Local author releases followup Mystic Beach fantasy-romance

Local author Aislinn Archer announced “Dream Weaver,” her second book in the Mystic Beach Fantasy Rockstar Romances, has been released in ebook and paperback editions on Amazon.com.

The second half of the series-kickoff duet that began with “Once Upon a Dream,” this book concludes the story of Brighid and her lifelong best friend, crush and now full-fledged rockstar, Hunter, as he and his band arrive in the fictional Delaware resort town of Mystic Beach to record their latest album.

“Brighid and Hunter learned the hard way that the rockstar lifestyle isn’t always conducive to maintaining relationships,” said Archer, who has worked as a professional live sound engineer. “But Brighid gave Hunter a wakeup call about staying true to himself amidst the glamorous world he’s found himself in. The question now is whether he’ll be able to prove to her that he’s found the best friend she remembers inside the rockstar he became.”

But that isn’t the only rockstar complication Hunter is bringing with him to Mystic Beach for his band’s working vacation.

“With Hunter having established himself as a high-profile bachelor, his record label has signed him up to star in a reality dating show. Even though he’s tried to put his rockstar dating life behind him, he’s got good reason to go along with it, since they’ve agreed to feature his favorite charity. And that’s where things get really complicated,” said Archer.

Brighid finds herself dragged in front of the cameras and into the social media morass at the same moment Hunter is finally forced to face his true feelings for his best friend. What results is a comedy of errors, mixed with some magical encounters with a past life and a goddess, and more than one trip to the emergency room, all while Hunter’s band is trying to write new songs and stay incognito.

“At the same time he’s wondering if he shouldn’t have been with Brighid all along, Hunter’s also realizing that having her shift from girl friend to girlfriend could be exactly the thing that ruins their friendship – the thing he’s been afraid of from the moment she first confessed she had feelings for him, at 15,” Archer said.

Taking a cue from Hunter’s charity work in “Dream Weaver,” Archer plans to donate 20 percent of her royalties from the two books to a designated nonprofit, National Alliance on Mental Illness Delaware.

Archer, an award-winning journalist, has been an area resident for nearly 25 years, and local residents and visitors will find some familiar locations referenced in both books.

For more, go to AislinnArcher.com or MysticBeachRocks.com.