Hers By Request

Book One in the Blue Point Cove Series

Finalist in the 2015 Rone Awards

Hers by Request is the first in a series of contemporary romances set in Blue Point Cove, a small resort town on the Chesapeake Bay where there are two new residents, one shocking secret, and a boatload of guilt.

The tragic death of Amanda’s fiancé in Afghanistan eight months ago sent her back to the cottage where she’d spent her childhood summers to heal her heart and start a new life. Her accounting business was off to a slow start and the summer cottage was losing the battle with Maryland’s winter weather. The one thing that got her through many a cold, sleepless night was the warm voice of a local deejay and the songs he played.

Devlyn MacMurphy had finally been released from Walter Reed. The damage to his arm from the roadside bomb did more than destroy his career, it became the never-ending reminder that his best friend had given his life to save him. Now, instead of playing the piano, he played deejay on the late-night request hour he called Dev’s Dream Machine. It is past time to keep the promise he’d made Danny in Afghanistan, but when the woman he is supposed to look after turns out to be one of his frequent callers, his survivor guilt starts its own war –against the instant attraction he feels for Amanda Adams. When they meet by accident – literally – he’s given only a few seconds to decide– is honesty always the best policy?

“A must-read romantic mystery for the ages!”— Ind’Tale Magazine

Since the first Blue Point Cove book revolves around Dev and  Amanda getting to know each other through songs, some of my readers have requested a song list from the book. Most of these tunes are quite old and my younger readers may never have heard them before, so I’ve added You Tube links so you can hear (many of) them in their original glory. Enjoy!

• **Skylark – Woody Herman
• **Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – Ella Fitzgerald
• **Walking My Baby Back Home – Nat ‘King’ Cole
• * Someone to Watch Over Me – Ella Fitzgerald
•  **For All We Know – Nat ‘King’ Cole
• *My Funny Valentine – Frank Sinatra
• **You Don’t Know Me – Michael Buble
• *In The Mood – Andrews Sisters
• *Someone to Watch Over Me – Ella Fitzgerald
• Dream – The Pied Pipers
• *Serenade in Blue – Ray Eberle
• **Dream a Little Dream of Me – Doris Day
• Wouldn’t It Be Nice– Beach Boys
• A Kiss to Build a Dream On – Louis Armstrong
• I Had the Craziest Dream – Vera Lynn
• Imagination – Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey
• *My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time – Doris Day
• **The Very Thought of You – Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey
• *Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off – Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
• **You’re the Top – Ella Fitzgerald
• **Moonlight Becomes You – Bing Crosby
• *The Nearness of You – Jo Stafford
• Stormy Weather – Billie Holiday
• **Nevertheless – The Mills Brothers
• **You Made Me Love You – Judy Garland
• **All Of Me – Frank Sinatra
• **You’ll Never Know – Michael Buble
• **Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup – Nat “King” Cole
• ** You Always Hurt the One You Love – The Mills Brothers
• **Have I Told You Lately – Bing Crosby
• **I Could Write a Book – Frank Sinatra
• *The Man I Love – Lena Horne
• **Time After Time – Frank Sinatra

*Requested by Amanda  **Played by Dev