Around the Fire Book & Author Blog. Today's guest is Liz Flaherty, USA Today Best Selling Author.

Welcome back to Around the Fire. We've had a few campfires where I'm visiting in Northern Florida. It's one of the few places that doesn't have a fire ban due to drought, though we're mostly using the propane fire pit. One night, we pulled out the special rug my daughter-in-law bought us and put it in front of the camper. We call this sitting on the front porch. I had my rocker and made snacks. Soon people showed up, some carrying their chairs other grabbing a seat from the chairs we pulled out. We talked, laughed, and made others passing by dance. A good time was had by all. Now, let's welcome today's guest. Liz and I are dealing with common themes. I republished both Rainbow Sprinkles and Rock House Grill after my publisher returned my rights. Things happen with books. After you read about Liz's journey, I hope you'll visit my books page and check out the new covers. So, without further ado, please welcome Liz back to the fire.
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I do love an evening around the fire! Thanks for letting me come again, D. V. I brought some rice crispy treats to share. They’re gloriously sweet and sticky.
Every time I release a book that was formerly with a publisher, I feel like I do when I buy a new puffer jacket. I get a new one every few years, with very few differences beyond color and the brand that’s on the tag in the back. But I love them, and I wear them until they aren’t warm enough anymore. Then, with every intention of finding something else for my go-to jacket, I buy another one.
With the book, I think I should be releasing something altogether new, but Pieces of Blue, first released in 2024 and the victim of publisher closure soon after, ended up being Book One of a series: Colors, the Harper Loch Trilogy. I was afraid by the time Books Two and Three came out, Book One would have been forgotten. While they stand alone, the tidy part of me—which is mostly imagined, by the way—thinks they should be read in order.
So I re-released it. It has a pretty new cover by Nancy Fraser that, like my puffer jackets, it’s different, but still representative of the Burl, Maggie North’s big house on Harper Loch.
D. V. mentioned that I should give my top three reasons to read Pieces of Blue.
Only three? But there are so many! 😊
First and primary to me is that Maggie North is a combination of all the favorite women in my life. Sister, sisters-in-law, and old friends. She has a bit of Anne Shirley in her and a stubborn chunk of Jo March as well. I like her. I like her a lot.
Second? The people at the lake. There are only 86 of them, and although I didn’t introduce them all, I admit you’ll meet quite a few.
Third, there’s Sam. I’ll let you decide for yourself what you think of him. I will say he’s warm and comfortable and … oh, wait, no, that’s my jacket. Anyway, be sure and let me know!

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Life comes in shades of blue...
Self-imposed loner, Maggie North, has worked for bestselling author Trilby Winterroad her entire adult life, starting as simply his assistant and ending up as his ghost writer. Through ups and downs--including a divorce from an abusive husband--he has been the one person on whom she could always rely. So when Trilby dies suddenly, Maggie finds herself adrift, not sure what she’ll do or where she belongs in the world any longer. And the confusion continues when she discovers he’s not only left her his beloved dachshund, Chloe, but a house she knew nothing about, on a lake she’s never heard of.
It only takes one visit for Maggie to fall in love with both the house and the small lakeside community. The longer she’s there, the safer she feels and the more her life begins to expand...as do her feelings toward her friend and Trilby’s attorney, Sam Eldridge.
But is she really safe? Or are the glistening pieces of her new life about to shatter as an old danger returns?
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About the Author.
Liz Flaherty has spent the past several years enjoying not working a day job, making terrible crafts, and writing stories in which the people aren’t young, brilliant, or even beautiful. She’s decided (and has to re-decide most every day) that the definition of success is having a good time. Along with her husband of lo, these many years, kids, grands, friends, and the occasional cat, she’s doing just that. Find her on Facebook or her blog, Window Over the Sink. A girl just can’t have too many friends! She’s at other places, too—find her via https://linktr.ee/lizflahert

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