Haydee Miller is on the brink of panic. when she was sixteen, she swore that she’d be married by her thirty-third birthday. It’s part of Haydee’s grand Plan, which saved her sanity when her mother died and her father was too overcome by grief to remember he had a teenage daughter. The Plan has guided Haydee for half her life and never failed her. Until now.
With her birthday looming and no Prince Charming in sight, Haydee is surprised to discover that her bookstore’s newest employee is the gorgeous Goddess of Love, Venus herself.
Venus is certain that Haydee’s One True Love is the darkly handsome Derek, a world-renowned photographer who has returned to his hometown to settle down. The only problem? Derek and Haydee fell in love ten years ago—before he abandoned her without a word of farewell, leaving her with a broken heart and a secret she has never revealed.
Somehow Venus must heal this damaged woman and reunite her with her True Love. It won’t be easy. Every man in town, married or not, is pursuing Venus, even when she makes herself over into the ugliest woman on earth. Are her goddess powers malfunctioning? Can she make a Love Match without them?
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Shannon McKelden has wanted to be a writer since she got that first great grade on a short story written in elementary school.
She joined RWA and started writing her first romance novel in 1990, but real life got in the way, and that first book didn't get finished until 1999. It's still on the shelf collecting dust and will remain there for eternity.
After writing a second romance novel in 1999, Shannon found her voice in the chick lit genre. With her first chick lit manuscript, Shannon secured an agent to help advance her career, and learned a lot of patience as she continued to hone her craft for two more years...finally selling her fifth manuscript, a paranormal humorous women's fiction book called VENUS ENVY.
Shannon lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest where she freelances and works on her next book.
