Happy December! Yes, the holidays are upon us and there's only one thing that could make me happier. The release of a new Christmas book!
Yesterday was release day for the fourth and final book in my Bliss, Texas series. Their Yuletide Healing is a sweet story about overcoming the wounds of the past to embrace the future God has called you to.
Rae, our heroine, always wanted a whole passel of kids, but her ex-husband was too focused his dreams to consider a family--until he left Rae for another woman. But Rae doesn't need a husband to have a family. Instead, she becomes a foster mom to six-year-old Maggie and her five-year-old brother, Max. Rae is determined to give them the perfect Christmas. One they will always remember, even if her dream of adopting them falls through. But her holiday plans are threatened when she's suddenly put in charge of the town's biggest holiday event.
Cole, our reclusive, anti-Christmas hero, grew up in an environment that has kept him emotionally shutdown for most of his life. That is, until his aunt coerces him into helping Rae with the town's Mistletoe Ball and he finds himself drawn to her foster son. Little Max has seen the worst life has to offer. Something Cole recognizes and has him longing to help the boy. But first, he’ll have to earn Max’s trust and that will entail spending time with the boy’s pretty foster mom.
Yeah, you know where this story is headed.
As her plans unravel, can she give her children what they truly need?
Foster mom Rae Girard’s determined to make her children’s first Christmas with her the best they’ve ever had—and she’s shocked when the town scrooge, attorney Cole Heinsohn, offers to pitch in. Rae’s young charges have melted Cole’s heart, and he wants them to experience the special day he never had. But when disaster strikes, an imperfect holiday might bring them something better: a family…
Mindy, this story sounds wonderful! Congratulations on the release of the book!
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Thank you, Edwina!
DeleteCongratulations on the release of your book! It sounds like one I’d enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne! I hope you get the opportunity to read it.
DeleteThis sounds good, Mindy. Why do we love Christmas stories? Because every human emotion is magnified at Christmas, for better or worse. And it's the best possible time to have a Happy Ending. Or in Christian fiction, a Blessed Ending.
ReplyDeleteI've just been working on my goals for December. Going to enjoy holiday with family and friends. I didn't even put down cleaning closets, I know myself. The closets will still be there in January.
Haven't been doing much with my fiction but hope to get back to it in January. But busy promoting "Redemption's Hope," so there's that.
Please put me in drawing!
Off to do holiday errands, see you Friday.
Kathy Bailey
Still your Kaybee
Making merry in New Hampshire
Kathy, as far as I'm concerned, there's never a bad time for a Christmas story. ;)
DeleteYes, the closets can wait. Enjoy those holiday errands. The right attitude going into them makes things much easier. And you might just bring a smile to some harried worker's face.
Okay, this is weird. Where did Kathy's comment go?
DeleteCongratulations Mindy on your new release. Love the cover. Have a blessed and Merry Christmas 🎄
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lucy!
DeleteMindy, I got your book yesterday, so I won't need to be put in the drawing for that. I will probably get started on it today since I am almost finished with another book. I look forward to reading it!
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it, Sandy!
DeleteCongrats Mindy! I love Christmas books, and books with kids, and I absolutely love Bliss.
ReplyDeleteDana, I love Christmas books, too. And I'm so glad you're enjoying Bliss. ;)
DeleteI love Christmas stories, Mindy.... and this one makes me smile! Congratulations on this and that wonderful new contract! Hooray for you!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ruthy!
DeleteCongratulations on your new book release, Mindy! It sounds fantastic! I love Christmas stories, especially leading up to Christmas. Throw my name in the drawing!
ReplyDeleteYou got it, Winnie. And thank you. :)
DeleteCongrats, Mindy! Your latest sounds delightful! Love those foster kids and how they'll pull the hero and heroine together! Perfect story for a HQ movie! You've got my vote!
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DeleteCongrats, Mindy! Your book sounds like my kind of book and I hope to read it I love Christmas stories and have been reading a few. Sorry I am late to comment....doctor stuff this week. Blessings on your writing!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jackie. Praying all of the doctor stuff went well.
DeleteCongratulations Mindy Love The cover of your book sounds like such a great book Please enter me in this amazing giveaway !
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sarah!
DeleteCongratulations on your new book. It has a lovely cover.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cathy!
DeleteI live in the US. Growing up I had friends in the foster care system. I used to eat over their house on Sundays sometimes and sometimes one of the foster daughters would ask me to sleep over. That family fostered four children, two boys and two girls. One brother and sister were from one family and the other brother and sister were from another family. My friend was in the foster care system unfortunately because her Dad murdered her mother right in front of her and her brother. That is a lot to get over, but her foster parents were so kind and patient. They started fostering after their boys all grew up.
ReplyDeleteWow, Ifhpueblo, there are some eerie similarities to my story here. It's sad when kids have to face the ugliness of life at such a young age. Foster parents are to be commended.
DeleteAww! I love your Bliss, Texas books! I can't believe they've come to and end :) I haven't picked this one up yet, so you can put me in the drawing, but either way I'll be reading this book!
ReplyDeleteGlynis, I hope you get a chance to read it. I mean, you gotta see how it all ends, right? ;)
DeleteCongratulations on your new book. I enjoy reading holiday books.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan!
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