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Author Bio:

USA Today best-selling author Patricia Davids was born in Kansas. After forty years as a NICU nurse, Pat switched careers to become an inspirational writer. She now enjoys laid-back life on a Kansas farm, spending time with her family and playing with her dog Sugar, who thinks fetch should be a twenty-four-hour-a-day game. When not throwing a ball, Pat is happily dreaming up new stories where love and faith conquer all.

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Book Summary:

USA Today bestselling author Patricia Davids continues her Amish romance series set in Harts, Haven, Kansas, with this emotional story about a cancer survivor and a grieving widower who are brought together at Christmas by the matchmakers of Harts Haven who have a little help from the hero’s daughters.

With Christmas just around the corner, an Amish cancer survivor moves to Harts Haven for a fresh start as the new schoolteacher. She wants to escape the pity that she felt from the people back home and throw herself into her new job. She’s worried her illness might return at any moment and isn’t looking for love. Neither is a local widower with two daughters. The loss of his wife devastated him, and he never wants to feel that kind of pain again. The matchmakers of Harts Haven set their sights on the pair, by having them work together on a living Nativity for the school Christmas program. With three elderly matchmakers, a school full of rambunctious children, a handsome widower, rowdy sheep and one cantankerous donkey, Harts Haven is about to witness an unforgettable Christmas Eve where two unlikely people discover healing love is the true Christmas gift.

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Book excerpt: Brenda Novak’s Keep Me Warm at Christmas

Maybe this Christmas can thaw his frozen heart—and heal hers.

Hollywood starlet Tia Beckett knows one moment can change your life. Her career had been on the fast track before a near-fatal accident left her with a debilitating facial scar. Certain her A-lister dreams are over, she agrees to house-sit at her producer’s secluded estate in Silver Springs. It’s the escape from the limelight Tia’s been craving until she discovers she’s not the only houseguest for the holidays. And her handsome new roomie is impossible to ignore.

Author Brenda Novak is a New York Times bestselling author and has written over 60 novels. She’s also an eight-time Rita nominee, won The National Reader’s Choice, The Bookseller’s Best, among other awards. She runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity that has raised more than $2.5 million for diabetes research (a cause dear to her heart, due to her son having diabetes). She is a mother of five and married to the love of her life.

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Book Spotlight: Susan Mallery’s The Christmas Wedding Guest

#1 New York Times bestselling author of novels about women and their relationships centered around friendship, family, and romance, Susan Mallery, grew up in California and has now made her life in Seattle with her husband. Mallery is passionate about animal welfare and has two ragdoll cats, and a poodle who claim her as their mom. Her latest book, The Christmas Wedding Guest, is about Reggie Sommerville who desires to come back home for Christmas, especially since it’s been a year and a half that her boyfriend, Jake, proposed and then broke up with her, all in one weekend. However, facing the entire town is stressful for her.

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When her parents reveal that they’re renewing their vows in the laving wedding they’ve always wanted, Reggie’s mom asks her to be a bridesmaid, and Reggie certainly can’t say no. She believes the town would be gossiping about her relationship with Jake, but then she runs into her first love, Toby, who also broke her heart many years ago, living in town, and raising his son. She never thought things between them would ever resurface, but Reggie is in for many pleasant surprises this Christmas.

Dena Sommerville has only ever wanted one thing: to have a child. But motherhood has been alluding her because she never met the right man…until she took the bull by the horns and decided to have a baby as a single mom. She knew it would be difficult and the morning sickness alone is knocking her down for the count, but she’s determined to do this on her own. So when a handsome musician checks into the inn where she works, Dena is surprised when a friendship develops. He has his own issues to work through—that much is clear. But she can’t deny there’s something between them.

This Christmas, guilted into being bridesmaids at their parents’ vow renewal ceremony, Reggie and Dena Sommerville just might find the most unexpected gift of all—love.