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    Our Favorite Songs: Moonlighters, #2
    Wherever is Your Heart: Moonlighters, #3
    Sing Anyway: Moonlighters, #1
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    Moonlighters Series

    By Anita Kelly

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    About this series

    Welcome to the Moonlight Café, where the drinks are cheap, the karaoke is nostalgic, and the queer community is free.

     

    This edition includes the original three Moonlighters novellas—Sing Anyway, Our Favorite Songs, and Wherever Is Your Heart—along with a bonus Moonie's universe short story, I Didn't Sign Up for This, and an essay about the Portland, Oregon dive bars that inspired the series.

     

    Thank you for singing along.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnita Kelly
    Release dateJun 1, 2021
    Our Favorite Songs: Moonlighters, #2
    Wherever is Your Heart: Moonlighters, #3
    Sing Anyway: Moonlighters, #1

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      Sing Anyway: Moonlighters, #1
      Sing Anyway: Moonlighters, #1

      Sing Anyway: Moonlighters, #1

      Anita Kelly
      4/5 - 26 ratings
      4/5 - 26 ratings

      After a lifetime of failed relationships, nonbinary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a new (non)romantic strategy: Thirst Only. It's the actual drinking where things get too complicated, where Sam inevitably gets hurt.    Sam is good at being thirsty, though, especially when it's karaoke night at The Moonlight Cafe, otherwise known as Moonie's to its largely queer regulars. Moonie's is fun. Comfortable. Safe. Except for tonight, when one by one, all of Sam's friends abandon them. Disappointed, they prepare to leave—until their #1 karaoke crush catches their eye...   For Lily Fischer, karaoke at Moonie's is the only time she can step outside of her quiet shell. When there's a mic in her hand, she's no longer merely a receptionist harboring big dreams. At Moonie's, Lily can pretend to be someone else: someone bold, who takes what she wants. And tonight, what Lily wants is the way Sam looks at her across the room as she sings her signature opening song, like they see her exactly as she wants to be seen. Like Moonie's Lily is real.    As the night progresses, both Sam's and Lily's personal fears are tested, and the real world outside of Moonie's looms. But maybe sometimes, the real world should be a little more like karaoke. It's not always about knowing all the right words or having the perfect voice. Maybe all Sam and Lily need is a little courage to pick up the mic, and sing anyway.  

      After a lifetime of failed relationships, nonbinary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a new (non)romantic strategy: Thirst Only. It's the actual drinking where things get too complicated, where Sam inevitably gets hurt.    Sam is good at being thirsty, though, especially when it's karaoke night at The Moonlight Cafe, otherwise known as Moonie's to its largely queer regulars. Moonie's is fun. Comfortable. Safe. Except for tonight, when one by one, all of Sam's friends abandon them. Disappointed, they prepare to leave—until their #1 karaoke crush catches their eye...   For Lily Fischer, karaoke at Moonie's is the only time she can step outside of her quiet shell. When there's a mic in her hand, she's no longer merely a receptionist harboring big dreams. At Moonie's, Lily can pretend to be someone else: someone bold, who takes what she wants. And tonight, what Lily wants is the way Sam looks at her across the room as she sings her signature opening song, like they see her exactly as she wants to be seen. Like Moonie's Lily is real.    As the night progresses, both Sam's and Lily's personal fears are tested, and the real world outside of Moonie's looms. But maybe sometimes, the real world should be a little more like karaoke. It's not always about knowing all the right words or having the perfect voice. Maybe all Sam and Lily need is a little courage to pick up the mic, and sing anyway.  

    • 2

      Our Favorite Songs: Moonlighters, #2
      Our Favorite Songs: Moonlighters, #2

      Our Favorite Songs: Moonlighters, #2

      Anita Kelly
      4/5 - 25 ratings
      4/5 - 25 ratings

      Restless and disillusioned with his life, Aiden McCarstle is ready for a night out at The Moonlight Café with his best friend Penelope: one night to not think about how much he hates grad school, to watch queer people make fools of themselves singing karaoke. A simple, reliable escape.   But when it's not Penelope who walks through the door at Moonie's, but the high school nemesis Aiden hasn't seen in five years—well, things get a little more complicated.   For Kai Andrews, moving back home after his mother's death has been harder and lonelier than he anticipated. And running into McCarstle again hadn't been in his plans, either. But he deserves a night out, away from responsibilities and grief. Sure, it appears McCarstle still hates his guts, for reasons Kai has never quite understood. But maybe, with a decent dose of pop music and Moonie's magic, Kai can finally, finally make Aiden smile. Just this once. Just for tonight.   As a surprising, intimate night at Moonie's brings Aiden and Kai closer together, a winter storm moves in. And what was meant to be a simple night out turns into over 24 hours of being snowed in together. Through confessions, memories, and favorite poems, Aiden and Kai have to figure out if this unexpected second chance at connection was merely a temporary interlude—or if they can each come out better on the other side of the storm.

      Restless and disillusioned with his life, Aiden McCarstle is ready for a night out at The Moonlight Café with his best friend Penelope: one night to not think about how much he hates grad school, to watch queer people make fools of themselves singing karaoke. A simple, reliable escape.   But when it's not Penelope who walks through the door at Moonie's, but the high school nemesis Aiden hasn't seen in five years—well, things get a little more complicated.   For Kai Andrews, moving back home after his mother's death has been harder and lonelier than he anticipated. And running into McCarstle again hadn't been in his plans, either. But he deserves a night out, away from responsibilities and grief. Sure, it appears McCarstle still hates his guts, for reasons Kai has never quite understood. But maybe, with a decent dose of pop music and Moonie's magic, Kai can finally, finally make Aiden smile. Just this once. Just for tonight.   As a surprising, intimate night at Moonie's brings Aiden and Kai closer together, a winter storm moves in. And what was meant to be a simple night out turns into over 24 hours of being snowed in together. Through confessions, memories, and favorite poems, Aiden and Kai have to figure out if this unexpected second chance at connection was merely a temporary interlude—or if they can each come out better on the other side of the storm.

    • 3

      Wherever is Your Heart: Moonlighters, #3
      Wherever is Your Heart: Moonlighters, #3

      Wherever is Your Heart: Moonlighters, #3

      Anita Kelly
      4/5 - 11 ratings
      4/5 - 11 ratings

      How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie's for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender?   Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn't? But as another Pride weekend approaches, June's fiftieth birthday and the eventual end of her long-haul trucking days loom in her mind, nestled against the memories of Moonie's nights gone by where it felt like June and Mal came close—close to something happening, something real. Until June would inevitably chicken out, and retreat once again to life on the road.   It's time for June to finally figure out her next act. And if she's not brave enough to ask Mal Edwards to be part of it, she doesn't deserve her, anyway. After all. If you can't tell a butch you love her during Pride, when the hell can you?

      How long, exactly, had June been coming to Moonie's for the sole purpose of pining after the bartender?   Long enough to know, probably, that there was no good reason for Mal Edwards, a bastion of stability and good sense, to see any kind of future with June anyway. Was it even fair to express feelings to a woman like that when June was barely around, on the road more than she wasn't? But as another Pride weekend approaches, June's fiftieth birthday and the eventual end of her long-haul trucking days loom in her mind, nestled against the memories of Moonie's nights gone by where it felt like June and Mal came close—close to something happening, something real. Until June would inevitably chicken out, and retreat once again to life on the road.   It's time for June to finally figure out her next act. And if she's not brave enough to ask Mal Edwards to be part of it, she doesn't deserve her, anyway. After all. If you can't tell a butch you love her during Pride, when the hell can you?

    • 3

      I Didn't Sign Up for This: A Moonlighters Short: Moonlighters, #3.5
      I Didn't Sign Up for This: A Moonlighters Short: Moonlighters, #3.5

      I Didn't Sign Up for This: A Moonlighters Short: Moonlighters, #3.5

      Anita Kelly
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      Sometimes, your girlfriend dumps you in Switzerland.   If you're lucky, it'll be right before Christmas.   To be specific, it just might be the day before you were set to go skiing in the Swiss Alps. As a Christmas present from said girlfriend.   And maybe Nicole didn't expect me to still go skiing in the Swiss Alps without her, but you know what? You only live once. I will never in my life be able to afford a day like this again.   And sure, it's possible I've never touched a pair of skis before, but I'm an adaptable person.   I'll figure it out.

      Sometimes, your girlfriend dumps you in Switzerland.   If you're lucky, it'll be right before Christmas.   To be specific, it just might be the day before you were set to go skiing in the Swiss Alps. As a Christmas present from said girlfriend.   And maybe Nicole didn't expect me to still go skiing in the Swiss Alps without her, but you know what? You only live once. I will never in my life be able to afford a day like this again.   And sure, it's possible I've never touched a pair of skis before, but I'm an adaptable person.   I'll figure it out.

    Author

    Anita Kelly

    Originally from a small town in the Poconos, Anita Kelly now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her wife, son, cat, and three-legged dog. A librarian by day, she drinks too much tea and reads all the romance novels she can find by night. She hopes you get to pet a dog today.

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