The Thrill of It All

With a sweet, funny voice and stories that readers love, USA Today bestselling author Christie Ridgway is poised for great things. Let’s grow Christie the way we’ve grown Rachel Gibson!

Felicity Charm went from dirt-poor desert rat to the “America’s Shopping Sweetheart” when she single-handedly broke out television’s hottest new shopping channel, GetTV, to a whole new audience of young, hip consumers. But try as she might to reinvent her background, the truth is bound to come calling-in the form of crazy Aunt Vi, who needs Felicity’s reliability to help sort out the latest family crisis. So she puts her ‘perfect’ boyfriend and ‘perfect’ life on hold, and strikes out in her Miata to Half Palm, CA, hoping to make fast work of her nutsoid relatives and get back to LA as quickly as possible.

But before she manages that, she’ll meet Luke Nilsson, an extreme rock climbing star who’s just as caught up in the antics of the Charm family as Felicity is. He’s wrong for Felicity in every single way imaginable, but get the two of the together and things seem so right. Perhaps Aunt Vi isn’t so nutsoid after all . . .

Christie Ridgway has never lived east of the Pacific Ocean, north of San Francisco, or south of San Diego. To put it simply, she's a California native who loves to travel but is happy to make the Golden State her home. She began her writing career in fifth grade when she penned a volume of love stories featuring herself and a teen idol who will probably be thrilled to remain nameless. Later, though, after marrying her college sweetheart, Christie again took up writing romances, this time with imaginary heroes and heroines. In a house full of males—one terrific husband, two school-age sons, a yellow dog, and tankfuls of fish, reptiles, and amphibians—Christie makes her own place (and peace) writing the kinds of stories she loves best.