Happy Friday! Oh, what glorious words. I get to spend the morning with my beloved husband before he goes to work for the weekend, but on the bright side there are no sleepovers scheduled or anything important to do. Guess what I'll be doing? Reading all weekend!
Anyhoo, today is a book blast for Untangling the Knot by Deanne Wilsted. And guess what? The author will be awarding a $10 gift card to Amazon or Barnes And Noble, so be sure to go here and enter for a chance to win. Enjoy!
“I did what?”
Twenty-eight
year old Gabriella Bessu is St. Therese’s meticulous wedding ceremony
coordinator. So the fact that she has mistakenly signed her newest couple up
for an annulment, rather than a wedding, sends her Catholic guilt into
overdrive.
But
who can blame her? The groom is gorgeous and his two kids tug at Gabriella’s
heart in a way that overcomes all her best intentions. Before long she’s in
over her head, fixing her mixed-up plans and helping the children and dad come
to terms with their haunting grief for the mother and wife they lost years
earlier.
Can
Gabriella untangle her own fears and accept the messy life that God has handed
them?
EXCERPT:
“Umm,
Gabriella,” Chloe said, “I don’t think that’s the plumber. It sounds like . .
.”
The last
thing Ryan had expected to see when he’d entered the cottage was Gabriella flat
on her back in a puddle of water, inspecting the rear of the toilet. Chloe was
holding a bucket and a sopping wet towel, and Peter was nowhere to be seen.
“Hi,
Chloe,” he said quickly. “Where’s Peter?”
“Dad!”
Peter came flying from another room and flung himself into Ryan’s arms.
“RYAN?”
Gabriella yelled and quickly sat up. The thump of her head smacking the toilet
bowl echoed around the tiny room.
“Ow,” she
cried. “Damn it! Ow, ow, ow.”
Ryan
grimaced. Gabriella sat on the wet floor, near tears, rubbing at the welt
already forming on her forehead.
“I’m
sorry,” she said, clearly at the end of her rope. “I can’t believe I said that
in front of the kids. It’s just, everything has gone wrong today.”
She hung
her head in her lap and began to cry for real.
Ryan had
to hold back a smile. She looked so much like a wet cat. And, to top it off,
she had yet to hear how wrong things had really gone with the day.
“Come on,
now. It’s not that bad,” he finally said. “We’ll get it all fixed. Don’t
worry.”
Chloe’s
face lit up with an expression he hadn’t seen in years. For a few moments at
least he was back to being her superhero dad.
AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
With
an English teacher for a mom, DEANNE WILSTED, grew up reciting conjugation
instead of nursery rhymes. Now, forty years later, she's sharing that special
skill through her writing and her mothering. Her first book, a contemporary
romance called BETTING JESSICA, was released October 2011. Her second
Novel, UNTANGLING THE KNOT, is due out in February 2013 from Soul Mate
Publishing. She is currently marketing her third book for publication and
writing her fourth, fifth and sixth while blogging about the crazy stuff she
overhears while writing.
LINKS:
Author
Follow Links –
@dwilsted
- https://twitter.com/dwilsted
Goodreads author page- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5294824.Deanne_Wilsted
Amazon
author page - http://amzn.com/e/B005YHFBQ2
Untangling the Knot Purchase Links – these will need to be updated
when the direct POP links are live, Feb 13th. Also, we will add
amazon, itunes, nook and smashwords. Thanks.
3 comments:
Thank you for hosting this tour!
Hi Lindsay...
Thanks so much for hosting me today. I hope it is the start of a wonderful, relaxed weekend for you.
I'm looking forward to seeing what your readers have to say about their own tangled up knots so I will check back and reply to comments and questions. In the meantime, though, I just wanted to say a huge thanks for sharing the journey.
Cheers,
Deanne
Reading all weekend sounds good to me.
I'm the queen of tangled knots I think, but too private to air.
marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
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