Welcome fellow Wild Rose Press author, Barbara Edwards! Her newest release, Journey of the Magi, is currently available exclusively on Kindle. It's free for a limited time, so be sure to get your copy!
I
love the Christmas holidays, but it never occurred to me to write a love story
about the season. My writing tends to be dark, edgy with a side order of paranormal.
Writing a sweet story took a lot of help from my editor. Journey of the Magi
was rejected three times before it was accepted. First It didn’t have enough
romance. I asked the editor if I could resubmit.
Although
I thought it had plenty, but I added more. Another rejection, but i was getting
stubborn. I liked Dan and Noel and wanted them to have a happy ending.
The
plot needed a few holes filled. Why was Noel in a tiny town in Minnesota at the
start of a blizzard?
Okay
I fixed that and gave her a more background to fill in the holes.
Finally
the editor loved it. I loved it. And I hope all my readers love.
Journey of the Magi
blurb:
Widow Noel Martin never breaks
promises, and she promised her kids they’d have Christmas at her childhood home
in Connecticut. But driving across country takes money. Noel is broke when a
snowstorm blows them into a tiny Minnesota café owned by a man who can change
her mind. She accepts his offer of a job. Despite her attraction to him, she
makes it clear she is only temporary help.
Dan Longstreet isn’t adopting
any more strays, but he needs a waitress. Dan works so hard to make his café a success, he doesn't have
time for love. Though Noel’s slender blonde
beauty stuns him and her two adorable children tug at his heart, he denies how
they threaten to change his life.
When tragedy strikes, their new-found love is the first victim. Noel can't stay and Dan can't leave. Will their journey be the gift that reunites them?
When tragedy strikes, their new-found love is the first victim. Noel can't stay and Dan can't leave. Will their journey be the gift that reunites them?
Free
on Amazon http://amzn.com/B00ES5DZEQ
Excerpt: Even with her knit hat pulled down over her ears, her high cheekbones and the up-tilted tip of her nose flamed as bright red as a cheap statue of a Christmas elf. She blinked in the bright light.
Dan’s pulse leaped like a startled deer. He
knew everyone who frequented the Deer Run Lounge and Cafe. She was no local
wife searching for an overdue husband or one of the three women who made a
living, if you could call it that, picking up the lumberjacks and mill workers
for an hour or two.
His blood heated but he
managed to control his urges by slowly polishing a clean glass and setting it
in the rack for the next day’s trade. Dan nodded hello.
Her over-sized man’s
winter coat trailed to her ankles, but she visibly shook. He wanted to tell her
to take off her coat and get warm. She removed her gloves, pulling the fingers
off one by one until her white hands shone in the dim light. A pale circle
around her ring finger marked the recent removal of a band.
She returned Dan’s stare.
“Is that sign in the window still good? Do you need an experienced waitress?”
Her flat, emotionless voice didn’t match the way her fingers twisted round and
round her gloves. His palms itched to cover hers until she calmed.
“Yeah.” He nodded slowly, his mouth dry.
Something in him yearned for her to be more than a passing stranger.
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