After a public breakup and a soul-crushing creative block, bestselling romance author Emily Greene trades crushing deadlines and parental disapproval for an RV and the open roads of the American Southwest, desperate for solitude. She doesn’t expect to find inspiration in the Mojave Desert, where a gruff stranger with calloused fingers and a haunting melody turns her world upside down.
Miles Walker, a reclusive musician surviving on the echoes of one long-ago hit, has no patience for formulaic fiction or flirtation. But when Miles challenges Emily to write something deeply honest, she begins to excavate more than just a new story—she begins to unearth herself.
As their paths collide in desert towns and moonlit crossroads, Emily and Miles ignite a connection neither saw coming. But with old wounds, creative doubts, and the looming pressure to return to lives that no longer fit, they face a choice: chase the comfort of the familiar or risk everything for a live very different from everything they’ve known.
Can two burned-out artists find the courage to rewrite their endings—or are they destined to wander alone?
Moonlight Serenade is a heart-stirring romance about second chances, creative rebirth, and the kind of love that only finds you when you’ve finally found yourself. Fall in love with The Encore Romance series—where every heart gets one more chance to sing.
MM Travis has lived and worked in Anchorage and Seward, Alaska. She loves exploring the state and has done so on foot, and via vehicles, campers, kayak, seiner, ferry, and several sized aircraft, from Galbraith Lake above the arctic circle to the southeast panhandle, and from Kodiak to McCarthy and Tok.
A lover of all things salmon, she advocates for their protection and enjoys harvesting them. She’s caught salmon by hook, dipnet, fishwheel, seine net (and once by hand) from the Copper River, Gulkana, Kenai River, Prince William Sound, and the Outer District of the North Gulf Coast of Alaska.
She is the author of over twenty books, from non-fiction to romance, and has collaborated with Max Travis on a commercial fishing family saga based in Alaska. She loves writing contemporary romance with happy endings, often with second chance, small town, and ‘fish out of water’ tropes.