This is something new for me. I’m hosting 6 authors today! First, Carol Malone shares a recipe from the Summer Hearts compilation. This sounds like a very fun collection of clean sweet novellas. So here’s the recipe and the scoop on these six great romances! (And learn how you might win one!)

Recipe from Summer Holiday,

Carol Malone’s sweet summer novella in the Summer Hearts compilation.

In Summer Holiday, Lizzy’s grandma cooked pork sandwiches for the farmers who volunteered to help cut the hay for the season. She had to feed a large army of hungry men. This recipe I found on http://www.everydaydutchoven.com/…/fall-apart-tender… is much the same as her recipe.

I cooked a 3 lb. roast in my 12 inch dutch oven with 10 coals in a ring around the bottom and 16-18 in a ring around the outside of the lid with 4-6 spaced evenly in the middle. I changed the coals three times, cooking the roast for a total of 3 1/2 hours. It is extremely tender, you can slice it or pull it apart with a couple of forks. The best part is the wonderful sauce that forms in the bottom of your dutch oven, light and sweetened with apple and brown sugar, add some salt to it if you like but be sure to drown the juicy meat in the delicious drippings.

Fall Apart Tender Slow Roasted Pork

1 pork butt roast (3-4 lbs.)

1/4 to 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup apple juice

1/2 tsp salt

Lightly oil or spray Dutch oven.

Place pork in large bowl.

Sprinkle the roast on all sides with Worcestershire sauce.

Press brown sugar into pork, coating all sides evenly.

Carefully place in prepared dutch oven.

Pour apple juice around pork roast, being sure not to drizzle it on crusted meat.

Roast at 300 degrees for 3-3 1/2 hours, replenishing coals hourly.

Pull the meat apart.

Stir the salt into the juices remaining in Dutch oven.

Serve immediately on hot, homemade bread with mustard or the drippings from the pork roast.

If you’d like more recipes like this, the source of this one is from EVERYDAY DUTCH OVEN blog.

I am going to try this recipe! Sounds great but I might try it in my crockpot in the summer. In northern WI we don’t really need air-conditioning but I don’t bake much in order to keep our house cool. And here’s the scoop about this great Summer Read! I’m going to give away one EBOOK of this compilation to one commenter, so look for the QUESTION below. Leave a comment to be entered into the drawing for this EBOOK.

To purchase, click here. Summer Hearts: A Compilation of Six Clean Romances

BLURB:

Every Summer Has a Love Story…Six Summer Tales of Sweet Romance that bring you the very best in Historical, Contemporary and Fantasy Romance.

Sarah Daley, Carol Malone, Kathy Bosman, Debby Lee, Robyn Echols, and Lisa Watson

weave stories of long days, sultry nights, sun-kissed beaches and sweet romance

Dreaming in California:
In the summer of 1967, Hollywood actress, Lucinda Baker, appears to have it all– fame, money, and an all too doting fiancé. Dark traits begin to emerge from the man she’s pledged to marry, and he threatens her. Lucinda must now lean on her best friend, celebrity photographer, George Creston to escape the clutches of the dangerous relationship. Together they are forced to summon courage, and trust each other in desperate circumstances. Will they find love in the process or lose everything they hold dear, including their lives.

A Summer of Stars:
McKinley Graham has escaped to her summer getaway to regain her perspective and her health. Zane Davidson has taken refuge in the lovely seaside community, welcoming the healing balm of the salty sea air and his childhood home to mend his wounds. They aren’t looking for love, but their attraction is too explosive to ignore. Against the backdrop of starry nights and sultry kisses, they come to realize that even love may not be enough to save them from the angry storm of his past that threatens to destroy their dreams!

Drowning Sandy:
The water is calling…
and Sandy can no longer resist the urge to unleash her mermaid form. But a simple swim in Lake Ontario ends when she discovers the truth of her own banishment. When long time crush, Alardo, seems to shift in a direction she never dreamed possible, Sandy must make a choice — mermaid or human? Once she chooses, she can never go back.

Summer Holiday:
In the summer of 1905, Lizzy Gordon’s father dismisses her desires to be a doctor, demanding she become a teacher—a profession which does not allow women to marry.
Teacher Brent Pierce is dedicated to expanding young minds, but circumstances are forcing him to take over the family farm.
Before the summer is over Lizzy and Brent will be forced to make hard decisions. Can they find the courage to each stand up for themselves and still be together?

Shark Boss:
When Tara takes up a job at the local aquarium, her colleagues warn her about their harsh boss, Mr. Carter Jones. She soon discovers how impatient he can be, but she also can’t deny her fascination and attraction to him. Carter can’t stop watching Tara as she works but holds back from her because of his secrets. If she knew what he was, she would never want him. Could the reason for Carter’s moods be related to something more troubling than what’s on the surface? Tara soon discovers Carter’s secret, and it only bonds them closer. But the curse starts to take over Carter’s life, and he won’t give his heart to a beautiful woman when he can only cause her pain.

The Best Place to Meet a Man:
Jeff goes to the beach to run and clear his head. Meredith goes to the beach intent on burying her nose in her book. In this contemporary romantic comedy, these two collide when Meredith’s two young nephews come up with other plans.

Want to know more about these six authors? For more online:

Connect with Carol on Social Media

Website:  http://carolmalone.net/

Connect with Debby on Social Media

http://www.booksbydebbylee.com/

Connect with Lisa on Social Media:

www.lisawatson.com

Connect with Sarah on Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/S.E.DaleyAuthor

Connect with Kathy on Social Media:

http://www.kathybosman.com/

Connect with Robyn on Social Media:

http://www.robynechols.com/

Now for the QUESTION: Do you like to read books with summer settings in the summer? Or does the season of the book matter?–Lyn