Authorpreneur Dashboard – Shawna Lynn Brooks
Stormsurge
Romance
Lacey Underwood has struggled to build her life, and her small business, in her little hometown of Shepherdsville. Then a storm changes everything. With a car on the blink and a hurricane barreling towards her, she must find her way to safety. When her high school friend, the sweet but nerdy Gene Blackwell, finds her stranded in front of her feed store, she can barely believe this hunk is the guy she used to know. But how could she ever be enough for someone as brilliant as Gene? Gene has a happy life in Atlanta--far away from the bullies that used to taunt him and the love for Lacey that he never let show. But when he rescues Lacey from the storm, he soon discovers his infatuation is not as dead as he thinks. Lacey will never see him as anything but Eugene the nerd. Can he make it through the night without turning back into the kid who forever obsessed over someone he could never have? Stormsurge is the first book in the Shepherdsville series of clean, small town romance novels. If you like feel good stories, lovable characters, and second chance romances, you'll love Shawna Lynn Brooks' heartwarming romance books. Pick up Stormsurge and discover this delightful series today!
Book Bubbles from Stormsurge
Life in hurricane alley
I write about small towns because that’s where my roots are. I spent my childhood in southeastern Washington state, but my grandparents and parents are from a small town in southern Mississippi. I moved there in junior high and lived in a house right across the street from where my dad grew up. My 93-year-old grandma (mom’s mom) still lives there. She’s lived in the same house since my mom was five. That's the house where Lacey Underwood and Eugene Blackwell weather a hurricane in Stormsurge. I wrote the bulk of the story while I was waiting out Hurricane Nate. I’ve waited out several hurricanes over the years. Nate was a little different, though. It was an unusually fast-moving hurricane, but it was only a cat 1, so we didn’t expect a lot of damage. Hours before the eye was to hit, though, the wind and rain were fierce. That was a lot of wind for such a mild hurricane. We found out an hour later that that wasn’t the hurricane—it was a tornado. And that’s how Lacey and Gene’s story went. I put them in my grandmother’s house in the small town where my family is from and described what was going on outside my window. I hope you enjoy!
