GIVEAWAY: a copy of SLEIGH BELLS RING
Admit it. You love Christmas romances just as much as I do. Why do these stories touch our hearts so profoundly? Because every page engages our five senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
They evoke our memories of the scent of mulled cider sipped near a real Christmas tree. The way a warm sugar cookie melts on our tongues. Curling up under a cozy afghan in front of a crackling fire. Imagining the soft touch of his finger stroking the curve of our cheek. Christmas carols add the background music to our own romantic Hallmark movie.
Christmas is the season of miracles, and we want to believe in miracles. But most of all, it’s the season of love. Sweet romance novels stoke our imaginations with the possibility that we, too, will live happily ever after with our one true love.
SLEIGH BELLS RING is a collection of four contemporary Christmas novellas in which each Tucker sister is the heroine of her own story. The Tucker girls have inherited their father’s Kentucky horse farm for Christmas. Make that . . . a run-down horse farm. It needs some serious TLC in order to make it sell-ready.
Jo-Jo, the youngest, is convinced that by recruiting her sisters and one handsome ranch hand, they can fix up the place and even celebrate one last Christmas while they’re at it.
But for the next oldest sister, Bella, returning to her childhood home in bluegrass country for Christmas seems like an impossible hurdle and not on the top of her wish list. As a Chicago business woman, she’s always spent her Christmas holiday on a sunny beach in the Caribbean.
Sophie, my sister in the novella “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” drags her feet until she’s caught by a blizzard and slides into a ditch. As the true horse-lover of the family, this equine veterinarian should be the most eager to return home. But she only remembers the disappointing memories of growing up. At thirty, love has passed her by, or has she always pushed it away? No one has ever lived up to the memories of the blue-eyed boy she used to race across open pastures. Although feisty and fun-loving as a teenager, Sophie has sobered and still nurses old wounds.
And when the fate of the horse farm is put in jeopardy because the oldest sibling Amy accidentally fraternizes with the enemy, tensions rise between the four sisters. But it’s not like the land developer stole Christmas . . . just her heart.
SLEIGH BELLS RING is about coming home, family, forgiveness, and finding love in the most unlikely of places: a Kentucky horse farm that’s been in the Tucker family for generations.
About Barbara J. Scott
An inspirational book editor for more than 18 years, Barbara has recently returned to her first love—writing! Gilead Publishing recently released her novella “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” in an inspirational contemporary collection about the four Tucker sisters—Sleigh Bells Ring. Currently, she’s editing her completed historical romance novel Dreams of My Heart, and working on another contemporary romance series. In the mid-1990s, Barbara published two bestselling novels and followed those with numerous gift books and devotionals before her long stint as a senior acquisitions editor for several Christian publishers.
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SLEIGH BELLS RING by Lenora Worth, Sandra D. Bricker, Lynette Sowell, Barbara J. Scott
Four Contemporary Romance Novellas
Santa Claus is coming to town, and so are the Tucker sisters.
Never mind a pony. The Tucker girls have inherited their father’s horse farm for Christmas. Make that . . . a run-down horse farm. It needs some serious TLC in order to make it sell-ready. Joanna knows that by recruiting her sisters and one handsome ranch hand they can fix up the place and even celebrate one last Christmas while they’re at it. However, to Isabella, returning to their home in Kentucky bluegrass country for Christmas seems like an impossible hurdle. Can her Chicago boyfriend make life merry and bright again?
One thing’s for sure—nothing is peace on earth for Sophia as a new beau brings up old wounds. And when the fate of the horse farm is put in jeopardy because Amy accidentally fraternizes with the enemy, tensions rise. But it’s not like the land developer stole Christmas . . . just her heart.
Can the Tucker sisters have themselves a merry little Christmas?
Inspirational Romance | Holiday | Romance Contemporary [Gilead Publishing, On Sale: October 14, 2016, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781683700074 / eISBN: 9781683700111]
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