Dee S. Knight

About Dee

The Good Man Series

The books of the Good Man series came about through a collaboration between Vanessa Hart and me, years ago. We started with twins, Daniel and Jonah Goodman. I wrote Daniel’s story (what became Only a Good Man Will Do) and she wrote the story for Jonah, an extraordinary mechanic who did work for some of the best drivers on the NASCAR circuit. Well, other work intervened and we eventually dropped the idea of the duo book. With Nessie’s permission, I recently picked up Daniel’s and Jonah's stories and made a few changes. First, Daniel and Jonah are now triplets, not twins. Their third brother, Mark, is a bona fide genius, though his street smarts don’t quite measure up to his book smarts—especially when it comes to women. Focused mechanic Jonah has become carefree and wild as the wind, as he tends to go from job to job, lending his magical touch to world-class drivers but not settling in with any team permanently.

In One Woman Only, Jonah is headed home to Lucky Strike, North Carolina to attend his parents' wedding. Yes, after nearly 40 years of "living in sin," his parents have decided to tie the knot. There will be lots going on--it's Thanksgiving weekend, his brother Daniel, who eloped the previous week will be there with his new bride and her son as well as a passel of people he brought down from New Hampshire, his parents' nuptuals are being broadcast on national TV, and, oh yeah, his former girlfriend, Kelly Shepherd, will also be in town and at the wedding. He hasn't seen her since senior year of high school, when he humiliated himself and her in the backseat of his car the night of homecoming. Will the old chemistry mix things up, or will Kelly shut Jonah down? Half of him can't wait to find out and the other half wants to skip everything and stay home in South Carolina! Poor Jonah!

And poor Kelly. At least Jonah is coming home to a house where love is center place. In Kelly's home, her mother gives her air kisses and her father ignores her--unless there's something he wants. Kelly discovers her first night home that her father has something in mind for his daughter. When she was younger, he told her that girls had no place in the corporate world. Her brother was heir apparent to the family embroidery business. Suddenly, though, her father wants to retire and her brother has run off to find himself. Now her father wants Kelly to give up everthing to come home and run the business. What is she to do? Leave her job and her life behind to accommodate her parents? She did that once to disastrous results. There's only one person she trusts enough to give her straight advice. Too bad she swore off Jonah Goodman eighteen years before.

In all three books about the Goodman brothers, I hope you will agree with me that the key to winning a woman’s heart is in being a truly good man.

Only a Good Man Will Do
One Woman Only
With Only the Heart (Marks' story, coming 2020)

Enjoy!

Dee

Prior to writing her first fiction only a few years ago, Dee S. Knight lived a varied lifestyle. After college she married her high school sweetheart and they became house parents at a home for wards of the court. Thus, she went from newlywed to "mother" of a dozen teenage boys, in a month. Two years of living in one city proved to be enough, and she and her husband spent the next eight years as long-distance truckers. Swiftly following their trucking years, she became a computer consultant, high school and adult ed teacher, technical writer and novelist. More than thirty years later, she's still married to her own hero and finds life infinitely interesting. She currently resides in Idaho with Jack still by her side. Life is quite a trip!