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CH Admirand, From Pleasure, TX to Apple Grove, OH…why the leap?
Author Guest / November 16, 2012

I’m a huge fan of cowboys and a broad-shouldered man with calluses on his hands…that being said, why am I making the leap from Pleasure, Texas and those gorgeous cowboys (my series, The Secret Life of Cowboys finished up this past summer: TYLER, DYLAN and JESSE)? It’s simple, my editor asked if I’d be interested in writing a small town series for Sourcebooks. Why not take a change to spread my wings and test the waters that has an element that I grew up with: Small Town. The interesting thing about small towns is that one can grow up in an isolated neighborhood that seems like a town all by itself—which is exactly what my hometown, Cedar Hill, was…a group of 25 or so homes on dead-end streets… If you didn’t leave there, why go there? We always knew when someone didn’t belong, we knew our friends’ parents cars and that of the other residents. I’ve spent the last thirty years living in Lindy’s Lake a small lake community in New Jersey. We bought our first house here and have raised our family here. When we first moved in there were long-time residents and newbies, like ourselves. Five of us…