Overview

In this sequel to Hurricane Season, Kelly Bradley is nearly forty and feels destined to always be alone. She meets Andi Wainwright, niece of Snowbird Elise Wainwright, while doing a woodworking job. There is an attraction, but Andi is healing from a failed relationship.

How can Andi, a woman from New York City and owner of an art gallery in SoHo, and Kelly, a middle-class Florida Girl who has no intention of ever living anywhere else, make it work?

About BJ Phillips

BJ writes novels set in her home state of Florida.

She grew up in the South, spending most of her growing up years in Florida, happily barefoot or if her mom got her way, at least in flip flops. A voracious reader, she also began writing early on. She wrote everything from poetry to short stories, most of which never saw the light of day outside her notebooks.

In the fall of 2013 she heard of "National Novel Writing Month" or the NaNoWriMo challenge. Every November, the contest idea is to write at least 50,000 words in 30 days, which means coming up with 1,667 words every single day to meet that goal. She entered the challenge and then came home from work and wrote every evening. On the day after Thanksgiving that year, she pasted her story into the NaNoWriMo word counter. She had just over 50,000 words. She was a winner!

That manuscript became the bones of her first novel, a romance eventually named Hurricane Season, which Desert Palm Press published in June, 2016. The sequel, Snowbird Season, was released in June, 2017. A third romance novel, Changing Seasons, was published in 2018.

Her latest work is a cozy-type mystery, Murder at Leisure Lakes, published in September 2020. Under construction is her next novel, Murder at the Pink Flamingo Flea Market. Her mysteries are a humorous look at life in Florida, in spite of the murders.

BJ lives with her partner, a retired police officer. Their four-legged girl, Maya (a five pound Yorkie who had no idea that she's not a big dog) passed away in February 2023. Their other little one, Piper (a Chihuahua), passed away in 2020. They live in in central Florida. When not writing or reading, she enjoys knitting and crocheting, riding around in their golf cart, stopping to chat with neighbors and friends, people watching and shopping at flea markets. She's also a big baseball and football fan (on tv only, because it's closer to the kitchen), and still finds a way to watch way too many mysteries and police shows.