocky marriage later, her life is shattered by her husband’s sudden death, leaving confusion, unanswered questions, and guilty grief while mourning him and the love she initially felt for the boy from those letters. Katie leans on her friends to overcome this loss but feels something is amiss. She searches for answers, never expecting who may hold the key or where it could lead.
With the unconventional help of a stranger with secrets and aspirations of her own, a chain of events unfolds, and Katie starts to find the journey she was meant to be on and a chance at chasing yesterday.
Book Bubbles from Chasing Yesterday
Chasing Yesterday
This is from the prologue of Chasing Yesterday - a sweet contemporary romance with a touch of magical realism. In the prologue the reader meets Katie's love interest when he was still a lovelorn teenager -- currently a secret admirer -- that has over time struck up a pen pal relationship of sorts with Katie. This is just a snapshot into his world before they meet to help explain why she fell head over heels for him in high school since the book opens after they had been together nearly 15 years and things are not going well.
Chasing Yesterday, Chapter 1
The book opens with the main character, Katie Murray, feeling anxious and overwhelmed at a wake. We find this isn't just any wake, but it is for her young husband, and she is standing in the receiving line. She is dealing with the grief of his death, a sense of guilt given she believes she should feel more devasted since he was the only man she had ever been with after he pursued her as a secret admirer in high school, and the stress and assumptions raised from this strange mourner with an inappropriate hat. The conflict in the way she feels, and questions left unanswered, and a little help from above, start her on a journey to recapture a second chance at yesterday.
Cursed
Romance
When Sarah Carter moves to Boston to escape her past she realizes there’s more than meets the eye with the landlord and her mysterious new best friend. What happened to the owner of this Boston brownstone and what secrets lie within its walls and continue to torment? Witchcraft, curses and timeless love are not what Sarah expected to find in Boston, but as she learns more, she wonders is she actually running back to her past instead of from it?
Book Bubbles from Cursed
Opening of Cursed
This excerpt is from the opening chapter of Cursed - showing Mason Brown watching the street from an empty apartment in the brownstone for the person who will be looking to rent, as well as any sign that "she" has returned - the question is, and is open to the reader to determine, just which "she" he is referring to.
The Dating Intervention
Romance
~~~Heartbreak and humor entwined in a contemporary tale of lost love and second chances~~~ Vanessa had it all: handsome husband, two beautiful children, a lovely home, and a successful career. She was living the dream life she and her friends fantasized about as girls over hot fudge sundaes…but that all ended when her husband mis-dialed his phone. Leaving the life she knew behind was difficult enough, but when Vanessa’s attempt at love with someone from her past falls apart, her well-meaning friends decide an intervention is in order. They quickly discover, however, that the dating pool has become a puddle with each blind date crazier than the one before.
Book Bubbles from The Dating Intervention
TDI - Prologue
As the story opens, we see that a misdialed phone call from Vanessa's philandering husband finally is his downfall. Vanessa had been trying to live the perfect life and although she suspected his infidelity all along, she was told she was being overly suspicious and paranoid so she bit her tongue and kept up appearances. This was not only her final straw, but validation of the truth and she is free. But free to do what now that she isn't in her cookie cutter life she so carefully planned . . .
