Clare Revell
PBGBooks Passport to Romance novella, December 1, 2020, 95 pp.
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Needing a change of pace, elementary school teacher Kelly Seda accepts the school exchange position and flies from Ottawa to London. Exchanging jobs and houses for a year, he and six-year-old daughter Wendy have a less than a day to adjust before starting work.
Single mum Staci Kirk has carved out a life for herself and her young son
Tommy. Fiercely independent and self-reliant, she's found a good place where
she can settle in but she's all too aware that happily ever after applies only
to other people—or to the fictional characters in the romance books she writes.
The arrival of Tommy's new teacher, also her next door neighbor, threatens to
upset Staci's carefully balanced apple cart but she knows it's only a matter of
time before Kelly packs his bags and flies back to Canada. No sense in starting
anything she can't finish.
However, life is never as simple as it is in her novels, and when the worst
happens, there is only one person she can rely on to help.
My Review
Revell’s newest addition to her impressive catalog of inspirational fiction is a lovely story of two single parents meeting in a most unusual manner. When a Canadian teacher is given a last-second opportunity as an exchange teacher in London, England, he’s quick to say yes, even though it uproots his fragile six-year-old daughter and distances them from his travel-reluctant mother at Christmas. Ending up next door to Staci who’s raising five-year-old Tommy is an answer to prayers Kelly hadn’t thought to make. Staci is a self-sufficient writer, able single parent, and content to quietly raise her child in peace. She’s not looking for complications of any kind—certainly not of the heart, as in potentially giving hers to a man who’s only in town for a few months.
The short but intense romance develops quickly. When you
know, you know about love. But Kelly is on temporary assignment, and falling in
love just can’t be an option. Can it… Even though they match in every way, how
can either of them risk their hearts or children’s hopes? It romance and
sight-seeing in London Town for Christmas. Told though both Kelly and Staci’s
viewpoints, the reader is charmed by their respectful, emotional stories.
Clare is a British author. She lives in a small town in England with her husband, whom she married in 1992, and her three children. Writing from a early childhood and encouraged by her teachers, she graduated from rewriting fairy stories through fanfiction 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.
Her books are based in the UK, with a couple of exceptions, thus, although the
spelling may be American, the books contain British language and terminology. The
first draft of every novel is hand written.
She has been a Christian for more than half her life. She goes to Carey Baptist
where she is one of four registrars.
She can be found at:
http://www.revell124.plus.com/clarerevell/
https://www.facebook.com/ClareRevellAuthor
https://twitter.com/ClareRevell
http://telscha.blogspot.co.uk/
