Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Dear Ms. Moyer,

When I first read “The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch,” I was blown away by it. Loved the characters, loved the setting, loved the book. Since then, I’ve had my ups and downs with the Lucy Hatch series. But “Return of the Stardust Cowgirl” felt like coming home after a long time away. You know, when you finally get back to what you remember, and the people you grew up with and the place where you come from? Sure, things have changed since you left, people have aged, nothing stays the same but it just feels like you’re wrapped up in warmth and love and forgiveness, no matter what’s gone on in the interim.

Like all the other novels in the series, the action centers on the small east Texas town of Mooney. Stuck out in the piney backwoods, many things are just as I remember them - Lucy’s aunt Dove’s fabulous garden, Lucy’s prickly mother, her two solid brothers along with their wives and children. But life flows on and the town is shrinking as people move away to find work. Faye’s flower shop - which has …

Dear Ms Moyer,

When Jane told me that she’d received an advanced copy of your latest book, Heartbreak Town, I was thrilled. I love the first in the trilogy The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch” I really like The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels and was eager to see what’s in store next for Lucy, Ash, Denny, Jude and the citizens of Mooney, TX. You’d left me with a ton of questions at the end of “Angels” and I needed answers.

It was good to see old friends and faces back in Mooney. Some had changed and others hadn’t changed at all. What had happened in the few years interval since book two was Ash’s meteoric rise and fall on the Nashville music scene. Initial success hadn’t translated into lasting fame for him and the bottle was eroding the wonderment of Ash and Lucy’s marriage. When she thought it was the only option left to her, Lucy had packed up their son Jude, …