Hello! Sorry I skipped last week's chance to keep you in the loop, but I was busy staying out of the loop myself.

After a week of absolute solitude with my feet (and sometimes the rest of me) in a cold creek, with a margarita in hand and tunes on the Bluetooth speaker, I am here to say...why did I come back to civilization?

I mean, seriously, I wasn't even out of Tequila yet!

But I did run out of cookies and that, plus having a finished book that needed a pass from the proofer before scheduling it for pre-order, drove me to get to the other side of this mountain-- which is where the nearest town is.

So now that all that Zen-like calm and rejuvenation has been thoroughly washed away by a few days of "This is everything you missed while you were relaxing" reality-- I am back to announce the up and coming release of the next Moonshine Ridge book!

Rapid and Sage are getting their HEA in Called to the Mountain, which is book three of the Jones Brothers of Moonshine Ridge, and book seven of the Moonshine Ridge Mountain Men series.

Rapid Jones

Moonshine Ridge never had a doctor when I was growing up. Anything that Mom couldn't fix with a bandage and a kiss meant a drive down to the clinic in the valley.

Now one of the big medical groups has built a rural clinic with living quarters attached for the doctor they've stationed here.

Never paid much attention till the night I have to drag my buddy out of a bar fight with a busted nose.

When we hit the emergency call ringer on the clinic door, I'm not prepared for the woman that answers the call.

A single mom with a new medical license, determined to make a better life for herself and her son here in the mountains; Sage Everett is all business...but she's also all woman.

She needs a man who will prove to her that she deserves to be loved, and her son needs to know what a father is supposed to be.

I know I'm that man for both of them but Sage isn't quick to trust again and she's giving me an ache that no prescription can cure-- I won't be well until I can convince Doctor Everett to kiss it and make it better.

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Welcome to Moonshine Ridge and the rugged wilderness surrounding the remote mountain community where the history is long, the local lore is deep, and the men are as wild as the mountains they come from.

Protective, possessive, totally obsessed; the men of Moonshine Ridge will do anything necessary to claim the women they love and give her the happily ever after she deserves.

The Moonshine Ridge books contain a lot of insta-love, some swearing, some steamy scenes, zero cheating, and a lot of swoon-worthy happy endings. They're interconnected with recurring characters but can be read as stand-alones in any order.

Pre-Order Now!

Rapid and Sage are available for pre-order for only 99 cents and scheduled to get delivered to your device on Wednesday, July 19.

If you're the wait to read in KU type (It's OK, so am I,) look for it on Amazon on July 19!

If you've missed any of the Moonshine Ridge Mountain Man books that are already out, you can check them out here and start at the beginning with the McAllister Men.

There's only one single Jones brother left: River is the youngest and he's in the process of getting his own HEA. Expect the next Moonshine Ridge book to be available soon!

My night photography hasn't been going well for me.

One: mosquitoes. I keep getting chased back inside.

Two: the full moon. I tried to get some sweet moonrise shots but totally messed those up.

So here's a shot I got of the Milky Way a few weeks back from about the same place I took the last one I shared-- that's Platypus Rock in the foreground to the left.

But what's so awesome-sauce about this photo is the incredible green glow from the phenomenon known as "airglow."

That green is 100% actually present in the atmosphere but it's not visible to the naked eye at all.

Some night photographers aren't fans of this atmospheric phenomenon and work hard to downplay or eliminate it from their photos in processing-- I think it's amazing! And I get excited every time it shows up in one of my shots.

What's coming up next in the world of really amateur night time photography?

The Perseids meteor shower! I've never photographed falling stars on purpose so I'm going to give it a try-- no promises.

Seriously-- I take great close up photos of flowers with my phone, guys. That's my photography comfort zone.

Ironically, I take awful close-up flower pics with the big DSLR!

~Rocklyn