Carolina Home cover!

Cover sneak peek! For Carolina Home, the first in my new Dare Island series, out in July 2012. So thrilled!

Help with Character Name!

Help with character name, please! Male character is manipulative 30-something suit in Manhattan. (Names of sleazy exes welcome.) No Ms, Ts, Ls, Ss. Leave a suggestion here or on my Facebook page, be entered in a book drawing. Thanks!!!

Giveaway winners!

We have a winner! Actually, we have TWO!! Jen B and Jeana (It's a good day to be a "J"!) Ladies, I will email you, but you can also email me through my website with your snail mail addresses so I can pop your prizes in the mail. Thanks to everyone who commented and special thanks to everyone who shared or liked my Facebook page .

It's TIED WITH A BOW Release Day!

And I'm giving away TWO copies of
TIED WITH A BOW to celebrate!
Leave a comment below by this Saturday, November 5th, to be entered.

Please include an email addy so I can get in touch with you if you win. You can obscure it by writing out "at" or "dot" or whatever so evil bots won't find it. Example: virginia (at) virginiakantra (dot) com. Winners announced Sunday!

If you like this giveaway, I'd be so grateful if you would LIKE my Facebook page and recommend it to your friends.

Oh, and you can read a special sneak peek of my story here!

Carolina Home - I have cover copy!

DARE ISLAND

Virginia Kantra's breathtaking new series about family ties, second chances, the strength of community, and the power of love...

Meet the Fletchers
of Dare Island

Steady Matt, the son who stayed in CAROLINA HOME, July 2012
Ambitious Meg, the daughter who never looked back
And rebel Luke, the Marine who thought he'd never return...

Home to the Fletcher family for generations, Dare Island is a fishing village rocked by changing times-its traditions slipping away like the sands of the North Carolina coast. Single dad and fishing boat captain Matt Fletcher deferred his own dreams to support his innkeeper parents and build a future for his sixteen-year-old son. Matt has learned to weather life's storms by steering a steady emotional course...and keeping a commitment-free approach to love.

Newcomer Allison Carter came to Dare Island to escape the emotional demands of her wealthy family. The young teacher aims to build a life here, to make a lasting place for herself. She doesn't want to be another in the long line of Women Who Once Dated Matt Fletcher. It's both tempting and dangerous to believe she can be something more.

Then Matt's brother Luke makes a sudden return home, with a child of his own-and a request that will change all their lives. With a child's welfare at stake, Matt must turn to Allison to teach him to let go of the past, open his eyes...and follow his heart.

Lady Jane's Salon-RDU

I'm very excited to be part of the second ever meeting of
Lady Jane's Salon Raleigh-Durham on
Wednesday, October 26
7:00 pm
Hibernian Restaurant & Pub

1144 Kildaire Farm Rd
Cary NC 27511

The Triangle's very own reading salon celebrating the romance genre! Join me and fellow authors Jenna Black and Aimee Laine for an evening for readings, refreshment, and chat.
Admission is $5 or one gently used romance novel.
All proceeds to benefit the Shout Against the Whisper campaign against ovarian cancer and the Wake County Public Library system.

Book Signing, Saturday, October 8

4-5:00 pm
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
at Research Triangle Park, Durham

With
Cherry Adair, Riptide
Katharine Ashe, In the Arms of a Marquess
Jenna Black, Glimmerglass
Lydia Dare, Never Been Bit
Sabrina Jeffries, How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Emma Lang, Restless Heart
Deb Marlowe, How to Marry a Rake
Emilie Rose, Her Tycoon to Tame
Beth Williamson, Devils on Horseback: Lee

and me, Virginia Kantra. I'll have the whole Sea series available, including my RITA winning novella "Shifting Sea," if anyone's looking for a particular book.

Click for directions.

Would love to see some familiar faces!