Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot Summer Nights | 2003 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
| 2 | Forgotten Vows | 2012 | Lindsay McKenna | Buy |
Short story collections give romance authors a chance to experiment with characters and settings outside the space a full novel demands, and Lindsay McKenna has used that format occasionally throughout her career. Hot Summer Nights, published in 2003, and Forgotten Vows, published in 2012, represent two points in her career when she gathered shorter work into collected volumes.
The titles suggest the range: Hot Summer Nights leans toward the kind of sensory, location-driven romance McKenna does well in her series fiction, while Forgotten Vows has the emotionally loaded premise – a couple separated or estranged, with a history to work through – that turns up throughout her writing.
For readers who want to sample McKenna’s work without committing to a multi-book series, collections like these offer a range of her storytelling in a compact form. They also hold interest for longtime fans who want to read work that sits slightly outside her main series continuities.