

Kyle Houseman has suffered for years due to an indiscretion which ended up in his losing his love, Olivia, forever, and his stepping up and marrying her sister, Noelle. He’s determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with-which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday. Not only did he lose her, he’s been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. So far, Brenda has raised $2.Kyle Houseman believes he’ll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who’s now married to his stepbrother. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually playing pickleball or raising funds for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease).


Her novels have made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists and won many awards, including eight Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best, the Silver Bullet and the National Reader's Choice Award.īrenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children-three girls and two boys.

But she sold that book, and the rest is history. "When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book," Brenda says. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home. It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak's career as a bestselling author-she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. For more information, go the events page of my website or sign up on my mailing list. Join Brenda at one of 32 stops when she goes on a two-month traveling bookstore (Airstream) tour across the United States-from Sacramento to Connecticut-in April and May of 2023 to celebrate the release of THE SUMMER ON THE ISLAND, which comes out April 11th.
