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The Gift of the Inn (Golden Keyes Parsons) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Despite her best efforts to go through the motions and the good fortune to have a husband stationed stateside rather than in the midst of the brutal combat unfolding in Europe and the Pacific, Christmas Eve is a less than festive time for innkeeper Naomi Lockhart. It’s been especially hard since she, her husband, Quenton, and their daughters restored her parents’ Colorado boarding house and turned it into a charming inn. Residing in the setting of the tragedy and haunted by a heartbreaking and terrible loss, Naomi can’t help but relive the Christmas Eve so

28 November 2017

First Line Fridays – 17 November 2017 – One Enchanted Noel (Melissa Tagg)

Welcome to another edition of First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I know all my American friends are gearing up for Thanksgiving, but here in Australia, Christmas is in the air. The jacaranda and flame trees have been flowering for a few weeks, so there’s a profusion of purple and red foliage amongst the green as we drive around town. The shops are bedecked in tinsel and other decorations. There’s no denying it. Christmas is just around the corner. Also just around the corner—and much closer, even, than Christmas—is the release of the third novella in Melissa Tagg’s Enchanted Christmas Collection: One

17 November 2017

Christmas with Melissa Tagg!

Hello readers! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, for those of you who celebrate it. I’ve been getting into the Christmas spirit with some fantastic Christmas novellas that have released over the last couple of weeks, and I’m super excited to have Melissa Tagg sharing a bit of Christmas spirit with me on my blog today! She writes some of my favourite contemporary romances and, in case you missed it, her second Christmas novella released earlier this week. (You can read my review for that here). When I asked Melissa what Christmas snack she might want to share

28 November 2016

More Christmas Fiction!

Time for another instalment of my Christmas novella spotlight posts 🙂 This week I have Eva Marie Everson’s God Bless Us Every One, which weaves themes from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol through the God Bless Us Every One by Eva Marie Everson Charlene Dixon—called Charlie by family and friends—is devastated at the recent loss of her job. For the last five years, the twenty-seven-year-old has blossomed as the activities director of an exclusive all-girls school. But when a misunderstanding with the headmistress leads to a pink slip right before the holidays, Charlie packs up her dreams and returns to

13 November 2016

Christmas Love!

I haven’t typically been a ‘seasonal’ reader in the past – reading Christmas themed stories, for example, at Christmas – but this year it has been a little difficult to resist, because there are just so many fantastic Christmas novellas releasing! So over the next couple of weeks I’m going to do some blog posts spotlighting some of these Christmas novellas. Coming up later in the month, I will have Melissa Tagg’s One Enchanted Eve – which I have been warned might just have the best kiss ever! – and there will also be Eva Marie Everson’s God Bless Us

10 November 2016

Live the Christmas Story

You may think you know the Christmas story, but nothing has ever brought it alive for me like these three books by Bodie & Brock Thoene. Currently on sale at Amazon.com (affiliate links). Australian Kindle buyers use links below: Fourth Dawn Fifth Seal Sixth Covenant *Note: All are part of the AD Chronicles series, which put flesh on some of the

2 December 2015