Kera Lea Shelton writes romance. She grew up along the Cumberland River dancing in the clover and

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playing with purple spikeweed. Her first kiss might have been risky, but it was one she’ll never forget.

Influenced by the romance of the ’70’s, Kera scratched out her first song on the back of a napkin at Bobby Borcher’s Palace after slow dancing with the bouncer to Kenny Rogers “Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer”. She wasn’t supposed to be a song writer, but that first song was published and recorded by a young guy in the back of Fireside Studios that summer.

Saturday Night Fever wasn’t something she knew anything about for several more years, but her first kiss taught her that romance doesn’t come easy, and when it’s gone… it never returns.

At the tender age of fourteen she ran from the hotel room down to the parking garage to get the license plate off her parent’s car for the desk clerk. Returning to the elevator, a rather nice looking young man in a gray leisure suit with a flower print shirt and soft blonde hair swooping over his forehead asked her to hold the door. He wasn’t carrying any luggage, but she held the door. Once inside the elevator he stood next to her for a moment, then leaned down and kissed her tenderly. When the door opened, she rushed down the hall to her room, where her best friend waited.

A couple years later, she recognized the man who had kissed her in the elevator. But although she’s never forgotten that kiss, there was never another chance for a kiss from him.

Near the River

Life moved on and eventually she dated the son of a celebrity, dined with the King of Country Ballads, and danced the night away with a California Cowboy. In her life, romance was a distant memory, if not an ellusive dream. Moonlit nights on the beaches of Pine Island Lake, strolls along the waterfront in Oklahoma City, and tender sweet kisses under lightening splintered skies filled up pages and pages of her journal, until she met the man of her dreams.

Life deals some hard blows and Kera knows what it is to love and lose. She knows how to be in love, and enjoys sharing that knowledge with others in her books. Her search for love, a second time, has yet to be fulfilled. Kera remains hopeful and continues her search for Mr. Right. Perhaps that would be you?