Like a Soft Sweet Breeze
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He has a great house on the lake, he loves his business and what it does for his clients, and he has a great bunch of friends. Life is good.
Okay, so he doesnât have a woman. He doesnât need one. Doesnât think heâd want one. Heâs finally building a real relationship with his daughter. But sheâs the only woman he can see in his future.
When Alexandria DuPont walks into the gym, all Russ sees is a stressed-out, aloof woman â but even then, he senses that thereâs more to her. Perhaps sheâs an acquired taste, like fine wine.
Alexandria DuPont is not in Summer Lake by choice, but of necessity.
Some people might not see it as necessity, but she most certainly does. Sheâs recuperating. She was rushed into the hospital at home in Napa just before Christmas with a suspected heart attack.
It wasnât a heart attack. It might almost have been easier to face people if it were. But no, it was an anxiety attack. Her father would turn in his grave! He raised her to be stronger than that.
So, sheâs in Summer Lake to recuperate â sheâs not hiding out, not really.
Sheâs supposed to be taking it easy, but she doesnât know how. Sheâs the matriarch of DuPont Wineries. She runs the company, itâs what she was raised to do, all sheâs ever known.
A trip to the local gym is outside her comfort zone. The attraction she feels toward Russ is even further outside her comfort zone. As their friendship grows, Russ makes her wonder whether it might be time to leave her comfort zone behind and step into a whole new life.
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Summer Lake Silver series features couples in their fifties and older. Just because a few decades - or more - have skipped by since you were in your twenties it doesnât mean you canât find love, does it? Summer Lake Silver stories find happily ever afters for those who remember being thirty-somethingâvaguely.
Like Some Old Country Song - Clay and Marianne
A Dream Too Far - Seymour and Chris
A Little Rain Must Fall - Ted and Audrey
Where the Rainbow Ends - Diego and Izzy
Silhouettes Shadows and Sunsets â Manny and Nina
More Than Sometimes â Cal and Teresa
Like a Soft Sweet Breeze - Russ and Alexandria
Coming Next
When Words Are Not Enough â Adam and Evelyn
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Hi, I'm SJ, a coffee addict, lover of chocolate and drinker of good red wines. I'm a lost soul and a hopeless romantic. Reading and writing are necessary parts of who I am. Though perhaps not as necessary as coffee! I can drink coffee without writing, but I can't write without coffee.
I grew up loving romance novels, my first boyfriends were book boyfriends, but life intervened, as it tends to do, and I wandered down the paths of non fiction for many years. My life changed completely a couple of years ago and I returned to Romance to find my escape.
I write 'Sweet N Steamy' stories because to me there is enough angst and darkness in real life. My favorite romances are happy escapes with a focus on fun, friendships and happily-ever-afters, just like the ones I write.
These days I live in beautiful Montana, the last best place. If I'm not reading or writing you'll find me just down the road in the park - Yellowstone. I have deer, eagles and the occasional bear for company, and I like it that way.
