Grace Awards Christmas Book Bash ~ day three

REVENGE by Paula Rose

Do have shopping fatigue and/or a to-do list that just doesn’t end before your white Christmas arrives? Didn’t you wrap and tape gifts until your fingers hurt but start the shortage of bows this year? Stop. Breathe. Take some time for you, and treat yourself to a romantic suspense tale titled REVENGE! As a job coach, it’s up to Olivia Foster to ensure her clients work in a safe environment, understand their positions, and serve their employer’s mission. The death of her brother drives her career choice, and it remains her only focus until one of her autistic clients goes missing. Olivia’s employer ends her position. Added to the suspect list, she makes plans to bring the missing young man home. Meanwhile, Detective Lt. Phillip Landon second-guesses his career choice, but his well-honed instincts see major flaws in this missing person’s case. Surprising contacts, mysterious happenings, and threats turn deadly. Can he keep Olivia safe, protect his heart, and remove the job coach from someone’s target list? Amazon,  Barnes and Noble.

WATERS OF SEPARATION by Carol McClain

Another child will haunt you this Christmas. In Waters of Separation, Africa’s secrets resurrect the despair physician assistant Anna Haas though she buried in America. She uncovers child slavery, and her own pregnancy threatens her mission and her life in the Ivory Coast. Waters of Separation is an evocative tale that will haunt you and then lift you up with God’s beautiful gift of redemption. It transpires between New York and Africa—a tale of faith and courage and salvation, both physical and spiritual. Its themes are redolent of Christ’s Christmas gift, and will make a treasured gift to those you care about.  Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Desert Breeze

DWF: DIVORCED WHITE FEMALE by Carol McClain

DWF will have you ho-ho-hoing this Christmas season with its humor and eternal themes displaying those elements of life that most matter to humans. If you think you’ve experienced a mid-life crisis, Cheryl Chandler will prove you wrong. Ditched by a philandering husband, rearing three weird teens (and a toddler—her failed attempt to save her marriage), she knows only one thing will redeem her life: a man—any man so long as he’s hot. But how does a forty-something divorcé do that? The kids have the answer. Go online. When she knows online dating is doomed, she meets the man of her dreams. Smart, witty and enchanting, Carleton Seymour sweeps her off her feet, but he’s got to meet the kids. Cheryl refuses to hide them—although the thought is tempting. First there’s New Age Andi who changes college majors more frequently than a yogi changes poses. Bobbie’s OCD could drive Mother Teresa nuts. Taylor, once an adolescent drug mule and now a born again teen, fears all will forget they’re sinners. And of course, Marina, the toddler, will make her presence known. In DW, an inspiration woman’s fiction, you will laugh and love with the characters and come away transformed and transported by Cheryl’s antics. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Desert Breeze

DESERT DUET by Debra E. Marvin, a Christmas novella

Merry Christmas from Humbug. AZ. Wish You Were Here! It’s 1933 in the good old US of A. In the midst of drought, the Depression, and gangsters on the lam, America finds solace in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Ex-pilot Eugene Tanner, determined to pen the lyrics for the movie industry’s first “Best Song” award, books a rushed December stay at the remote Humbug Creek Guest Ranch. (A Gold Mine of a Getaway!) Where better to find inspiration for an epic Western, than amid all that trail dust and burnt coffee? Thea Knight gives up her short holiday break from the studio’s costume department to play cowgirl hostess at her family’s struggling guest ranch. But instead of helping their witty and handsome guest, she becomes his biggest distraction. Old flames and past regrets take a backseat when the pair become embroiled in a ghost town mystery marring Humbug, Arizona’s rustic Christmas. Thankfully, the cowgirl is as fast with her Winchester as she is with her comebacks. Now 99 cents.  Amazon, website