Baby, I'm Back (a Southern Roads Short Story) - Plot & Excerpts
This story is set in Sweetness, Georgia, a town where I’ve set other stories in my Southern Roads series, published by Mira, which is an imprint of Harlequin. This short story is also in the SEAL of MY DREAMS multi-author anthology that was first published in November 2011. The Southern Roads series features the Armstrong brothers who decide to rebuild their hometown in the Georgia mountains that was destroyed ten years earlier by a tornado. They’re making progress with the army of men they’ve hired to resurrect the town from rubble—until the men threaten mutiny from the lack of female company! The brothers decide to advertise for women with a “pioneer spirit”...and they wait. This series is my tribute to the Here Come the Brides TV show from the 60s—I really loved writing it. Strangely, some of the early pushback from the publisher on the series was who would believe an entire town could be demolished by a tornado? Then with sad irony, life imitated art—just as the books were being released in 2011 came the horrific tornadoes that struck Joplin, Missouri, and throughout Alabama.
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