Please give a warm welcome to Linda Griffin.
She is her with her book, Reluctant Hearts. Let's check it out!
Linda was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. She began her career as a reference and collection development librarian in the Art and Music Section of the San Diego Public Library and then transferred to the Literature and Languages Section, where she had the pleasure of managing the Central Library’s Fiction collection and initiating fiction order lists for the entire library system. Although she also enjoys reading biography, memoir, and history, fiction remains her first love. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—she enjoys Scrabble, movies, and travel.
Her earliest ambition was to be a “book maker” and she wrote her first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot stolen from a comic book, at the age of six. She broke into print in college with a story in the San Diego State University literary journal, The Phoenix, but most of my magazine publications came after she left the library to spend more time on her writing.
Her stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, Thema Literary Journal, Avalon Literary Review, The Nassau Review, and Orbis, and in the anthologies Short Story America, Vol. 2, The Captive and the Dead, and Australia Burns.
Member of RWA, Authors Guild, and Sisters in Crime.
Publication date: April 24th 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary,
Four couples, four stories: Darien Francis and Richard Li meet during a bank robbery, but she’s afraid to love again. Shane Kenniston and Beth Parker are reacquainted years after she had a crush on him, but she is a recent widow, and Shane’s life was upended by a false accusation. David Early and Kate Howard meet in the Laundromat, but her life is consumed by the needs of her disabled child, and David isn’t ready for the responsibility. Realtor Frank Ellison meets Kayla Barnes at an open house, but a mistaken first impression derails any chance of romance. Can they all overcome the obstacles to love?
EXCERPT
From
“House Hunters”:
Her shape had never bothered him before. But
right now, it was distracting him to know she had that lovely, decidedly female
body under her jeans and sweater. He turned his head toward her, and she looked
up at him, and he leaned in to kiss her.
“Don’t,” she said, but she kissed him back. The gesture was more friendly than passionate, but her lips were soft and sweet all the same. He knew it wasn’t supposed to be happening, but he couldn’t remember why, and he liked it—more than he liked the Canaletto.
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