Closer to Christmas

We are closer to Christmas every day. If you go to stores now, you’ll start to see decorations for fall, but at places like Hobby Lobby, the trees are already up and the ornaments for sale.

It’s also closer every day to the release of Sleigh Bells Ring, a novella collection which I’ve coauthored along with authors Sandra Bricker, Lenora Worth, and Barbara Scott.

I’ve given Lenora the spotlight today along with her contribution to the collection, called Please Come Home For Christmas.

Her novella is about one of the four Tucker sisters who come home for one last Christmas together and decide what to do about the rundown  Kentucky horse farm they’ve inherited.

Amy is the oldest Tucker sister. She’s bitter and disillusioned after losing her husband to a horrible accident. Average height and curvy, she had dark blond-brownish hair and blue-green eyes. She is tough and stubborn and a hardworker. She loves her son Timothy. But she does not want to be back in Bluegrass Crossing.

Dan Wentworth, tall and clean-cut with tawny colored hair and golden brown tiger eyes, has his eyes set on the horse farm. He is ruthless in securing land for developmenting large estate-sized communities. Married once, he’s sworn off women. That is, until Amy Tucker walks into his life.

Please Come Home For Christmas 

In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas . . . and something fishy.

Her heart ought to be on the naughty list. Amy has hardly shown her son around the family horse farm or brushed a thoroughbred before she’s fraternizing with the enemy. It’s been a while since her husband died, since her heart felt this way.

But after real estate developer Dan Wentworth has been so cozy with her sisters about selling their newly inherited property, Amy can’t be sure if he’s warming up to her. Or merely warming her up to the idea of letting the family homestead get bulldozed for a housing development.

She doesn’t want to hurt her sisters, but the money from Dan’s proposal could go a long way in making single-motherhood merry and bright.

About Lenora

Lenora Worth has written over 45 books for three different publishers. Her first Love Inspired “The Wedding Quilt” won Affaire de Coeur’s Best Inspirational for 1997, and “Logan’s Child” won RT’s Best Love Inspired for 1998. Her suspense “Code of Honor” finaled in the American Christian Fiction Writers’ Carol Award and her “Body of Evidence” made the New York Times Bestseller list in Mass Market Paperbacks. With millions of books in print, Lenora continues to write for Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense and she recently sold three books to Harlequin’s SuperRomance, still writing as Lenora Worth. Lenora also wrote a weekly opinion column for the Shreveport Times and worked freelance for SB magazine. She has now turned to full-time fiction writing and enjoying adventures with her retired husband, Don. Married for 36 years, they have two grown children—Kaleb and Carly. Lenora enjoys writing, reading and shopping … especially shoe shopping.

Sleigh Bells Ring releases from Gilead Publishing on October 14 and is available for preorder here.

The individual titles include:

All I Want for Christmas by Sandra D. Bricker

Her Old Kentucky Home by Lynette Sowell

I’ll Be Home for Christmas by Barbara J. Scott

Please Come Home for Christmas by Lenora Worth

For more information about Gilead’s first round of titles, visit their website here.

Lynette Sowell (34 Posts)

Lynette Sowell is the award-winning author of over 15 titles for Barbour Publishing, Harlequin, and Abingdon Press. Lynette was born in Western Massachusetts in the shadow of the Berkshire Mountains, raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, but makes her home on the doorstep of the Texas hill country. She loves reading, cooking, watching movies, and is always up for a Texas road trip. When she's not writing fiction, she works as a reporter for her city newspaper and has a weekly column called My Front Porch.