Every once in a while it occurs to me that Robin Williams is gone. It’s so sad and I am so grateful he left us many wonderful movies and television shows. Here’s hoping this is one. (It’s available through Prime if you’ve got that.)
“Boyd and his family are forced to spend Christmas at his parents’ house with his eccentric father that he has been avoiding for years. When he realizes that he left his son’s gifts at home, he and his dad must go and get them.”
This song is probably the impetus for every book I’ve written about a rock star (and most of the 80’s for me.)
Halloween is over which means it’s time for me to indulge in the Christmas movies and this is the one I plan to watch tonight.
“Dean Cain of Lois & Clark and The Dog Who Saved Christmas stars as Glenn Barrows, a recent widower doing his best to raise his young kids Elliot (Jet Jurgensmeyer) and Phoebe (Meyrick Murphy) who really miss their mom. When the Barrows adopt an adorable puppy named Belle during the holiday season, it seems that their healing may have begun. But will Glen’s dog-hating, gold-digging new girlfriend (Kristy Swanson of Big Daddy and A Christmas Wish) spoil their newfound happiness, or can Elliott and Phoebe pull off a daring Christmas Eve rescue of their beloved new pet? Haylie Duff (7th Heaven) co-stars in this heartwarming comedy about family, friendship, and a four-legged holiday miracle. ”
Dean Cain! That’s all I needed to see.
I started writing about this band in college. Their first stories spun out in the margins of my notebooks during huge lecture classes, but the singer was always a bit elusive. Mostly, I was focused on Jason and Brian. When I sat down to write novels about them Marc and Bear gelled, taking on personalities, but Ty kept himself apart. Determined to get to the root of him, I decided to start writing his story from the very beginning. The beginning before the beginning. When he was in high school and auditioning for the band. I planned to jump around and write scenes as they occurred to me, editing it together later. The first scene I wrote was Ty shopping for new clothes to audition for the hot local band and meeting Candy. Candy had been around in the other books. These guys and the people around them are very tight. Candy gave Tessa advice in Not Second Best, she had her kids at the office in Waiting For a Girl Like You when Marc came in looking for support, and she had those same children at Brian and Suzi’s wedding at the end of Let Me Be the One (which is also the beginning of Not Second Best.) She’s been moving around in the background of the whole series and when I wrote this last book I found out why.
I didn’t write the way I planned, a scene here, a scene there. I started with “Candy leaned on the cash desk and studied the burnout roaming her section.” and kept right on going to “’And you didn’t think you were qualified.’ Sandy kissed her hand before standing to hug Alex himself.” (which comes after Sandy announced that he’s handing the reins of the Touchstone empire to Candy and Marc has announced that Alex is pregnant.) Every moment of Touchstone’s rise to fame and Candy and Ty’s tumultuous relationship enthralled me. They watched all their friends find their destinies, unwilling to face the fact that they had found theirs already.
I’m sad to see them go, though I don’t think they’re ever going to leave me alone. Candy plays a big part in the second book of my next series and Maureen appears in the third. I am thrilled to have found each member of Touchstone their perfect mate.
I had actually forgotten how incredibly perfect this song was for this book. This is Ty’s theme song. He found her in high school and thought he might be missing something. Well, a lot of years later, he’s come to grips with the fact that she’s The One. Now he has to convince her. Keep Coming Back To Love on sale Tuesday!
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March 2007 to February 2008, I taught kindergarten in Seoul, South Korea. That year I also had a tutoring student. One of my little girls realized in September that at the end of the year (which in Korea is February) I would be leaving. Leaving the country, leaving her life, she’d never see me again. She was mad. I guess she wanted to get it out of the way early. Anyway, one afternoon as I was dealing with that, I was heading to my tutoring student when this song came on my iPod. Like a ton of bricks all her anger and my own sorrow at losing these kids who I loved like they were my own hit me and I nearly started to bawl in the middle of the sidewalk in Seoul. I pulled myself together and got to my appointment, but I couldn’t listen to this song for years after.
Finally, Vince falls in love! Now, I’m ready to watch the movie.
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They love each other. Will the rest of the world let them?
Reluctantly on her way to a blind date, second grade teacher Maureen detours into her mechanic’s garage because her brakes are squeaking. Her regular mechanic isn’t there, but his very intriguing brother Michael is. Michael tells her that he can’t let her drive home with her brakes in that condition and offers to take her out to dinner in his 1972 Plymouth Satellite. Maureen can’t believe how powerfully she’s attracted to this grease monkey and neither can any of her friends, but since he’s only going to be in town for a week, she doesn’t want to waste an instant.
Except that grease monkey is no grease monkey. He’s Bear D’Amato, rock n’ roll drummer and in a week he’s headed back to get ready for a world tour with his band, Touchstone. When he first meets Maureen, he just wants to go out with her a few times like a normal guy, but as the relationship deepens, he realizes he wants more than just a couple of dates. He wants a lifetime.
Maureen is shocked by his revelation, but she wants a lifetime too. Now all they have to do is convince the rest of the world.
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He’s her rock n’roll fantasy, but could he ever be more?
Half the year, Cassandra Geoffrey runs In The Pines Campground, and spends the other half alone on a West Virginia mountain. She’s not completely happy with the situation, but she loves her wacky, close-knit hometown. Besides, the man of her dreams isn’t likely to appear anytime soon—until Jason Callisto, lead guitarist for Touchstone, her ultimate fantasy crush, shows up. At her campground. It’s gotta be fate.
After being dumped by his supermodel girlfriend, Jason has been impossible to live with. Now he’s been exiled by his manager to West Virginia, before he breaks up the band on the eve of the Grammys. Clearly, Jason is Cass’s adventure of a lifetime. To him, she’s just an ego boost. . ..Or is she? With so much at stake, can they take a risk and reach for more?
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They could make beautiful music together…
Hoping to dodge a scandal that could destroy her personal life and her career, Alex fled grad school for a summer job in tiny Potterville, West Virginia. She didn’t expect the town cupids to orchestrate a “chance” meeting with Marc—a sexy, brooding rock star who appreciates her love of poetry. But Alex doubts he’ll want anything more if he discovers the indiscretion she can’t forgive herself for…
Marc came to Potterville to get some space from his band and clear his head. But before he knows it, he’s intrigued with the waitress at the local diner. Alex is not only smart and beautiful, she’s inspiring his songwriting and taking it to the next level. Soon he’s falling for her—and then she runs away. For the first time, Marc is chasing after a woman—and giving both himself and Alex a chance to heal past hurts and take a chance on the future…
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A little matchmaking mischief…
She’s the girl of his dreams, but she belongs to another man. Still, that doesn’t stop rock star Brian Ellis from standing by Suzi’s side when she needs him most. Or offering her a strong shoulder to lean on when her relationship crashes and burns. But will Brian get burned by the beautiful writer when Suzi goes back to the man she believes she loves?
Suzi has always had a crush on Brian, which doesn’t mean she’s ready to risk everything for the sake of a fling. Yet the more time she spends with him, helping the sexy single dad with his kids, she knows there’s more between them than simmering sensual tension. An invitation to join him in the sweet mountain town of Potterville, West Virginia, may be too tempting to resist. But how can Suzi give her heart when she’s already promised herself to another?
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No more solos for this heart . . .
As a lawyer at Touchstone management, Tessa’s position brings her up close and personal to some of the world’s biggest heartthrobs. Sometimes that intimacy crosses professional lines, which is understandable considering Tessa’s impressive contact list. But when rock star Brian Ellis set her aside for the girl of his dreams, Tessa can’t help wonder if “spinster aunt” is her true vocation. Which explains her hook-up with rising star Brett Cherney at Brian’s celebrity wedding . . .
As the lead singer of BroRide, Brett has lived the rock-n-roll bad-boy lifestyle to the very hilt. But when the girl of his dreams marries fellow rocker Brian Ellis, he buries his disappointment in the arms of an older woman. The following morning, Brett realizes what he experienced was only the beginning of a song he’s been trying to write all his life. It’s a seductive theme, which Tessa falls for again and again, but getting her to believe they have a hit is turning out to be far from a sure thing . . .
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A love song in the making…
He was her high school sweetheart, the man Candy once dreamed of sharing her life with. But Ty was also a rock star on the rise with a flock of pretty groupies lining up to share his bed. So what makes Ty think that now that he’s ready to settle down, Candy will be his one and only? These days the single mom is older and wiser. Still, Candy can’t help but feel a stir of something at his hot pursuit….
Ty knows he’s got a lot to prove when it comes to winning Candy back. But his rambling, rocker lifestyle has also shown him that she’s a woman worth fighting for. No one has ever come close to captivating him the way she did from the first day they met, a sweet-faced young beauty who brought out his every protective instinct. That’s why when Candy’s family is in crisis, he’s willing to risk everything for the woman he’s never stopped loving….
This is another one of those songs that I think is incredibly romantic. I heard an interview with the lead singer of Tonic and he said the song was so popular the summer it came out that he hates to hear it now. I still love hearing it so here you go.
Christa Maurice 