Sparked
by Love
A
Holiday for Romance Series
By: Peggy Bird
Blurb
Some fussy
artist is making Shannon Morgan’s job with the city of Vancouver, Washington
harder than it should be. She’s organizing the huge annual Independence Day
celebration and he’s being impossible. But then, he’s like a couple other men
she’s known—her mostly absent father and her disappearing ex-boyfriend, for
example.
All Leo
Wilson wants is an okay for his plans to install glass fireworks at Fort
Vancouver on the Fourth of July. With thousands of people there to see his
work, it could be his big career break. If the crabby bureaucrat will get him
the permits he needs.
When Leo
confronts the cause of his trouble in person he’s surprised to find a beautiful
young woman. Shannon is equally surprised at meeting a sweet, sexy man. Dinner,
a movie and a few torrid kisses take it from spark to flame.
But then the
father she’s always wanted as part of her life reappears, accompanied by her
ex-boyfriend. Shannon has to decide how far she’s willing to go to have her
father around. And find out why he’s with her ex.
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Holiday for Romance
I’m a sucker for a holiday. Name any
one and I can pull out decorations and special menus for the day so fast your
head will spin like that possessed kid in “The Exorcist.” I have hearts to
string for Valentine’s Day (and a heart shaped brownie dessert to make), flags
to fly for the Fourth of July (and a red-white-and-blue cake to serve at the
picnic), ghosts and goblins to display for Halloween (and a graveyard cake for
the family to share) and boxes of Christmas decorations and cookie recipes.
Every now and then, as I sort my way
through the Easter egg tree strand to find the New Year’s Eve hats and horns, I
wonder why I’m so obsessed. Then I remember the pleasure I get from looking
around my clean, decorated house, smelling whatever I’ve cooked for the meal
ahead, anticipating the arrival of loved ones and friends to mark a pause in
our ordinary lives for something special. Or as Wikopedia says, to mark “a day set aside
by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work,
are suspended or reduced.”
It’s also true I think sharing those
special days with someone you love is romantic. How many engagements begin with
a ring as a birthday gift? Or romances start with a kiss on New Year’s Eve? How
many friends turn into lovers after a special Valentine’s Day dinner? Or deeper
feelings get unmasked at a Halloween party?
That’s the reason I wanted to write
a series of holiday romances. But more than just acknowledging the romance of
Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I wanted to explore the possibilities of romance
connected with other holidays. So, the first book in the series, “Sparked By
Love,” centers on a Fourth of July celebration. That will be followed by
Halloween, New Year’s Eve and a birthday. I have a couple ideas for
Thanksgiving and St. Patrick’s Day, too. Haven’t figured out how to make Arbor
Day romantic but I’m open to suggestions.
What do you think? What’s the most
romantic holiday?
About the Author:
Peggy Bird lives in the Pacific
Northwest where she sets most of her novels. To stay out of trouble—and the
rain—she writes stories about smart women and sexy men and creates the
occasional piece of glass art.
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