Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!
This #blogmas on Jorie Loves A Story you’ll find a lot of hearty varieties of stories being featured as I look into the genres I regularly love to read and have started to seek out finding #newtomeauthors within those genres I can look forward to reading in the New Year. As you might have already suspected the Harlequin Heartwarming imprint by Harlequin Books is one of my top favourites – year round without fail! I love setting my heart & mind into their series and one-offs, as the authors I find penning these stories are curating a wonderful landscape of relationship-based Romances which are my favourites to seek out! They write them with a heap of heart, a grounding of family and/or community (or both!) whilst giving me a lovely realistic backdrop of a story to soak inside!
There are loads of lovely Harlequin Heartwarming authors I haven’t yet had a chance to read and/or feature on Jorie Loves A Story. This December, I found a few I can spotlight and draw attention to during #blogmas and this is my first author I wanted to mention as my showcases this month start to get underway in full force. My readings have been a bit hit/miss as December began but I’m hoping before the middle of the month, I’ll be able to share some new reviews & discuss the stories I am currently reading and/or listening via audiobook as we move towards the Christmas and holiday season in full earnest.
What drew my eye to this story and the series which it is set inside is actually the *length!* of the series itself – 10 books strong!? Imagine!! I get as giddy as my Mum whenever I find a series which is fully in-progress and has been making keen strides with readers throughout the duration of the series. Longer series are a sweet joy for me because it means you can spend more time with the writer and their characters whilst getting to know every inch of their setting, community and which of the characters are going to come and go as new installments arrive in the series itself. It makes for a lot of lovely hours of reading and series as big as this one are a sweet find indeed!
Plus, I have a soft spot in my bookish heart for Christmas Romances & stories set at Christmas! After all, it wasn’t too many years ago where I first started to read the Coffeehouse Mysteries by Cleo Coyle by picking up “Holiday Grind” and finding myself so wholly enthused by what I found in that mystery that I immediately started to backread the whole series starting with “On What Grounds”. It is still a project I am undertaking today along with my readings of Aunt Dimity by Nancy Alterton as I discovered both series during the same year of 2008.
I find sometimes reading a Christmas installment in a series is a good footing on the development of the series and of where you expect to find the writer shifting the series forward. Sometimes their just a hoot to read and give you a bit of holiday licence to break your own mainstay preference (like mine!) of reading series in order! I know if I see this lovely at my library I’ll be picking it up to read!!
Curiously – when you come across a book series such as the Texas Rebels one I’m featuring today – do you get as wicked excited as I do about finding a series already in-progress where you can binge read the series OR would you prefer to find series which are just starting to gain traction within the first 1-3 stories?
A child’s Christmas wish…
Gives love a second chance
Becky Tullous has never forgiven boy-next-door Bo Goodnight for breaking her teenage heart. Now the SWAT sergeant is back in Horseshoe, Texas, and getting far too attached to her three-year-old daughter. Becky never wanted Bo in Luci’s life, but her developmentally delayed little girl is making great progress with him around.
Will Bo prove he’s worth a second chance this Christmas?
Add to LibraryThing | ISBN: 978-1-335-88998-0
This series has 10 books inside it including:
Be sure to visit her FantasticFiction page to find the full listing!
Published by: Harlequin Heartwarming (@HarlequinBooks)
an imprint of Harlequin Books
Converse via: #ContemporaryRomance &/or #ChristmasRomance
as well #HolidayReads or #ChristmasReads and #HarlequinHeartwarming
Enjoy an Extract from
“A Christmas Proposal”:
BECKY STOPPED OUTSIDE the door when she heard Bo’s deep smooth masculine voice, which touched her skin like cashmere, soothing, comfortable and deliciously rich. The baritone made her want to lean her head against the wall and absorb every nuance of his voice into her skin.
“You have a lot of stuffed animals and dolls,” Bo was saying.
“This. Is. Bear. Soft.” In Becky’s mind’s eye she could see Luci rubbing her face against the stuffed animal.
“What’s this one’s name?”
He wasn’t worming his way into Luci’s life. She stepped into the room and Luci ran to her.
“Mom-my.”
Becky picked her up and kissed her cheek. “I need to talk to Bo.”
Luci ran to the kitchen and Becky faced Bo with steel-like determination. He stood from the bed and his tall frame looked out of place in this pink little girl’s room. Dark eyes stared back at her with a heat level that matched hers and she didn’t know if there was a way to win against him. It would be better if he wasn’t so darn good-looking. With his longish hair and growth of beard he reminded her of Keanu Reeves. And Bo was just as big a daredevil as the characters the actor played.
“You want to talk? Talk. I’ve been trying to get you to talk for years so this is a momentous occasion.”
“Stay away from my daughter.” Becky was tired, so tired, and this bickering was not helping. “Bo, please go home.”
“Okay.” He took a step toward her and she had to resist taking a step backward. A musky scent mixed with Irish Spring soap drifted to her, weakening her resolve. “I’ll go, but first, I want to know who Luci’s father is.”
“Bo…”
“I’m her father, aren’t I? You’ve kept it from me all these years.”
This is one of those potboiler scenes – wherein one character drops a bit of shocking revelation on another character and the scene will either make/break the connection they share together. Plus of course, if the scene reveals her unwillingness to tell the truth about the paternity of her child and/or if he happens to be mistaken about the timing of the pregnancy – wells, you can see how quickly this kind of conversation can get out of control! I’d love to be a bug on the wall and see where Warren took it! Did she drag it out? Did she leave a door open for both of them or was it one of those shocking revelations where you had to sit and pause a bit before you could learn more details in the next chapter? Or several chapters, more like!
The more interesting part is found in the synopsis – you can almost surmise the answer Becky doesn’t want to admit and you have to admire a Mum who wants to be protective of her daughter who has special needs!! Definitely a series I can see getting lost inside and finding the stay a wonderful welcome. I will be adding this to my ILL list in the New Year as I’ve already maxed out my end of the year requests.
About Linda Warren
Two time Rita® nominated author Linda Warren has written forty-five books for Harlequin. A native Texan, she’s a member of Romance Writers of America and the West Houston Chapter. Drawing upon her years of growing up on a ranch, she writes about some of her favorite things: Western-style romance, cowboys and country life. She married her high school sweetheart and they live on a lake in central Texas. He fishes and she writes. Works perfect.
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