Redeeming Christmas
Carol James
PBGroup Christmas Holiday Extravaganza
December 1, 2020, Romantic Novella, 111 pp
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About the Book
Novelist Olivia St. Madeleine is intrigued by a handsome and
mysterious stranger she sees when she's Christmas shopping. Who exactly is he,
and what is his story?
Gabriel Winter definitely has a story. One he's been running from for years.
He's renovating a house next door to a friendly and persuasive grandmother, who
is, unbeknownst to him, Olivia's Nana. Through Nana's insistence, Liv helps
Gabe wallpaper and paint, and in return Gabe fulfills one of Liv's secret
childhood dreams.
But past hurts and secrets threaten to drive them apart rather than draw them
together. Will they find the courage to share their secrets with each other and
with God, and allow Him to redeem Christmas?
I adore a little bit of reality check in my romantic
fiction. And not mincing situational reality with saccharine. We’re all broken—all
of us—and we know it. How we face it shows our true character. This author
knows how to pack a lovely punch in a short story. Like your good reads in
little bites around the holidays? Redeeming Christmas is a perfect fit.
Streams in the Wasteland, Redemptive Romance by Carol James:
Carol is an author of inspirational fiction. She lives in Lilburn, Georgia, a
small town outside of Atlanta, with her husband, Jim, and a perky Jack Russell
"Terrorist," Zoe.
Inspirational Romance from Prism Lux, November 13, 2020
172 pp
About the Book:
In the years of World War I and the flu epidemic that followed, American
society and its people underwent profound changes. Carrie and her adopted
family are not spared these changes and tragedies, yet what can they do but
continue on the best way they can? As Carrie comes of age, she is faced with a
future very different than the one she hoped for. She gave her heart, only to
have it returned back to her and now she must search herself to find a new
direction or give in to the temptation to simply give up and let circumstances
dictate her life.
Judd
has spent his young adult years coping with the aftermath of war injuries and
profound family losses. With no time to grieve or recover, he is thrust into
the role of family head and pours himself into steering his brothers and Carrie
to adulthood while also seeing to the needs of the family farm. Like Carrie,
his losses have caused him to grow cold towards God, leaning only on himself to
bear the weight of his responsibilities. The pressure has forged a resolute
hardness in him and an unwillingness to be close to anyone. The life journey of
both is in need of new direction, if they will choose to take a chance and step
toward it.
Enjoy this Excerpt:
Her mind wandered back to days spent with Mama, watching her cook, and sharing the small triumphs while she learned. Memories warmed her and loosened her tongue. “I wish she could know how good I am at it now. With her gift for pies and cake, and mine for bread, maybe we could’ve run a bakery together. That would’ve been wonderful.”
Lucas
rumbled out an indeterminate sound. “Two women running a bakery? Never heard of
that.”
Carrie’s
wistful, nostalgic mood shattered. How backward. Was Jesse the only man in this
family with any foresight?
Quenching
a sharp retort, she kept her voice airy. “It’s the twentieth century, in case
you forgot. Women can do pretty much anything these days. Vote, get a job. Why,
I read a story the other day about women policemen in California.”
Lucas sputtered out a laugh. “You just called them policemen. Wouldn’t they be policewomen?”
She scowled at his smirking expression. “Ha-ha. You know what I mean.”
About Nancy: Nancy Shew Bolton is a wife, mother of five grown sons, and grandmother to a boy and girl. Ever since she learned to write, she would jot down her thoughts and impressions in little snippets of inspiration in the form of poetry, song lyrics, or short essays.
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Books webpage: https://nancyboltonbooks.com/
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Clare is a British author. She
lives in a small town just outside Reading, England with her husband, whom she
married in 1992, their three children, and unfriendly mini-panther, aka Tilly
the black cat. They have recently been joined by Hedwig and Sirius the guinea
pigs. Clare is half English and half Welsh, which makes watching rugby
interesting at times as it doesn’t matter who wins. Writing from an early
childhood and encouraged by her teachers, she graduated from rewriting fairy
stories through fan fiction to using her own original characters and enjoys
writing an eclectic mix of romance, crime fiction and children's stories. When
she's not writing, she can be found reading, crocheting or doing the many piles
of laundry the occupants of her house manage to make.
