Although this anthology has been out for a month, I’m still excited to share it with you. Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Vol. 3 is a charity anthology whose proceeds will be donated to Wounded Warrior Project®. This anthology is filled with charming and romantic stories that are centered around Memorial Day Weekend and includes tropes such as instalove, forced proximity, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, unexpected proposals (and maybe a secret baby), unrecognized billionaires, brother’s best friend, and more.
My story in this anthology, One Night by Firelight, is a new novella in my Kingsmill Courtships series starring Abe Mosby, a former Army Ranger trying to find his place in the world, and Daphne Thibodeaux, a prima ballerina desperate to discover who she is offstage as well as on. This is a romantic and poignant romance of two lost souls terrified they will never find their happily ever after… until they end up at the same wedding deep in the Virginia mountains. This story takes place during Memorial Day weekend, with wedding disasters, an outlaw motorcycle club causing chaos, and all the quirkiness one finds in a small town where everyone is involved in everyone else’s business. This novella is filled with love, laughs, and may even make you tear up– but in a good way. I hope you enjoy it!!
P.S. If you’ve read my novella A Christmas Cabin Proposal found in the Snowed in with You Anthology, One Night by Firelight is the story of how Abe and Daphne met and fell in love… and almost lost each other in the process.
Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Vol. 3
A Contemporary Military Romance Anthology
Sacrifice. Valor. Patriotism.
They fought courageously on the battlefield. Now they’re fighting for love.
We are a group of Veterans and Veterans’ family members who are also bestselling and award-winning romance authors. We put our group together to publish a yearly limited edition, military romance collection set around various holidays. Each volume supports a military and veteran related charity.
We’re excited to bring you our third collection, which supports Wounded Warrior Project®, whose mission is to empower wounded service personnel through programs and services such as long-term rehabilitative care, mental health care, and career counseling.
“Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for.” Lyndon Johnson, 1966. And so it is on Memorial Day that we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and our freedom.
These stories embody sacrifice and resilience, passion and love, and the enduring human spirit. Enjoy these military romances of various tropes set around the Memorial Day holiday.
This “must have” collection is only available for 6 months after launch day, then it’s gone for good as we prepare for Volume 4!
Participating authors include Dania Voss, Laura M. Baird, D.C. Stone, Megan Michelle, and Sharon Wray.
Find us online and get all the details about the Heroes, Holidays, and Hope Project!
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Wounded Warrior Project®
One Night by Firelight
She’s looking for a way forward. He’s searching for what he left behind. Neither expected to find each other… or a lifetime of love.
After years on the front lines as an Army Ranger, Abe Mosby isn’t used to standing still. But when a half-truth sends him chasing whispers of his missing mother in Sleepy Hollow, New York, he ends up waist-deep in floodwaters while pulling a ballerina out of a sinking car.
Daphne Thibodeaux thought a weekend in the mountains of Kingsmill, Virginia for her best friend’s Memorial Day wedding might help her reset. After a career-ending injury stole her spotlight, she’s been lost, uncertain, and craving solid ground… until she meets the handsome soldier who saves her life.
Abe is all hard edges and restless energy. Daphne is grace under pressure. Yet one look, one dance, and one lightning strike of a connection forces them to confront feelings neither one understands.
But when family secrets and an outlaw MC’s trouble catches up to them in Kingsmill, the storm that brought them together might tear them apart—unless they’re willing to fight for the unexpected future they’ve only just begun to imagine.
