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
Three:
Once upon a time they’d planned to celebrate the Christmas
after high school graduation as husband and wife. A Christmas wedding, her
resplendent in a white velvet gown and carrying a bouquet of deep red roses, a
tiara in her hair. Sure, he’d done most of the planning, but she had agreed,
hadn’t she? She’d called him Prince, adding a different name depending on the
circumstances of the day—Prince Polite, Prince Pleasant, he’d heard them all.
And then she’d left him. It was as if she’d slapped him
across the face, when in reality the hurt hadn’t set in immediately. He’d been
a damn, besotted fool. The first letter he’d written her after she’d left him
cold was filled with outraged pride. The others had been demanding and then
pleading, something he never thought he’d do.
His thoughts flew back to their senior year, when he’d asked
his hockey buddies to clear tires and debris from her front lawn one Saturday
afternoon. When he’d stepped into her trailer’s run down foyer and inhaled the
smell of stale cigarettes, he’d had to push unexpected tears from his eyes. She’d
been furious, shouting at him to be a man, not a baby. Her life didn’t bother
her, so it shouldn’t bother him.
But it did bother her.
He’d seen the shame in her face and the sheen of tears, and
had realized the humiliation she must have felt. And he knew, even then, that
she was extraordinary and he didn’t deserve her. She was as precious as a rare
diamond, and he’d wanted to keep her close and safe. Otherwise, he might lose
her. And she’d left. He’d lost her. A year passed before he’d placed his feet back
on the ground and decided to move forward without her.
And then he’d heard she was back in town.
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This book looks great! I love a new twist on an old fairy tale.
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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