Welcome back. We’re flirting with summer here, with temperatures expected in the low 70’s F. It won’t last, but it’s nice while it’s here. I hope the truly nasty weather everyone experienced at the end of March and the beginning of April is well and truly gone.
Today is dedicated to the letter L which stands for love. There are several different kinds of love. Love of country which we call patriotism, love for our neighbors and those around us, which is Agape love, familial love which includes our family–parents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. and romantic love which is the one that draws us to a specific person, the one we want to spend the rest of our lives with, raise families together, and includes erotic love, which is more than sex for the sake of sex.
As a romance writer, love is my bread and butter. It’s the one element embedded in every one of my novels, regardless of sub-genre. While I don’t devote a great deal of my writing to sex, I’ll include it IF it is necessary to the story and moves the plot along. I’m a prude. I’ll say it front and center, so I have trouble with strangers meeting and jumping right into bed. I need some emotional foreplay before I can get to that scene. Sex for the sake of sex just doesn’t do it for me.
I’ve written a number of books that have dealt with familiar love, where children or brothers and sisters are an element of the greater love story. For example, in His Christmas Family a single mother puts it all on the line for her children. Here’s the blurb.
Since losing his wife, children, and parents six years ago to a drunk driver, Lee Ostler stopped celebrating the holidays, especially Christmas. But he isn’t a modern-day Scrooge by any means. Because his parents would’ve wanted it, he does his duty by his employees at Ostler Construction, the Payton Falls community, and his sister and her family, but that’s it.
When Sonia has to leave the country for a few weeks before Christmas, she begs him to watch the twins for her. Even if it means, parades, pageants, and fairs, how can he refuse? But things get complicated when the twins accidentally injure one of his employees, who turns out to be the shy girl he admired years ago in high school.
Life has dealt Jennifer Wilson a lot of blows, but this year, the widowed mother of four has hit rock bottom. How will she give her children a magical Christmas when the cupboard’s bare, her wallet’s empty, she can’t work, and may well lose the roof over their heads? She needs a miracle, and if he happens to be her boss and the former high school quarterback, she was too terrified to even speak to back then, how can she say no?
Can Christmas magic bring two broken souls together?
In Forever in my Heart, I deal with the pain of a child growing up feeling unloved as well as the devastation that comes when siblings lose one of their own. Here’s that blurb.
All Callista Hayworth has ever wanted was to be loved. Callie’s heart was crushed six years ago when she walked in on her twin sister in the arms of her fiancé. She fled Timberton and cut all ties with the last member of her family. She’s rebuilt her life, but some things can never be fixed. When she learns of the tragic accident that has orphaned her infant nieces, she sets aside her anger and returns to the scene of her greatest heartache. What she doesn’t expect is her reaction to the twins’ uncle and his proposition.
Michael Branscomb swore off women years ago, after the woman he loved left him for his best friend. A deathbed promise to his twin brother has to be honored. The last thing the confirmed bachelor wants or needs is a wife and children, but you don’t always get what you want. He’ll do almost anything for his twin, but can he marry a stranger?
When he meets Callie, commonsense goes out the window, and he proposes a marriage of convenience, offering each of them an end to loneliness and a promise at the future they want.
Will the spirit of Christmas convince Callie to give him a chance, especially when there’s a Grinch in the works determined to see the past repeat itself?
I have a series of books dedicated specifically to romantic love. My All for Love series. Falling in love isn’t always easy, and for the couples in these books, the road to happiness is often complicated and filled with misunderstanding that can last days, weeks, months, years, or even decades. But in the end, love triumphs.
The series includes Just for the Weekend Wedding Bell Blues Royal Flush The Blue Dragon Forever and Always Same Time Next Year The Trouble with Eden The Regal Rose and Finding Melinda
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Come back tomorrow when I’ll give you a Did You Know? for the letter M. Enjoy your day.
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