Welcome to Summer: Romance Is in the Air

Some folks treat the Memorial Day Weekend as if it is the first weekend of the summer. Perhaps it is, since summer seems to be so short a season in our area. So enjoy the restful time off and start reading those summer romances now.

A Summer Seduction by Candace Camp

When Damaris Howard, a beautiful woman surrounded by scandal who sparks his interest, is kidnapped from the London streets, Alec Stafford, the Earl of Rowden, faces a dangerous plot as he works to rescue her. Historical romance.

Summer at Mustang Ridge by Jesse Hayworth

Recently divorced Shelby takes a summer job cooking at a dude ranch in the hopes that the country will help her troubled daughter, and finds herself tempted to stay longer when she falls for the head wrangler, Foster. Contemporary romance.

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

Desperate to save her family from ruin, Annabelle Peyton plans to use her beauty and wit to marry a wealthy aristocrat, but her plans are undermined by the intriguing Simon Hunt, who offers seduction but not marriage. Historical romance.

Home for the Summer by Mariah Stewart

When Lucy Sinclair returns home to St. Dennis to plan a celebrity wedding, she reconnects with Clay Madison, her best childhood friend, and finds friendship deepening into love as she tries to overcome a past tragedy. Contemporary romance.

Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis

After losing her job in a high-end celebrity salon in San Diego, courtesy of an unethical boss, cosmetologist Lily Danville is back in the Rockies at Cedar Ridge to take a temporary job at the local ski resort's spa. But the guilty memory of her sister's tragic mountain climbing death and Lily's own feelings for firefighter Aidan Kincaid, whom her sister adored, make staying impossible. Yet Aidan is determined to change her mind. Contemporary romance.

Have a lovely "first" summer weekend and enjoy a good book!