Kate Austin
Kate Austin has worked as a legal assistant,
a commercial fisher, a brewery manager, a teacher,
a technical writer, and a herring popper, while
managing to read an average of a book a day. Go
ahead—ask her anything. If she doesn’t
know the answer, she’ll make it up because
she’s been reading and writing fiction for
as long as she can remember.
She blames her mother and her two grandmothers
for her reading and writing obsession—all
of them were avid readers and they passed the
books and the obsession on to her. She lives in
Vancouver, Canada, where she can walk on the beach
whenever necessary, even in the rain.
For more information about Kate, visit her website.
Seeing Is Believing
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 0373881444
October 2007
RT Top Pick and Reviewer's Choice
There's a magic in life—but Ria Sterling
has yet to embrace it, because she considers her
ability to predict death from merely touching
a photograph a curse. She yearns to use her sight
to save just one life. On the other hand, tough-talking
detective Carrick Jones and his partner profess
not to care about saving anyone. But they do need
Ria's help in solving a case. Instead, she predicts
that Carrick's partner will die. Soon. And when
her vision proves true, Ria goes from psychic
to prime suspect...
The one thing she can't predict is her instant
attraction to Carrick, a man who doesn't believe
in the paranormal—only what his five senses
tell him. But when danger threatens, Ria finally
sees how to use her gift in a unique way. And
to show Carrick the inexplicable power of a love
where seeing really is believing...
Summer Dreams
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 037388138-X
July 2007
RT Top Pick
An anthology with Stevi Mittman and Jennifer
Greene.
Summertime Blues, by Kate Austin
Remember the absolute worst job you had as a teenager?
Now imagine having that job at forty. Ardella
Simpson is spending the summer doing a job she
hates so she can start working on landing the
job she loves. But this summer, for Ardella, there
ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
Who's That in the Itsy-Bitsy, Anyway? by Stevi Mittman
In this lighthearted mystery, a decorator remodeling her family's beach house discovers her mother's lost love letters…to a Mafia don!
Kokomo, by Jennifer Greene
Crazy for the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" ever since she was a carefree teen, a successful attorney decides to visit the song's namesake Caribbean island. Too bad her assistant books her a ticket to Kokomo, Indiana, instead…where there's no beach, but a former flame is about to make waves.
Last Night at the Halfmoon
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 9780373881338
May 2007
RT Top Pick
Every important event in Aimee Anouk King’s
life has taken place at the Halfmoon Drive-In
on the Sunshine Coast. She was conceived there,
had – and did not enjoy – her first
kiss there. She met Brad at the drive-in and he
proposed to her in their parking space. And following
in her mother’s footsteps, her child too
was conceived there.
Now the Halfmoon Drive-In is closing and Aimee
feels like she’s losing the one thing that
holds her life together.
And there’s absolutely nothing she can
do about it.
To make matters worse, Brad has arrived back
in Halfmoon Bay after six years and he’s
planning to stay for the summer; TJ is worried
about her daughters and her no-count husband,
and even more worried about her father; Aimee’s
father seems to be losing his mind; Hayden’s
hit the terrible twos almost nine years late;
and Aimee’s just got a phone call requesting
her biggest pottery order ever.
Will she be able to live without the drive-in?
Will TJ’s family be okay? Will Hayden get
over the tantrums and return to being his regular
sweet boyself? Will her father regain his senses?
Will the kiln hold 372 of the damn cat plates?
Will the love of her life ruin it one more time?
Right now, Aimee can't even imagine an answer
to any of these questions but, this summer, she's
going to discover them all.
Holiday Wishes
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 0373881207
December 2006
RT Top Pick
An anthology with fellow NEXT authors Stevi Mittman
and Mary Schramski.
If I Make It Through December, by Kate
Austin
From balance sheets to blue plate specials,
Heather James has a lot to learn about running
a restaurant. But a well-informed business plan
isn't enough to prepare her for the holiday rush,
or head chef Sam Cappelletti. Is lasting love
the bottom line in If I Make It Through December?
Who Needs June in December, Anyway? by
Stevi Mittman
Teddi Bayer could use some holiday magic this
year, especially since Grandma June is making
everything worse. If only there was a magical
menorah Teddi could rub, and pouf! But rubbing
it while humming "Grandma Got Run Over by
a Reindeer" seems to be having unexpected
consequences. Hum. You have to wonder…
The Perfect Christmas by Mary Schramski
Growing up as a lonely child, Gwen Anderson always
dreamed of a Christmas pulled from the pages of
a Currier & Ives illustration. She's long
since abandoned that dream. Until her mother realizes
that she didn't give her daughter enough time
as a child. And she vows to now give Gwen…
The Gossip Queens
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 0373881177
November 2006
Each summer the tourists flood the Sunshine Coast,
and the chaos doesn't stop until Labor Day. But
in-between, at the back of the Way-Inn, best friends,
Rose, Mercedes and Doris—aka the Gossip
Queens—hold court. Everyone's business is
discussed, and good sense reigns. However, lately,
it's the Gossip Queens whose doings are the talk
of the town.
Rose has a husband that loves (and cooks) like
an angel, but she's thinking adoption. Doris wants
to give her granddaughter love and laughter, but
can't take the first step. And independent Mercedes
has been worrying about her daughter's love life
for so long, she forgot to have one herself.
This summer will be remembered forever as the
year the Gossip Queens became the hottest scoop.
Love always gives people something to talk about,
right?
Awakening
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 0373881029
July 2006
RT Top Pick and Reviewer's Choice
Francesca Bond has been surviving her life much
more than she has ever really been living it.
Late one summer night, things take a terrifying
spin and she finds herself running in blind panic
through darkness and fog—straight into the
welcoming lights of a new world.
Is she dreaming? The colors, the smells, the
kindness of new friends Joshua and Marta…she
doesn’t know how far she’s run, but
she is definitely far from the reality of her
own bleak existence. Can she go home? Does she
really want to?
The answers, Francesca discovers, are wrapped
in the secrets of a destiny as powerful as her
sweetest wishes.
The Sunshine Coast News
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 0373230621
February 2006
Since when did life ever tell you where you
were going?
Josie Harris always drew comfort from the thought
that she lived a charmed life. Unexciting, perhaps,
but stable and predictable. In a rut? Josie counted
that as luck—at least one knew what would
happen next.
Then disaster struck. Her parents moved across
the country, she lost her job and, worst of all—after
more than forty years of marriage, her father
announced he was leaving her mother. Some local
hussy had lured him away! What kind of senior
community was this?
Josie knew it was time to take charge. She had
to make her parents see sense. So she drove across
to the Sunshine Coast and was soon immersed in
a new job, new community...and most of all, a
new and totally unexpected love.
Dragonflies and Dinosaurs
Harlequin NEXT
ISBN 037388074
December 2005
At forty-two and given to the occasional panic
attack, Randy Roman is taking a leave of absence
from her life. After twenty years of working at
a bank—no husband, no kids—she's hitting
the road with her teenaged nephews Mickey and
Eric. With each passing mile of prairie, farmland,
and raspberry field, Randy feels the thrill of
liberation.
Their destination is Cranberry Portage, a quaint
lakeside town her mother loved and Randy can barely
remember. But a surprise awaits them at journey's
end. Call it fate, karma, or the chance for renewal,
it will give Randy the courage to take a risk
that will change her life.
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