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Author: L.S. Childers | Website
As long as she could remember, L.S. (LaShell Stratton) Childers has wanted to be a writer. In college, she studied journalism and started out as a crime reporter for a small local newspaper. Now she is an editor at a trade journal in Virginia.
Her fiction writing career began when she became one of four finalists in the BET Books First-Time Writers Contest when she was 19 years old. The prize was having her first short-story romance published in the book, All That and Then Some! Since then her work has appeared in another short story anthology and online. Her first novel, The Right Maneuver, debuted in April 2011. Her second, A Love Built to Last, was released in November 2011.
She is married and lives in Maryland with her husband and her tabbie cat, Barty. She loves to paint, read, and watch movies.
Published Works & Book Reviews
A Love Built to Last
Whatever Melody Cannon wants, Melody Cannon gets -- or least that has been the case for the past eight years. The famous Hollywood stylist is used to giving orders, but when Melody takes an early retirement from Tinseltown and returns home to Washington, D.C., to start a new life, she encounters the irresistible force known as Clayton Reed, a local architect whom she hires to design her new abode.
Clayton can think of many words to describe Melody, his childhood nemesis who is now his new client. Unfortunately, none of those words are good. He's a patient man, but even he can't control his temper around her. Despite his dislike for the bossy, hot-tempered vixen, Clayton still feels drawn under her spell. As he designs her new home, he gradually breaks down the defensive walls she has built around her with a passion and love she has never known.
Reviewer: Beth Hardy
Review: Dec 15, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance, Multicultural / Minority
Clayton and Melody have known each other since childhood. It has been a love/hate relationship. Melody seems to hate him but secretly has always loved him. When she dashes back into town after years of being away, Clayton thinks she is the same little girl who used to serve him up black eyes. As beautiful as she has turned out to be he doesn't trust her and wants nothing to do with her. He knows that hiding b