A Snowy White Christmas
by Josie Riviera
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance (sweet)
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BLURB:
Margaret
Snow doesn’t believe in fairy tales, but as a devoted mother she’s determined
to give her five-year-old daughter a Christmas filled with heart-warming
memories.
The once successful
LA swimsuit model returns to her small upstate New York town to buy back the
foreclosed trailer she once called home. Her menagerie of rescue animals travel
with her.
She doesn’t expect to
see her former high school sweetheart, the athletic, ever-popular, and decisive
Fernando Brandt.
Sparks fly when she
realizes that the teenage hockey star is now a successful Realtor who is also
interested in her dilapidated trailer for reasons of his own.
But can she resist
the handsome, charismatic Prince Charming a second time?
And can she surrender
her insecurities and accept the true gift of Christmas, finally feeling worthy
of unconditional love?
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Excerpt
Two:
All the poise and modeling classes were forgotten in the
space of a second.
Fernando. Fernando. Fernando. It couldn’t be, not after all
these years. She drew in a breath and held it.
He brushed a hand through his dark hair, dampened from the
icy weather. “I heard you were back in town.”
She swallowed. How did a man look so put together in this
type of weather? Her voice returned and matched her shaking body. “You live in
Owanda?”
“I thought I did, although you’re making me question it.” He
looked around, a slight smile gracing his mouth. “Remember we lived two blocks
from each other?”
Except she’d lived in the double-wide trailer at the edge of
a trailer park and he’d lived in a cozy bungalow with white shingles and a red
front door. She looked off for a moment, needing to focus on something else,
anything else. Grumpy appeared to be sleeping.
“How could I ever forget?” she asked.
Fleeting hurt dimmed his gaze, but the smile remained. “You
forgot quickly, actually.” He took a step forward, seemed to think better of
getting closer, and halted. “I’ve missed you.” He glanced at the parrot. “Don’t
tell me, let me guess. He’s blind.”
“Deaf.”
“Does he talk?”
“No, but sometimes he sings off-key.” She looked pointedly
toward the street. “Probably because he’s speechless at the terrible weather.”
Fernando laughed. “It’s not so bad here. Summers are very
pleasant.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Amazon
Bestselling Author, Josie Riviera, is a member of Romance Writers of America
(RWA). She writes contemporary and historical sweet and Christian romances.
She’s a transplanted New Yorker now living in the sunny Carolinas. She has
three grown children and shares the empty nest with her husband and the family
dog.
Josie's an
expert at board games and a compulsive reader of every genre, especially
romance. In her spare time, she eats Peppermint Patties because they're lower
in calories than other chocolate candy.
You can email
her at josieriviera@aol.com
She ALWAYS
answers.
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Josie.Riviera
Tweet me at@Josieriviera
Visit my
blog, The Italian Blog, for recipes and updates at josieriviera.wordpress.com
Other Books
by Josie Riviera:
Seeking
Patience (Regency) http://tinyurl.com/a9nnbwy
Seeking
Catherine (Tudor Novella) http://tinyurl.com/9cka84m
We'd Rather
be Writing http://amzn.com/B01638N5PO
Lightning
Strikes http://amzn.com/B0090MXP0Q
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Josie will be awarding a $10 Amazon or
B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $10
Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn host.
Happy Hump Day. Thanks for the great posts!
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ReplyDeleteWhat is your favorite fairy tale?
A Snowy White Christmas is loosely based on the fairy tale, Snow White, and Margaret, the heroine, is said to be Snow White's original name. But that's where the similarities end because this novella explores childhood deafness, dwarfism, pets with deformities (yes, a deaf parrot) and sickle cell sickness.
Readers are saying that A Snowy White Christmas reads like a Hallmark movie. Please leave a comment and hope you enjoy this "sweet" Christmas novella.
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Its almost the weekend. Have any special plans?
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