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My True Love Gave To Me - 2005 American Christian Fiction Writers' Book of the Year - Novella Category --- Skipping Christmas meets RV in this funny, heartwarming inspirational novella. Penny Lassiter has a comfortable holiday routine with her family and friends--until her husband gets laid off from work and seemingly undergoes a personality transplant. When he comes home with a travel atlas and the keys to a borrowed RV, he turns her cookie-cutter Christmas plans into perfect chaos. She has no choice but to buckle herself and the kids in for a crazy cross-country ride that defies all of her expectations and redefines her priorities in a way she has never imagined.
SHORT EXCERPT: "I gritted my teeth and shifted the cardboard box against the spindly pull-down attic ladder. Whoever invented these contraptions obviously hadn't considered that people would be going up and down the narrow steps with their arms full.
Of course, I could be transferring my aggravation to some nameless inventor instead of placing the blame where it belonged - squarely on the shoulders of my beloved husband and his recent mysterious attitude.
"The - " I pressed the side of my face against the cardboard, clutching my burden tightly, in spite of the dust particles crawling up my nose. " - very - " I lowered one foot, tapping air until I found the next step. It would be a disaster to fall with this box. " - idea!" I jumped off the last step and landed with a thud, gripping my priceless cargo.
For sixteen years, Thanksgiving afternoon at the Lassiters had meant one thing - putting up the Christmas tree.
I set the old box carefully on the hardwood floor in the den and stared at the words I'd written the year Phillip and I had married - Fragile: Christmas Ornaments. On the corner of the box, where I always denoted our storage containers as Summer or Winter or Open When Amanda Turns Ten, I had printed Thanksgiving Day. Even then, at the ripe old age of twenty, I never left anything to chance. Spell it out. No beating around the bush.
No doubt about it, today was the day.
So why had my husband, who loved Christmas as much as I did, announced cryptically at breakfast that instead of putting up the tree this afternoon he had something else planned? Granted, he'd been acting strange for at least a week, but his proclamation had thrown my whole day off kilter. And then, he'd driven off after lunch to take his parents home without another word about it."
Review:
I loved this whole book including the titles of the twelve chapters which can be sung to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." I highly recommend buying this hilarious and heartwarming book to get you in the spirit of the true meaning of Christmas." ~ Amazon Reviewer, Rose McCauley
About the Author:
Award-winning Arkansas author Christine Lynxwiler lives with her husband and two daughters in the beautiful Ozark mountains. She has been writing toward publication since 1997 and sold her first story in 2001 to Barbour Publishing. Since then she's written sixteen Christian romance novels and novellas including the best-selling Arkansas, which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Christine is a four-time winner of the prestigious American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award.
OTHER $2.99 KINDLE BOOKS BY CHRISTINE LYNXWILER:
Home for the Holidays - a Christmas Novella - http://amzn.com/B00A43ZQI4
Forever Christmas - http://amzn.com/B009RPL51W
Sleuthing Sisters Mysteries (Christine Lynxwiler with Jan Reynolds & Sandy Gaskin)
Book 1 - Death on a Deadline - http://amzn.com/B007TGGM9Q
Book 2 - Drop Dead Diva - http://amzn.com/B007YXBOBA
Book 3 - Down Home & Deadly - http://amzn.com/B008VZ4WUK
Genre: Inspirational
SHORT EXCERPT: "I gritted my teeth and shifted the cardboard box against the spindly pull-down attic ladder. Whoever invented these contraptions obviously hadn't considered that people would be going up and down the narrow steps with their arms full.
Of course, I could be transferring my aggravation to some nameless inventor instead of placing the blame where it belonged - squarely on the shoulders of my beloved husband and his recent mysterious attitude.
"The - " I pressed the side of my face against the cardboard, clutching my burden tightly, in spite of the dust particles crawling up my nose. " - very - " I lowered one foot, tapping air until I found the next step. It would be a disaster to fall with this box. " - idea!" I jumped off the last step and landed with a thud, gripping my priceless cargo.
For sixteen years, Thanksgiving afternoon at the Lassiters had meant one thing - putting up the Christmas tree.
I set the old box carefully on the hardwood floor in the den and stared at the words I'd written the year Phillip and I had married - Fragile: Christmas Ornaments. On the corner of the box, where I always denoted our storage containers as Summer or Winter or Open When Amanda Turns Ten, I had printed Thanksgiving Day. Even then, at the ripe old age of twenty, I never left anything to chance. Spell it out. No beating around the bush.
No doubt about it, today was the day.
So why had my husband, who loved Christmas as much as I did, announced cryptically at breakfast that instead of putting up the tree this afternoon he had something else planned? Granted, he'd been acting strange for at least a week, but his proclamation had thrown my whole day off kilter. And then, he'd driven off after lunch to take his parents home without another word about it."
Review:
I loved this whole book including the titles of the twelve chapters which can be sung to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." I highly recommend buying this hilarious and heartwarming book to get you in the spirit of the true meaning of Christmas." ~ Amazon Reviewer, Rose McCauley
About the Author:
Award-winning Arkansas author Christine Lynxwiler lives with her husband and two daughters in the beautiful Ozark mountains. She has been writing toward publication since 1997 and sold her first story in 2001 to Barbour Publishing. Since then she's written sixteen Christian romance novels and novellas including the best-selling Arkansas, which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Christine is a four-time winner of the prestigious American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award.
OTHER $2.99 KINDLE BOOKS BY CHRISTINE LYNXWILER:
Home for the Holidays - a Christmas Novella - http://amzn.com/B00A43ZQI4
Forever Christmas - http://amzn.com/B009RPL51W
Sleuthing Sisters Mysteries (Christine Lynxwiler with Jan Reynolds & Sandy Gaskin)
Book 1 - Death on a Deadline - http://amzn.com/B007TGGM9Q
Book 2 - Drop Dead Diva - http://amzn.com/B007YXBOBA
Book 3 - Down Home & Deadly - http://amzn.com/B008VZ4WUK
Genre: Inspirational
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