Dear Maggie. I will always love you...Keep me safe in your heart. --Rob. His letters thrilled her as a young woman in love for the first time, and now, many years later, they mean more than ever to Maggie McIntyre. After her husband of twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, it's the discovery of Robbie's letters that gives Maggie a renewed sense of purpose: to return to Little Bear Lake and recapture the woman she once was--the woman she knows she could be again. But time has changed the place she knew and loved. The Harvest Moon dance hall where she worked as a waitress is closed. Still, Maggie is determined to reopen it, with the help of friends and a special man who enters her life in a most unexpected way. As they work together to make her dream come true, a powerful attraction develops between them. Maggie struggles with her feelings for a younger man whose age stands in the way of her growing affection for him. But their passion is undeniable, and soon she will have to decide which is more important to her: what other people think, or what she feels in her heart.

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Literature & Fiction

McKinnon, K.C.

United States

DOUBLEDAY

The author of Dancing at the Harvest Moon returns to her roots in Maine with this atmospheric, heart-wrenching story of love and loss. In Candles on Bay Street, K. C. McKinnon immerses readers in the rhythms of small-town life in Fort Kent, Maine, a close-knit community that finds many of its most cherished beliefs thrown into question when a hometown girl returns after a long absence. The narrator is Sam Thibodeau, the town veterinarian, whose world is turned upside down when his childhood friend and lifelong crush, Dee Dee Michaud, comes back to town. Dee Dee was always the town flirt, a beautiful, boisterous girl whose spirit couldn't be contained by such a small community. After high school she'd roared off in a sleek Corvette "the color of the sun" at the side of Bobby Langford, the kind of guy who looked great behind the wheel of a flashy car. Resettling in Fort Kent years later with her son Trooper--the mysterious Bobby having disappeared long ago--Dee Dee starts a candle-making business and soon acquires an avid local following. But why, in the midst of reunions with old friends and a successful business start-up, does she seem so distant? What secret is she keeping from everyone who holds her dear? In this exquisitely crafted, ultimately uplifting novel, K. C. McKinnon beautifully captures the poignance of growing older, the comforting joys of friendship, and the glories of love in its many guises.

Candles on Bay Street

At forty-five, Maggie McIntyre has been abandoned by her husband for a much younger woman. But some old letters in the attic from the first love in her life remind her of the precious summers she spent at the Harvest Moon dance hall so many years ago.Now she is returning to Little Bear Lake, to the peace of the northern wilderness, hoping to recapture the woman she once was--and the woman she knows she could be again. But time has changed the place she knew. Until a second chance at love makes an unexpected appearance. . . .

Romance

Fawcett

Candles On Bay Street

In the close-knit community of Fort Kent, Maine, Sam Thibodeau carries a flame for the boisterous and very beautiful Dee Dee Michaud. Until she roars off in a sleek Corvette with the local bad boy, beginning a new life far from home.Now, fifteen years later, Dee Dee has returned, mysteriously single with a young son to raise alone. Amid rumors and whispers, she launches a candle-making business, while Sam, now married, feels his life turning upside down. For his old love is more enchanting than ever, even though an unmistakable sadness shadows her high spirits, causing folks to wonder: What secret is she keeping from those who care the most?

Ballantine Books

Review\nThis book "will move and inspire those who have loved and lost and want to love again. . . . A poignant story." 
--Nashville Banner\n"WONDERFULLY ATMOSPHERIC, EVOCATIVE . . . Although The Bridges of Madison County and Harvest Moon share a rural setting, an emphasis on music, and a midlife love story, the resemblance ends there. Harvest Moon is by far the superior." 
--The Raleigh News & Observer\n"This is a gentle romance, but on a grander scale it is about a woman's search for herself outside the confines of traditional expectations." 
--Los Angeles Times\nFrom the Paperback edition.\nFor some people, there comes a day when every dream they ever piled up over the years, every good intention rises up in rebellion against the life they've been living. It can happen on the subway, behind the wheel of a car, while standing on a bridge looking down at the water. It can occur at the Laundromat, a bingo parlor, at McDonald's. Maybe it's the smell that reminds you of an earlier day when you still dared to dream. Or it might be an old song that brings back to you your younger self However and whenever it happens, one thing is certain: you die and then you're reborn.\n"Dear Maggie, I will always love you...Keep me safe in your heart. Rob."\nHis letters thrilled her as a young woman in love for the first time, and now, many years later, they mean more than ever to Maggie McIntyre. After her husband of twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, it's the discovery of Robbie's letters that gives Maggie a renewed sense of purpose: to return to Little Bear Lake, to recapture the woman she once was--the woman she knew she could be again.\nBut time has changed the place she knew and loved. The Harvest Moon dance hall where she worked as a waitress is closed. Still, Maggie is determined to reopen it, with the help of friends and a special man who enters her life in a most unexpected way. As they work together to make her dream come true, a powerful attraction develops between them. Maggie struggles with her feelings for a younger man whose age stands in the way of her growing affection for him. But their passion is undeniable, and soon she will have to decide what's more important to her what other people think or what she feels in her heart.

Random House Audio |

Black hardcover book with gold and tan sleeve. Author K.C. McKinnon whi also wrote Dancing at the Harvet Moon.

Contemporary

Doubleday Direct

At forty-five, Maggie McIntyre has been abandoned by her husband for a much younger woman. But some old letters in the attic from the first love in her life remind her of the precious summers she spent at the Harvest Moon dance hall so many years ago.Now she is returning to Little Bear Lake, to the peace of the northern wilderness, hoping to recapture the woman she once was--and the woman she knows she could be again. But time has changed the place she knew. Until a second chance at love makes an unexpected appearance. . .

Dancing At the Harvest Moon

Bantam/Doubleday/Dell

A middle-aged woman returns to the lakeside Canadian town where she had left her first love for another man

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Wheeler Pub Inc

A portrayal of small-town life chronicles the efforts of Sam Hebert, the veterinarian of Fort Kent, Maine, to understand the secrets of Dee Dee Michaud, the beauty who left town only to return years later to begin a candle business

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Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Candles on Bay Street

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Candles on Bay Street

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Candles On Bay Street

Dancing At the Harvest Moon

Dancing at the Harvest Moon

Candles on Bay Street