Turnagain Love

ISBN 1-57343-029-3 (Paperback)
ISBN 1-57343-010-2 (Ebook)

Affaire de Coeur - Four Stars
Scribes World Reviews - Four Stars

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First she was stuck on the island and couldn't get off; then she clung to the island and wouldn't get off... not after Jennel Foster discovered that her "rescuer," handsome Zachery Waylan, wanted her to leave immediately.

Both had been hired to remodel the vacant house on Turnagain Island in Washington State, he by the husband, she by the wife. Unable to reach their employers, Zack and Jennel must settle things between themselves.

Jennel panics when she finds there is no water, electricity or telephone on the island. She accepts Zack's offer to stay aboard his sparkling clean cabin cruiser. Each tries to out-maneuver the other while denying their growing attraction. Where are the owners who started all this in the first place? And who invited the raccoons?

Book Reviews

Affaire de Coeur - Four Stars
Stranded on a deserted island with no gas, electricity or water in the decaying cottage where she has to work, Jennel Foster has done it again. Impulsive, she hadn't asked the right questions when she had taken the job of redecorating offered by Mrs. Van Chattan in New York. Nor had she asked them about the man she had hired to bring her out to Turnagain Island. She was alone and needed to get off this island.

Zachery Whalen arrived to find himself cast as a rescuer. He had been hired by Mr. Van Chattan months ago and was setting about to put his construction plans into effect. No way was he going to have his plans changed to suit a pink and frilly lady.

Jennel knew Zach's plans were wonderful and suited an outdoors man like Mr. Van Chattan, but not for ultra feminine Mrs. Van Chatten. She had to convince him that her ideas could complement his plans. She just had to keep this job. Jennel's impulses lead to disaster. Zach suffers in frustration. He has a job to do and wants to get on with it.

Nancy Radke has talent. This first time author knows her stuff as a teller of tales and wordsmith. Turnagain Love is a wonderful study of contrasts; an exercise in love and romantic opposites.

Scribes World Reviews / J L England - Four Stars
A well-written romp through an interesting and entertaining plot, Turnagain Love has some fascinating twists and turns, some unexpected complications, and charming scenes. All together it is a fun read, with likable characters, an intricate plot, and enough sizzle to make turning the pages an imperative.

What Readers Are Saying

"I do author interviews and lots of reviews for romance and mystery magazines. I have to tell you that I absolutely love this ebook. I love it so much I'd like to interview the author for our magazine. I hope she writes a sequel... I really didn't want the setting or characters to end. It was sheer pleasure to read Nancy's romance. It made my weekend." Pamela

Nancy Radke

A former schoolteacher turned writer, Nancy grew up on a wheat and cattle ranch in the Blue Mountains of Southeastern Washington State, then lived in Alaska and Hawaii before settling near Seattle. Still a farm girl at heart, she surrounds herself with flowers, fruit trees and vegetables, and a horse and dog or two. She has two married children: a daughter whose dry humor pops up at the most unexpected times, and a son who is looking forward to selling his first novel. Her husband of over three decades is an enthusiastic supporter of her writing.

Her love for traditional romances started when she picked up a Lucy Walker novel at a library in Waikiki. The more she read, the more she wanted to write. In 1987 she sent off her first story and has been writing a book a year since. Most of her books have been romantic suspense, but starting with Turnagain Love, she will try a few more with humor.

She has been an active member of the Seattle chapter of RWA, and served as chairman of the Emerald City Writer's Conference. You can email her at rom.author@juno.com.

A True Story - by Nancy Radke

Friday night. The Emerald City Writer's Conference was ready to start and I stood at the Kirkland post office requesting the box Kim and Mary Ann had overnighted to me the box containing the disk versions of my ebook.

I had impressed upon the clerk just how important it was that I have that box Friday and not Saturday, so he told me to sit outside after the post office closed and wait while they unloaded the truck from Seattle. One look at the double-long trailer as it pulled up, and I figured I'd be camping there for the rest of the night, but it was the first thing off and he carried it over with a flourish.

What a lovely surprise inside. The crystal clear jewel boxes made my cover shine, and when I would whip one out and hold it up, telling folks my book had arrived, they would exclaim with delight. Everyone I showed it to reacted favorably, usually with "That's your book? Let me see it. Oh, these are the new electronic books. I've been wondering about them." Whereupon I would explain how they were read and what they looked like when "opened."

I had prepared for Saturday's book signing session. I was going to be thrown in with Jayne Ann Krentz and others of her caliber, so I didn't want to allow myself to be unnoticed. I printed my book cover--front and back--in color onto cardstock, and also printed several pages to show the black print with red chapter and author headings. All illustrating what a class act LionHearted had accomplished. Well worth waiting for.

My son had built me a model of a boat dock to hold my books at a book signing; I placed this on the table and taped my covers and page illustrations up on the wall behind me. Definitely an attention-getter, no one else was quite as prepared.

As people walked by to get to Jane Ann, I waved my plastic cover so that it caught the light and they just had to come over out of curiosity. I sold ten books that night, which I feel is good, given the competition and the newness of ebooks. I even sold one to an agent; which had to be a hard sell. I think if I had had a lap top, where I could have displayed the actual book on screen, with the words enlarged so they could be read across the room, I would have sold even more. But I had fun at the conference and know it will be fun to present this new way of reading to the community. I'm already lining up my first book signing at a store.