Renee Johnson's Other Published Work


It's so great to have you on The Wylder West blog this week! Thank you for joining us! 

We've heard a bit about your Wylder story and I think it's fair to say you've got most of us completely intrigued! This one is definitely going on my must-read list. 

Do you have any other published work? 

The most recent published work is the May 2021 release of Reminiscing OverRainbow Gelato, a series addition to One Scoop or Two.

Blurb:

On the heels of professional failure, flavor chemist Sabrina Bianco travels to Martha's Vineyard to reopen her parents' ice cream parlor, hire a manager, and return to North Carolina before a co-worker snags her promotion. Sabrina didn’t plan to stay long on Martha’s Vineyard, but the opportunity to rekindle her relationship with Tommy O’Brien is almost as important as revitalizing her parents’ ice cream parlor.

Excerpt:

One glance propelled me from my self-indulgence as I stared into my manifested youth. A summer’s work started the collection, and several more added to its contents, winnowing away some items, replacing them with others. I touched the shadowbox—our shadowbox, mine and Tommy’s—with reverence. Nobody else would treasure such a thing.

I was surprised it was still here, instead of tossed away like some junk in a storage unit or a long-forgotten box in a basement. Nothing inside was valuable, except for the precious, irreplaceable memories. I could barely believe the compartments retained most of their original contents—glossy misshapen blue and green glass, smoothed by all the rolling in the waves and the sand, a tiger’s eye marble, and a dried baby starfish.

Lifting a piece of the most transparent, sky-colored sea glass, I held it to the light. Thinking of how its color resembled Tommy’s eyes, I wished whatever island magic manifested Mrs. Lockwood would turn the trinket in my palm into the one person I both longed and feared seeing more than anyone else. Tommy O’Brien, where are you?


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