Join us in celebrating the release of THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS by Kaira Rouda!
TITLE: THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS
AUTHOR: KAIRA ROUDA
ADULT CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
Release: November 10, 2014
Blurb:
At 35-years-old, Cole Stanton is burned out. His high-paced, uber-successful career has left him yearning to start over. He finds Indigo Island, buys a restaurant and settles into an uncomplicated life. But Christmas is a mess. He has over-committed the small restaurant’s resources again, and is over his head. He finds himself longing for everything he has left behind, until a chance encounter with gorgeous Lily offers a spark of salvation to his business and, perhaps his life.Beautiful pastry chef Lily Edmonds is thirty years old and heartbroken. It’s just before Christmas and she’s just been dumped by via telephone by her fiancee. Her best friend Avery Putnam invites her to Indigo Island, hoping to add joy back into Lily’s life. A chance encounter with the sexy owner of a local restaurant makes Lily feel an attraction she thought she’d never feel again, and offers her a business challenge to keep her mind focused on something other than her broken heart.
Cole Stanton and Lily Edmonds are both starting over. Will the joy of the holiday season bring them together or will the troubles with Christmas push them apart?
EXCERPT
Lily Edmonds gently pulled another soft
petal from the white daisy she held in her hand. Only one petal remained, and she looked down at the pile accumulating
on the green picnic table on the back deck of her apartment. It was a brisk December day, deceptively
cold in Atlanta, but Lily didn’t feel the chill.
He
loves me not. She tossed the stem to the ground. It had been a week since
Bob’s phone call shattered her world and undermined all of the confidence Lily
had built up in her thirty years on earth. She glanced down at the three-carat,
emerald-cut diamond, sparkling on her left finger and again felt a spurt of
tears.
“Keep the ring, Lily,” Bob had said at the
end of the call. “We did have a great time together, and I’ll always care about
you. I am sorry.”
Sorry.
He
was sorry?
After spending almost five years together,
building a relationship, planning their future, talking about the children they
would have, the life they would live, he was, simply, sorry.
Once she found out the reason he was
dumping her, Lily had been furious. She still was. She had no idea how she
would ever get over the betrayal. Her best friend, Avery Putnam, was expecting Lily
and Bob to stay with her and her family for the holidays on Indigo Island. Lily
knew she should call Avery and tell her, but she couldn't make herself pick up
the telephone. Denial was a powerful coping technique, and Lily was guilty of
pretending if she didn’t tell anyone Bob had broken off their engagement, it
might not be real. Pretending had
become her life and how she’d been able to go to work at the restaurant each
evening, a forced smile painted on her face.
Kaira Rouda is an Amazon #1 bestselling, multiple award-winning author of three women's fiction novels including HERE, HOME, HOPE, ALL THE DIFFERENCE and IN THE MIRROR.
Tule Publishing Group's Southern Born imprint is publishing her new contemporary romance series set on INDIGO ISLAND: WEEKEND WITH THE TYCOON, Book 1; LINES IN THE SAND, Book 2; and THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS, Book 3. Four more books in the series will be out in 2015.
Her nonfiction title, REAL YOU INCORPORATED: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs, continues to inspire women internationally.
She lives in Southern California with her husband and four almost-grown kids, and is at work on her next novel. Connect with her on Twitter, @KairaRouda, and on Facebook at Kaira Rouda Books. For more about Kaira and her books, please visit wwww.KairaRouda.com.
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