Ludima Burton makes her publishing debut June 2000 with ONLY FOR A YEAR, an Avalon Romance.
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Starr Evans accidentally pours the whole bottle of a love potion on Eric
Hammond's head, yet he continually insists he has not fallen in love with
her.
Wishing for light relief from his stressful cancer research project, he persuades Starr to test the remaining five bottles of the potion by throwing only a pinch from each bottle on an unlikely combination of couples. At first, it appears the potion is not working. Then, love enters the lives of all the participants. Eric is no exception as he confesses his love for Starr. All concerned insist that love is magical enough on its own. |
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Teacher Brenda Harrison is nervous about her summer job writing a book
for wealthy racecar driver, Alexander Stone. Once she meets him she falls
hopelessly in love but hides it while completing the book for Alexander's
parents' anniversary.
As a sports car designer, racecar driver and heir to an impressive collection of rare and valuable antique cars, Alexander wants this book to be absolutely perfect. He feels she is unqualified but when she encourages him to follow his dream of designing cars and proves to be a very capable and savvy writer, he begins to change his mind. Once he realizes he loves her, he wants her to give up her job as a teacher in a rough, inner-city school and become his full-time wife. She is devastated. It looks as though their worlds are falling apart. However, their love for each other helps them to make the necessary compromises and realize that both their dreams have come true. |
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Brent Chambers finds himself in a quandary. In order to meet the terms
of his uncle's will, he has to marry for love and stay married for a year.
Unfortunately, his fiancee elopes with another man - forcing him to settle
for a marriage of convenience. But with whom?
Sarah Gordon, his employee, comes into his office asking for a raise. Instead, he offers her a pretend marriage for a year with him. Because her graduate classes are so expensive, she takes his offer, convincing herself that it is only for the money and not because she is attracted to her handsome boss. But soon their time together becomes more special and she must hide her feelings - he doesn't want a real marriage. Will their play acting love become the real thing before the end of the year and all bets are off? |
Ludima Gus Burton was born in Farrell, PA, and graduated from Farrell High School in 1938. She attended Hunter College in New York City, and Albany State Teacher's College (now SUNY) and received a BA in 1945. She taught in Averill Park and Northville until her retirement in 1978.
Ludima and her husband, Guy, had three glorious retirement years before he died of a heart attack in 1981. She now lives with her daughter, Daphne, son-in-law, Peter, and a grandson, Matthew. Her other daughter, Jennifer, lives six miles away.
Resurrecting a childhood dream, Ludima wrote her first novel in longhand, on lined paper, in 1991, at the age of 71. Over the next nine years, she joined the Saratoga Chapter of RWA, and attended conferences and workshops. Since then, Ludima has written five more novels and had four short stories published.
At the age of 80, her childhood dream was realized with the publication of her first book ONLY FOR A YEAR, followed by the sale of her second book to Avalon Romance, THE TYCOON AND THE SCHOOL TEACHER. Ludima believes that one is never to old to make a dream come true.
Ludima welcomes reader feedback at her email address.
