Releasing August 15 is the next Tabor Heights novel, BEHIND THE SCENES. You can get it NOW, early, here on the Ye Olde Dragon Books website.
PLUS: if you buy BEHIND THE SCENES here, either in ebook or audio, you’ll get a free download of the “before” story, how Joel Randolph and Emily Keeler met, fell in love, and created Homespun Theater: HOMESPUN.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Tony and Max are best friends. Writing partners. People swear he doesn’t know she’s a girl and she doesn’t know he’s a boy. When Tony goes away for a few months as a teacher, he realizes that empty place inside is Max-shaped. His revelation isn’t something he can tell her over the phone. Every idea to tell her how he feels sounds like the plot for a book they would never write.
Then Max’s parents are nearly killed in an accident. Tony drops everything to come home and be there for her and her brothers. He’ll just have to wait until things calm down before he confesses his love. The only problem is, between the accident and the usual chaos of running a community theater and the world suddenly “discovering” where Max’s mother, actress Emily Keeler has been “hiding” for the last twenty-five years, things might never calm down.
All Tony can do is prove his love by being her rock, drop lots of hints, and look for the best opportunity to make his case. Before the new guy in the tech crew makes his move. He’s certainly been paying a lot more attention to Max than Tony is comfortable with.
Max has tried for a long time now not to want more, and closer, than what she and Tony have. With all the chaos of holding together Homespun Theater, staging a new production, and dealing with the paparazzi invasion, she shouldn’t have time for useless wishing and dreams that can only get her into trouble. And yet …
HOMESPUN: A Tabor Heights story before the stories.
Joel Randolph had worked as set designer and technical director for the Allegheny Alpine theater doing summer stock for years. He was happy with his life, but ready to settle down and start his career as a teacher.
Then Emily Keeler joined the cast and crew. Just a few years before, she had been a rising starlet in Hollywood. Then she simply vanished. Yet here she was doing summer stock, accompanied by her five-year-old daughter, Max, and her elderly Aunt Maxine.
As Emily and Joel worked together and became friends, they shared pieces of their lives with each other, their heartaches and dreams. Joel didn’t want to lose Emily, Max, and Maxine when the summer ended, but he had to go to Butler-Williams University, and Emily had to go on to her next acting job. They kept in touch and missed each other. As Joel got to know the town of Tabor Heights, a dream took root in his heart: a community theater that he called Homespun. When Emily came to BWU as a guest speaker, Joel dared to share his dream with her. And ask her to stay.