Dog Cove Chronicles Book 1 is here!!
DOG COVE CHRONICLES:
The series is set on a fictional saltwater cove in Florida featuring residents and their small businesses that sprung up around a small century-old marina.
Get to know the residents who live and love in the small coastal community of Dog Cove, Florida!While most tourists head out the causeway to the barrier island beaches, tucked back off the beaten path is a close-knit, Old Florida neighborhood wrapped around a saltwater cove with its share of small businesses and eccentric locals.O'Connor's Dog Cove Marina, Periwinkle Bed & Breakfast, Salty Dog Craft Brewery, MerMaid Yoga, Sunset Palms Senior Village, Wooftopia Doggie Daycare, and Paradise Found RV Resort may be small compared to the area's big tourist attractions, but true love, laughter and happily ever after are always waiting to be found here.
The Dog Cove Chronicles will be out starting in early Summer 2024!❤️ Go With the Flow (June 21)
❤️ Drawn Together
❤️ Off the Deep End
❤️ Room for Love
❤️ Puppy Love in Paradise
❤️ Old Dogs, New Tricks
Book 1: Go With the Flow
"You don’t choose your relatives – that’s just who the gene pool lottery sticks you with. Friends are those you choose to spend your 'stuff in common' time with. Family are those you choose to let yourself bond hearts with – for no needed logical reason other than you didn’t know how hard it was to breathe without them before. Just trust your soul to know better than your brain, boy."
- Clay O'Connor
Go With the Flow is Book 1 of the Dog Cove Chronicles, featuring sweet, clean romance found in a small, close-knit saltwater community where “family” is more about bonds of friendship and people who stand by you than genetics.Dylan’s childhood might have led him down a very different path had he not been taken under the wing of the marina’s owner who told him he called dibs when he learned the young teen’s birth certificate listed his father as unknown.A Vietnam veteran with no children of his own, Clay always proudly introduced Dylan as his son and taught the quiet and grateful young man a lot before he died. Clay’s nephew Ed lost his own son at 9 years old, and with no desire to remarry has been grooming Dylan to take over the family’s century-old marina per his parents’ and uncle’s wishes.Ed’s mother’s matchmaking plans for this godsend to their family who helped them heal from their loss finds the perfect match for super shy Dylan to carry on their family legacy when her high-achieving granddaughter Kelly walks away from her advertising career up north to join the family business.She’d never been afraid of a challenge, but was torn between being mortified on one side since Dylan was someone she would still have no choice but to work with, and just playing along with it to call Gram’s bluff.She did inherit her family’s crazy sense of humor, after all.Maybe her grandmother knows best, and if the two let go of their pasts and just go with the flow on Gram’s little betrothal plan, they could create their own fairy tale future here together in Dog Cove?Tropes: Found family, Healing from loss, Small Town, Cinderella, Love at first sight, Midlife decisions, & Pets are family, too!
"Go With the Flow" officially published June 21, 2024!
Go With the Flow is Dylan & Kelly’s story of realizing their past is in the past and they get to decide what’s most important in their lives now, including whether to go along with her grandmother’s little matchmaking plan, for creating their own fairy tale future together.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
After 4 decades as a creative program director, professional volunteer manager, animal Reiki practitioner, and loss & grief counsellor, I have been blessed to watch many real-life transformations around me:• from both children and rescued pets overcoming shyness and blossoming after difficult beginnings,• to widows redefining themselves and healing from grief by tapping into their deepest dreams and finally pursuing them as a way to honor their lost loved ones,• and lots of light-hearted beauty of real-life comedies and things I cannot un-see throughout my career.Originally from the Northeastern U.S., I hate being cold and thus moved to Florida years ago. Toting my mother and all our dogs, cats and a pair of Japanese Bantams, we drove south into the Sunshine State like a Yankee version of the Clampetts, minus the rocking chair on the car roof. Because that was in the POD.When not drawing pet memorial portraits to help animal lovers heal from loss, you'll probably find me snuggling and spoiling my pets while writing happily ever after stories filled with eccentric yet resilient characters because that is absolutely how I love spending the bulk of my day.I still draw pet portraits under Big Black Dog Studio, still write silly Middle School humor under pen name S.Knotz, and am happy to begin publishing stories of love and resilience under my sweet romance pen name of Suzy Ryan Knotz. ❤️
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Above: Me with sun setting over my shoulder at the beach.
Below: View from back of our boat heading home to dock after a beautiful sunset taken by me August 7, 2014:
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