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Carolyn McBride

Biography

Carolyn McBride

Carolyn McBride grew up exploring the Potomac River on her dad's Boston Whaler. Her Potomac Shores series is immersed in the places she lives and loves, from South Florida's Intracoastal Waterway to Virginia’s Occoquan River. Like Carolyn, her characters are grandmothers, mothers, wives, daughters, friends, pet lovers and boat captains. Carolyn is a former editor and columnist for National Geographic Traveler and professional copywriter. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she is completing an MFA in fiction writing.

Books by Carolyn McBride

Santa Overboard: A Potomac Shores Holiday
by Carolyn McBride - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Romance

Starting over in the little town of Occoquan, Katie Young finds solace in small-town life with best friends at their thriving gallery and a deepening romance with the town’s resident scientist. Her college-age daughter bakes up holiday memories in their river house. And Katie can’t wait to captain the boat parade and deliver Santa to the town dock on her new ferryboat. But when the holiday-averse Deke flies south for the season and Santa goes swimming, Katie wonders if she needs a survival suit --- or just a really strong cocktail --- to weather midlife mayhem. Can the single mom save the holiday festival and salvage her belief in love? With the help of the Beach Bonfire Babes, a dash of holiday magic and a lot of heart, Katie just might navigate life’s choppy seas to kick off the town’s festival and get her perfect Christmas gift: a second chance at a forever love.