Cover Art by Mary Z. Wolf
©2005

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ISBN 978-0-7599-4365-0
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It's the 1963 holiday season in New York, and talented actress Danica Britt is newly engaged to Tyler Newton, star of their television sitcom. History professor-novelist Zane McCaul visits the studio and encounters Dannie, who is being considered for the starring role in the TV production of his best-seller. Although Zane is fourteen years her senior and burdened by a polio-limp, his subtle charisma and ironic expression reveal an inner star quality that soon draws Dannie's professional and personal attention. Widowed, lonely and reserved, Zane is enthralled by the fey, nervy young beauty whose incandescence seems to promise future stardom.

Complicated by Dannie's ambition and her engagement to the enigmatic Tyle, a complex, edgy relationship develops between the professor and the actress, based on collaboration, Dannie's desire for a mentor, and Zane's desire for her.

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Reviews:

"A Dazzling Spring is the third in the Cranky Otter series. 

A Dazzling Spring by C.J. Winters is a beautiful love story. Winters is a talented author able to use humor, sarcasm, and romance to bring her characters to life. Danica and Zane were made for each other. The plot is interesting and holds the reader’s attention. Watch for the name C.J. Winters; you will be hearing it again."
~ 4 Stars, Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for ReviewYourBook.com, 3/08

"I truly enjoyed A Dazzling Spring. The characters are well shaped and fresh and the plot kept me interested enough to read the entire book in one afternoon. I only wish Ms. Winters would have shared more with her readers the feel of 1960’s New York, but A Dazzling Spring is certainly a charming, worthwhile read."
Rating: 
4 Flames--Rare Find.
~ Reviewed by Sandee McCann for Word Museum

"C.J. Winters has written a really good trilogy (soon to be four)... I have enjoyed the strength of character she has developed in the female characters, yet at the same time keeping the men quite masculine. The characters don't fit any particular mold. The men don't have to be tall, dark and handsome to get the girl and yet the men are just right. The women don't have to be svelte, blond and drop dead gorgeous and yet they are everyday women we can relate to.
"C.J. Winters did a terrific job of continuing the 'genealogy' and I am looking forward to the 'autumn' edition!"
4.25 rating
~ Reviewed by Lori Graham for Once Upon A Romance