One Reckless Summer
Destiny: Book 1
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“One Reckless Summer debuts an exciting romantic series that captures the intensity and passion of fated love. No one does it like Toni Blake.”
Welcome to Destiny
The perfect daughter. The perfect prom queen. The perfect wife. Jenny Tolliver’s been the good girl all her life, and it’s gotten her nowhere. Now that her marriage has been busted up by her cheating ex, she’s decided it’s time to regroup and rediscover herself. This summer she’s headed back to her hometown of Destiny, Ohio, to the very lakeshore cottage where she grew up, to figure out what life holds in store for her next.
She never dreamed the answer would be Mick Brody, Destiny’s #1 hellraiser. He comes from the wrong side of the tracks (or in his case, the lake), and he’s landed in hot water more times than he can count. He’s exactly the kind of guy Jenny’s always kept her distance from … but soon the good girl and the bad boy are caught in a raw heat that’s out of control. Too bad Mick’s got a secret that threatens to tear them apart and ruin Jenny’s perfectly, passionately reckless summer …
A Note from Toni
Awards & Honors
A Top 5 Romance of 2009 by Eloisa James at Barnes & Noble Review.
2009 Fave Contemporary Romance, Barnes & Noble’s Heart To Heart column
Finalist for the Bookseller’s Best Award
Finalist for the prestigious HOLT Medallion Award
Third place winner in the Judge A Book By Its Cover contest.
Finalist in the 2nd annual Australian Romance Readers Awards.
During the summer, my husband and I spend a lot of time at a local park, where we often picnic or relax in the sun in one particular spot next to a lake, with a view of the thick woods on the other side. I don’t know why, but for some reason, whenever I look at a wooded area for very long, I begin to wish I could see deeper into it, to see if the trees are hiding anything interesting. And that’s how I first got the idea for One Reckless Summer. One day at the park, as I studied the woods across the water, I began asking myself what could be concealed in those trees. And I began to envision a woman who lived in a house along the lake crossing over it in a canoe and finding someone else’s secrets there. And a story was born.
One Reckless Summer is the first book in my new Destiny series, stories all set in the same quaint small town of Destiny, Ohio, which I’m very excited about and I hope readers will follow the series as it unfolds. But here’s a little tidbit of insider information. 😉 When I wrote One Reckless Summer, I didn’t know it was going to start a series. So it was both fun and challenging to take a book meant to be a stand-alone story and find ways to build a foundation in it for an ongoing set of books and characters. So far, I’m thrilled with the outcome and I hope you will be, too!
