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A sure bet for lovers of contemporary romance\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n With her skill at depicting profound emotions and strong characters, Alstead returns with this highly engrossing series that\u2019s sure to tug at readers\u2019 heartstrings. \u2018In One Last try,\u2019 Jane Caulfield, an oncologist, returns to her grandmother\u2019s Iowa farm to seek a new path in her life after a difficult phase in her personal and professional life and meets Jag Winchester, a successful movie actor with an unremarkable career, who is going through a personal crisis of his own. As they fall in love, painful secrets come to surface and threaten to destroy their relationship. Alstead brilliantly balances the sadness of a potentially fatal illness with the heartwarming bonds of family and true love, and the combination is sure to make readers\u2019 hearts swell. In \u2018The First sunset\u2019 Betsy Anstead, a newly divorced single mother, falls hard for Gage Mendoza, a handsome widower and Minor League baseball coach. But circumstances are not in the couple\u2019s favor as Betsy is forced to fight a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband while Gage has his eyes set on a dream coaching position. Betsy and Gage are rich, engaging, thoroughly sketched characters, and Alstead\u2019s writing shines. \u2018Dance Me Home.\u2019 another one in Bright Lights series which can be read as a standalone, possesses all of Alstead\u2019s trademarks\u2014thoroughly sketched characters, assured writing, crisp prose, gripping plotting, and profound emotions. Lovely Adrianna, a ballerina nearing the end of her career, arrives in Ohio to heal from an injury and falls for handsome Drew Mendoza, a lawyer, haunted by his past. But when it\u2019s time to pick between her career and her love, Adrianna is unable to decide. The way Alstead\u2019s main protagonists\u2019 feelings toward each other evolve while they navigate through their personal insecurities, fears and past demons, is marvelously developed, and the relationships that eventually develop between them seem gentle yet bursting with hope. Alstead gives tremendous depth to her characters, making the books more than your average stereotypical romance reads. With its diverse cast, stellar writing, and excellent plotting, this contemporary romance series has broad appeal, and it will please lovers of both contemporary romance and women\u2019s fiction. Readers can go ahead and pluck this series off the shelves in a heartbeat. They won\u2019t be disappointed!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A sure bet for lovers of contemporary romance\u2026 With her skill at depicting profound emotions and strong characters, Alstead returns with this highly engrossing series that\u2019s sure to tug at readers\u2019 heartstrings. \u2018In One Last try,\u2019 Jane Caulfield, an oncologist, returns to her grandmother\u2019s Iowa farm to seek a new path in her life after a difficult phase in her personal and professional life and meets Jag Winchester, a successful movie actor with an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Review Website\n\nBook review: Bright Lights (3 books) by Michelle Alstead #bookreview #WritersLife #IndieAuthor #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #brightlights #michellealstead #romance","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[257299],"tags":[91,460,178,1008073,856121,309,8154],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-series-reviews","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-books","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-romance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-As","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bright Lights (3 books)<\/h2>\n
by Michelle Alstead<\/h2>\n
One Last Try<\/h2>\n
(Bright Lights #1)<\/h2>\n
Buy now <\/a><\/h4>\n
Arthur\u2019s Publishing House<\/h4>\n
Pub date January 23, 2018<\/h4>\n
ASIN B0798N9SVX<\/h4>\n
Price $1.01 (USD)<\/h4>\n
Dance Me Home<\/h2>\n
(Bright Lights)<\/h2>\n
Buy now <\/a><\/h4>\n
Arthur\u2019s Publishing House<\/h4>\n
Pub date October 18, 2019<\/h4>\n
ASIN: B07ZBMLK6V<\/h4>\n
Price $0.00 (USD)<\/h4>\n
The First Sunset<\/h2>\n
(Bright Lights #3)<\/h2>\n
Buy now <\/a><\/h3>\n
Arthur\u2019s Publishing House<\/h4>\n
Pub date September 9, 2019<\/h4>\n
ASIN B07XPDWKMS<\/h4>\n
Price $1.01 (USD)<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"