Dancers & Lighthouses

Caroline was a relevé away from becoming prima ballerina when, partly due to her own actions, she was injured enough to end her ballet career. With a strong determination, along with some help and hindrance from her antisocial tendencies, Caroline returns to her beloved Folly Beach, finds a grittier dancing job, and makes up her mind to land on top.Due to a disfiguring facial scar, Dio hides away on his South Carolina farm during the day, where keeping watch over his aging and mentally failing mother strains his time and energy. Venturing into Charleston only for his night job in a strip club allows him to keep needed contact with others while maintaining distance.When the two collide amid the glow of the lights from the pier, their personal scars push them away, and pull them in, like the ebb and flow of the Atlantic.(Second edition ©2018) Ella M. Kaye uses her art and psychology background to create contemporary love stories with mental health issues set around the creative arts. Each of her novels and novellas fall under one of three series: Dancers & Lighthouses, Artists & Cottages, and Songwriters & Cities. Kaye has been writing romantically inclined literary fiction that branches into straight mainstream in both novel and short story form under the name LK Hunsaker for more than two decades. After many moves as a military spouse, she is settled in western Pennsylvania where she enjoys the abundant foliage and recreational lakes along with the hilly vistas.Find her at EllaMKaye.com Contemporary Literary Romances with mental health issues, featuring a variety of dance genres and set on beaches around the US.

Delaney Griffin welcomed her sister's large family into her small home when they were displaced by Hurricane Sandy. With five noisy kids and an overbearing brother-in-law threatening her sanity, Delaney spends much of her free time cleaning up the wildlife refuge and helping at the local food bank. Still, the lack of privacy, along with having no space to dance, her only passionate release, causes her debilitating social anxiety to escalate.Eli Forrester has come from small town Indiana to Barnegat, New Jersey with his company to help restore the coast. A high-rise worker who loves new people and new places, he fears nothing, except water. When he accidentally kicks one of the sea critters Delaney is trying to help rescue, Eli is drawn to the quiet New Jersey girl. Unwilling to take her cues to leave her alone, he is alternately put off and turned on by her odd behavior.Under shadow of devastation, fear, and forced separation, Delaney and Eli search for their own rescue light. Ella M. Kaye uses her art and psychology background to create contemporary love stories with mental health issues set around the creative arts. Each of her novels and novellas fall under one of three series: Dancers & Lighthouses, Artists & Cottages, and Songwriters & Cities. Kaye has been writing romantically inclined literary fiction that branches into straight mainstream in both novel and short story form under the name LK Hunsaker for more than two decades. After many moves as a military spouse, she is settled in western Pennsylvania where she enjoys the abundant foliage and recreational lakes along with the hilly vistas.Find her at EllaMKaye.com Contemporary Literary Romances with mental health issues, featuring a variety of dance genres and set on beaches around the US.

When her niece is diagnosed with autism, Emma Turner chooses to support her sister, a single mom, and is served divorce papers by her possessive husband who doesn't intend to let her go. Moving from Boston to Provincetown, Massachusetts, Emma teaches fifth grade during the week and takes care of Patty on weekends. That changes abruptly when her sister's health fails and Patty needs more than weekend care.Fillan Reilly has taken a summer job on Cape Cod teaching ballroom dance. A Galway, Ireland native, Fillan uses the change of scenery to try to clear his head and decide his direction after his long-term girlfriend leaves him, unsure whether she'll return. With pressure to enter the family business and push his dancing to the sidelines, he expects an easy relaxed summer to think things over.When fate brings them together, Emma and Fillan must determine whether joining their lifeboats will provide an even keel or throw them further off-balance.(Full novel version. 2018) Ella M. Kaye uses her art and psychology background to create contemporary love stories with mental health issues set around the creative arts. Each of her novels and novellas fall under one of three series: Dancers & Lighthouses, Artists & Cottages, and Songwriters & Cities. Kaye has been writing romantically inclined literary fiction that branches into straight mainstream in both novel and short story form under the name LK Hunsaker for more than two decades. After many moves as a military spouse, she is settled in western Pennsylvania where she enjoys the abundant foliage and recreational lakes along with the hilly vistas.Find her at EllaMKaye.com Contemporary Literary Romances with mental health issues, featuring a variety of dance genres and set on beaches around the US.

Sandra Courey has worked as an exotic dancer for the past seven years after moving from Connecticut to Charleston, South Carolina to escape her family and her ex husband. Stowing away as much of her paycheck as possible, Sandy's plan is to make a new start in a new state at the beginning of the new year.Ross Billings is the main caregiver for his niece, Rose. In between working as a theater manager, he does his best to give the eight-year-old as normal a life as possible around her mentally ill mother and her heart defect. Rose has three major life goals: to play Marie in the Nutcracker, to see her uncle happily settled with a girl worthy of him, and to build a real snowman out of snow. As her heart condition worsens, Ross loses hope that she will get even one of her wishes.When Rose catches Sandy doing a few basic ballet moves out on Folly Beach, she is absolutely sure Sandy's the one who will become her uncle's happily ever after. Ella M. Kaye uses her art and psychology background to create contemporary love stories with mental health issues set around the creative arts. Each of her novels and novellas fall under one of three series: Dancers & Lighthouses, Artists & Cottages, and Songwriters & Cities. Kaye has been writing romantically inclined literary fiction that branches into straight mainstream in both novel and short story form under the name LK Hunsaker for more than two decades. After many moves as a military spouse, she is settled in western Pennsylvania where she enjoys the abundant foliage and recreational lakes along with the hilly vistas.Find her at EllaMKaye.com Contemporary Literary Romances with mental health issues, featuring a variety of dance genres and set on beaches around the US.

Pier Lights, Shadowed Lights, and Pieces of Light: the first three books of the Dancers & Lighthouse series.Pier Lights: Caroline was closing in on becoming a principle dancer when a permanent injury pushed her a different direction. Dio is a scarred farmer with a secret life. When the two collide amid the glow of the lights from the pier, their personal scars push them away, and pull them in, like the ebb and flow of the Atlantic. Folly Beach, South CarolinaShadowed Lights: Delaney welcomes her sister's family into her home after Hurricane Sandy, but is soon overwhelmed at home as well as dealing with social anxiety disorder whenever she's out. Eli has come to help rebuild during a lull in available work back home in Kentland, Indiana. After meeting Delaney and starting to win her trust, he has doubts about moving to a new location as requested. Under shadow of devastation, fear, and forced separation, Delaney and Eli search for their own rescue light. Barnegat, New Jersey.Pieces of Light: Emma is taking care of her ill sister and her autistic niece in between teaching fifth grade. Deciding she needs something for herself, she begins ballroom dance lessons. Fillan has come for the summer from Galway, Ireland to get his head together after his long-time girlfriend ditches him due to his career decisions. When fate brings them together, Emma and Fillan must determine whether joining their lifeboats will provide an even keel or throw them further off-balance. Provincetown, Massachusetts.Sensual/spicy literary romance. Ella M. Kaye uses her art and psychology background to create contemporary love stories with mental health issues set around the creative arts. Each of her novels and novellas fall under one of three series: Dancers & Lighthouses, Artists & Cottages, and Songwriters & Cities. Kaye has been writing romantically inclined literary fiction that branches into straight mainstream in both novel and short story form under the name LK Hunsaker for more than two decades. After many moves as a military spouse, she is settled in western Pennsylvania where she enjoys the abundant foliage and recreational lakes along with the hilly vistas.Find her at EllaMKaye.com Contemporary Literary Romances with mental health issues, featuring a variety of dance genres and set on beaches around the US.