About The Book:
Title: A FAMILY BY CHRISTMAS
Author: Viv Royce
Pub.
Date: October 14, 2019
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Bliss)
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 200
Chocolatier Emma Miller
has a new business selling bonbons to the residents of the quaint town of Wood
Creek. When a tiny visitor stops by her shop with an interesting request, Emma
is intrigued. The young girl needs chocolates that will help her widowed dad
fall in love, preferably with her teacher. What Emma didn't count on was
Casey's ever so charming and handsome dad, Grant, stepping into her life. She
has to remind herself to be cautious because the one thing she learned in
foster care is that people always leave.
Pilot Grant Galloway is
touched by his daughter's gift and is curious about the person who made the
world-class chocolates. But when he steps into Emma's shop full of delicious
smells and tasty morsels, he forgets to breathe. And it has nothing to do with
his favorite dessert. She's pretty and kind, and when she has to deal with a
difficult client, his protective instincts kick into high gear. But he risked
his heart once. When his wife died, it left him broken. He's just now beginning
to pick up the pieces, and he and his daughter will be leaving town once the
holidays are over.
Thanks to some Christmas
wishes, though, these two might discover that their carefully laid plans are
about to change.
Now on to the excerpt!
“Oh, no.” The
girl’s cheeks turned as red as her little coat. “I don’t want any. It’s for
Daddy.”
“For your father?”
Emma asked, a little surprised. Her customers were mainly women who bought the
treats for other women—mothers in law, sisters, friends—or who wanted to
impress guests at a party.
The girl said,
“You have to make them especially. Grandma said it. She said that you can make
people fall in love.”
Emma’s eyes
widened. “That I can do what?” she asked.
The girl hung her
head and said something in a whisper.
Emma rounded the
counter and squatted beside the girl. “What’s that? You can say it in my ear.”
She tucked the white cotton of the protective cap behind her ear as if to hear
better.
“What’s that for?”
the little girl asked, eyeing the cloth on Emma’s head.
“It’s for when I
work with the chocolate. To prevent any hairs from falling into it. That
wouldn’t be nice for the customers. I also wear plastic gloves when I take
bonbons out of their tray and put them into a box. So I don’t leave any
fingerprints on them.”
The girl giggled.
“You’re smart.” She looked Emma over. “I think you can really make people fall
in love.”
“Why did your
grandmother say that?”
“I don’t know. But
it was about chocolate. And you have a chocolate shop here. You can help me to…” She fell silent and eyed Emma as if she was suddenly reluctant to
share. She wore a mitten and, turning her palm up, she opened her hand. On the
wool rested a few coins, probably not making two dollars. “I don’t know if you
sell them like Grandpa sells plants,” the girl said with a weighty frown. “They
go one by one or by the dozen. I’d really like a dozen, because then I can be
sure Daddy will really fall in love. You see, I don’t think he wants to.”
“I see,” Emma
said, furiously trying to process everything.
“Last week Aunt
Fay was watching a movie where they kiss, and she asked Daddy to come and watch
with her. But he said he didn’t want to see it. And when he noticed I had
overheard, he told me that he doesn’t like kissing. That he thinks it’s
stupid.” She laughed. “He asked me if I think it’s stupid too and he tickled me
all of the time. I had to laugh and laugh until I fell on the floor. Then he
carried me to bed.” She became serious again. “Then I thought about kissing. I
don’t know if it’s stupid. Grandma and Grandpa kiss all the time and they’re
happy. I want Daddy to be happy.” She put her mitten on Emma’s arm. “Please
help me make Daddy happy again.”
About Viv:
With the same trademark atmospheric settings, relatable characters and
cute canines that made several of her cozy mysteries #1 Amazon US and Canada
bestsellers in multiple categories, Vivian Conroy pens romance as Viv Royce,
creating heartthrob heroes ranging from rugged pilots to royals reluctant to
believe in true love who meet their match in that girl next door or the
co-worker with the business ideas exactly opposing their own – happy endings guaranteed! When not
frequenting fictional worlds, Viv loves to hike (especially in the mountains),
craft with paper, felt and clay, and hunt for the perfect cheesecake. Quite
active on Twitter, she's the founder of #HistFicChat, a live Twitter chat about
historical fiction, featuring authors like Kate Quinn, Anna Lee Huber and Susan
Spann, and would love for readers to follow her and connect via @VivWrites.
Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a $15 Amazon
Gift Card, International.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
|
10/14/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/14/2019
|
Spotlight
|
|
|
10/15/2019
|
Interview
|
|
|
10/15/2019
|
Interview
|
|
|
10/16/2019
|
Interview
|
|
|
10/16/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/17/2019
|
Spotlight
|
|
|
10/17/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/18/2019
|
Excerpt
|
|
|
10/18/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/14/2019
|
Interview
|
|
|
10/14/2019
|
Excerpt
|
|
|
10/15/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/15/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/16/2019
|
Guest
Post
|
|
|
10/16/2019
|
Interview
|
|
|
10/17/2019
|
Review
|
|
|
10/17/2019
|
Spotlight
|
|
|
10/18/2019
|
Excerpt
|
|
|
10/18/2019
|
Review
|
Loved the writing style exampled in the excerpt and the cover is really sweet, so this looks to be a great story to start my Christmas stories reading :)
ReplyDelete