Thankfully in Love Anna J. Stewart, Kayla Perrin, Melinda Curtis, Cari Lynn Webb

 Description:

USA Today bestselling romance authors come together for Thanksgiving to tell the stories of four women who have not had the best experiences with the men they have dated in their pasts. With the help of family and loved ones this holiday season, can they learn to open their hearts one more time? If they can dare to make the leap, they could find themselves finally, thankfully in love…

There's no place like home, especially during Thanksgiving. After spending ten years as an officer and analyst with a special division in a federal cyber-investigation, Tripp Atsila is on the brink of burnout. He returns home and meets Parker Rutledge, who changed her name and moved to a small town hoping to leave the damage her ex-husband caused behind. Now someone's found her; someone who wants to make her pay for her ex-husband's crimes. Can she trust Tripp? Can she trust anyone?

Miranda Cox isn’t looking forward to heading home for Thanksgiving. She’d raved to everyone that Matthew was the one; now she has yet another failed relationship under her belt. Despite working as a translator in Ottawa, and loving traveling abroad, she’s thirty-four and still single. Little does she know that a chance encounter at Union Station in Toronto with her childhood friend, Taz Morrison, will lead to a very special holiday. Is it finally their time? 

Chef Drew Barnett has been hired to create the perfect Thanksgiving for a potential restaurant investor and is forced to work in the client’s guesthouse kitchen due to a power outage in the main house. Jilted bride and food critic Claire Rothchild is pet-sitting a friend’s St. Bernard in the same guesthouse. Drew doesn’t know what to make of a food critic in his kitchen, just as Claire doesn’t know how to stop interfering with his dishes and passing tidbits to a mooching pooch. Is this a recipe for a Dog-Gone Holiday? Or for love? 

Born with a degenerative eye disease, photographer Kelsey Thomas knows two things: she will be blind within five years and her family wants to see her married and settled first. Then Kelsey's boyfriend breaks up with her one week before she planned to introduce him to her family at her grandmother's island commitment ceremony. At the resort bar, she meets Dr. Noah Lawson. He spends his life inside his lab developing cutting-edge techniques to slow the progression of vision loss. He’s been offered funding with strings—save the eyesight of a relative of a wealthy investor—but he’s reluctant to agree. Noah is smitten by Kelsey—so much so that he agrees to be her fake wedding date for the Thanksgiving holidays. Too late, he realizes her connection to his potential investor. Is this a set-up? Or fate? 

My thoughts on the book:

No Place Like Home- Anna J Stewart:

Sometimes coming home is all you need and I think Tripp found that out in this story. He was hard headed and burnt out but also ready to take on what was given. Parker is a fighter and also ready to take on what is handed to her. Over al this story was super cute a no a quick read

Second Chances- Kayla Perrin:

This story why it’s totally predictable it’s so cute. Remembering your first love and wondering what could have been. I liked Melanie she was your typical nosy sister but also wanted what was best for Miranda. Taz came off a bit intense but he seem to have a huge heart. Cute story over all! 

Dog-Gone Holiday- Melinda Curtis:

I mean dogs can talk and we can hear right?!! I loved Olly he was so cut and so full of personality for sure. I liked Drew he kept sticking his foot in his mouth but he was always fun to laugh with. Claire just wanted what was busy for Olly and you could tell her love for him throughout the story. This story was a clean read and fun! 

Love Guides the Way- Cari Lynn Webb:

Nothing good comes from keeping secrets and Kelsey's family seems to have a big one in this story. I liked Kelsey she faced life without her vision and she took the time she had left to enjoy life through the rest of her vision. I liked Noah he had a big heart and wanted to help everyone he could not matter what. I loved Gam she got her way not matter what a was a pistol if we all could be like her when we get older. Over all this story was super cute and a fun read.

I think the only thing I didn't like about all these stories where they were too short and I was left wanting so much more. Over all this was a fun story and I could not put it down so worth the read and will put you in the thankful spirit. 

Where you can buy the book:

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Where you can connect with the author:

Anna J. Stewart

Melinda Curtis

Cari Lynn Webb

Kayla Perrin


While at your favorite bookstore/website check out Anna J. Stewart's, Kayla Perrin's, Melinda Curtis' and Cari Lynn Webb's other books, You will not be disappointed. Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments. 

Amish Christmas Miracles- Various authors

 

You guys today I sit down with Mary Alford one of the authors from the up coming book Amish Christmas Miracles.  Stick around for a giveaway and find out how to enter. 

Blurb: 

Spend Christmas in Amish country.

As snow falls softly outside the window, curl up by the fire with this collection of 14 stories by your favorite Amish fiction authors. Let them transport you to Amish communities all across the country.

Travel to small towns where horses clip-clop down the road, farms dot the snow-covered landscape, and families gather to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas.

Sigh over sweet stories that touch your heart. Laugh, cry, rejoice, and smile as couples renew their faith and find their perfect soul mates.

These heartwarming tales of faith, hope, love, and Christmas miracles are a special gift to you from Kathleen Fuller, Lenora Worth, Adina Senft, Laura Bradford, Jennifer Beckstrand, Jennifer (J.E.B.) Spredemann, Rachel J. Good, Serena B. Miller, Mary Alford, Loree Lough, Dana R. Lynn, Susan Simpson, Tracy Fredrychowski, and Ashley Emma.

May you be richly blessed this holiday season!  

*So, I have three of your books on my TBR pile when I started this one, do you find it hard writing back to back books like that? Keeping things separate?

 

It is hard at times, especially when you shift between genres such as suspense and Amish romance like in Amish Christmas Miracles. Which is why I make lots of notes for each book I’m writing. That includes character bios, setting information, and a detailed story outline. If I’m working on a series, such as my Courage Under Fire series, the story information can become quite long. 

    

*I know this Story is in a book with 13 other stories and then you have another mystery book with 9 other authors. Do you enjoy collaborating with others? 

 

I do enjoy working with other authors. I have had the privilege of collaborating with some incredibly talented authors and I have learned something from each of them. When you put together so many different voices into one collection, you have something for every reader no matter the genre.        

 

 

*This story is centered around Christmas which hands down for me is one of my favorites, what is your favorite holiday? What do you enjoy most about that holiday?

 

Oh, I agree with you, Sarah. Christmas is my favorite holiday, too. I love it when the holiday decorations start showing up at the stores because making the house feel special for Christmas is so much fun. It is a holiday filled with a hope that came with the birth of our Savior. His birth, death, and resurrection changed everything for our world.  

 

 

*So, I love when authors write children into books and make them shine and I feel like you did that with Lyddie! Do you have a favorite character in this book or any of your upcoming books? And do you find it hard to write about kids and their personalities? 

 

Lyddie was so much fun to write. I love her excitement at moving to a new location. She and I have one thing in common, she loves the snow about as much as I do. 

Kids are interesting to write about in that they are just honest and straightforward. I love their enthusiasm for life and the simple trust they have. It makes me wish we could all be like that. It’s a shame life has a way of taking away that curious wonder we have as children.   

I also enjoyed writing Abigail and Simon’s story. Their romance touched my heart. Two former sweethearts reunited. The mistakes that drove them apart in the past are worked out and they find the happily-ever-after they so deserve.     

 

 

Thank you so much for always being willing to work with me and for all the amazing books. I cannot wait for all these books you have coming out!!!

 

Thank you, Sarah. I so appreciate your support. For authors, it means the world to have readers spread the news about our books.   

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Ok now that you have made it to the end I want to take a moment again to thank Mary for stopping by and answering my questions. Now for the giveaway follow the steps below and be entered to win a copy of Amish Christmas Miracles. 

Disclosure- None of the authors in this book are involved in this giveaway and I am only responsible for the giveaway. Winner are chosen at random and will receive a kindle version of this book. 

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