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In this 12K short story, Los Angeles jazz club owner Dan Allport has been flirting with Tanya Diaz via text for months, ever since he met her that one day she was in town last fall. But she had to fly back to New Orleans, where she runs a center for troubled teens, and it seems so unlikely that they'll ever get to see one another again. But then on Christmas Eve, Tanya gets the chance to go see Dan. If she can make it through a storm up from the gulf, an unexpected adventure with two teenagers, and the unpredictable calamities of flaming rum punch, she just might get to do more than texting with Dan this Christmas.

Christmas at the Grand Hotel by Amie Denman and May Williams

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Sometimes the heart hits a hole in one.

Bethany Hinkle arrives at White Pine Island’s Grand Hotel for her sister’s wedding and to do a little environmental snooping. She snaps pictures of the hotel’s pristine golf course to ensure its compliance with EPA standards. Soon, she realizes that the course’s manager is as attractive as the course he so carefully protects.

Ned Phillips feels the weight of family expectations squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillips Family has owned and operated the Grand Hotel for three generations. For now, he manages the hotel’s golf course and makes plans for its future—plans that could be destroyed by Bethany’s spying. He gets close to the lovely environmentalist to watch for her next move until he gets too close to let her go.

What happens when you fall in love with your best friend just when it’s too late?

All her life, Ellen Phillips has loved working for her family’s Grand Hotel on White Pine Island. Flying the hotel’s airplane and piloting the island ferryboat while knowing someday she will inherit the luxurious resort is a fairy tale existence she has no desire to change. She’s always loved Pete McCormack, too. After all, he’s her best friend, confidante, and playmate. Until she suddenly sees him in a different light just before Christmas.

Pete McCormack has made sacrifices for his family’s golf cart rental business on the island, choosing to stay home and run it instead of pursuing his dream of his own career on the mainland. When his parents announce their plans to sell the business so Pete can leave the island, he has to choose between the future he thought he always wanted and his newfound love for the woman he would be leaving behind.

Blue Bottle Beach by Amie Denman

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There’s no better place for a bachelorette party than Key West, Florida. Jackie and her accountant friends call in sick and escape wintry Chicago to celebrate in the sunshine, but an unexpected twist breaks up the party. On her own for a weekend in America’s least inhibited city, Jackie meets a man who makes her heart do a tropical dance. Mitchell is handsome, charming, and knows just where to touch her. If he looks a little familiar, the thought is quickly lost on the hot sands. Mitchell finds Jackie equally irresistible as he romances her on Blue Bottle Beach, but he has no idea she should be in her cubicle in Chicago balancing the books for one of his many companies. What will happen when Mitchell and Jackie eventually look past their attraction to discover he’s her boss? Will a hot weekend in Key West still sizzle in wintry Chicago at the corporate Christmas party?

HOW TO GET A RAISE!: Seven Steps to a Higher Paycheck by Gary Brose

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A book written for employees who are anxious to make more money. It explains, in simple easy-to- understand terms, seven sure steps to getting noticed and getting a raise from your boss. Written by Gary Brose, an entrepreneur who has owned over a dozen companies but also who worked for dozens more...so he has seen both sides of the situation.

Gary walks the reader through understanding the boss's mindset and then doing those things that will get you noticed and recognized. If you follow most or all of the steps in this book and fail to get a raise, a series of raises or a promotion (and more money), then you are working for the wrong person. Better to find that out now before you spend years in futile exercise. Gary believes that many employees work hard and fail to get recognized for it. They don't get raises because they are not doing anything to make themselves stand out and get the boss's attention. Gary shows how to do that easily and start making more money in a very short period of time.

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Get a Look Into Montana Maverick by Debra Salonen

Do you enjoy reading books that feature older heroes and heroines? I do. There’s something to be said for life experience. For instance, in Montana Maverick, my heroine is on sabbatical from her teaching position to write a novel. She’s holed up in her mountain cabin through the holidays. She’s smart, well provisioned and prepared. Her years of experience comes in handy when the hero’s helicopter crashes on the mountain behind her on Christmas Eve.

Here's a little snippet written in the point of view of my hero's grandson:

JJ curled in a ball in the co-pilot seat, listening to the squeaks and moans and popping sounds as the helicopter settled into its death.

A lot noisier than Mom.

Her last sounds--the one time he snuck in to see her at the end--were low, ugly gasps that came from deep in her chest, like a trapped animal trying to crawl out. He would have done anything to make it stop, but everyone--the doctors, Grandpa, even, God--had given up trying to help her.

A few hours later she died.

Cancer.

Mom's death wasn't his fault, but this was.

He made a fist and pressed it to his gut to keep from throwing up.

He'd nearly killed them all.

Maybe I did.

They'd crash landed in the middle of nowhere in a freaking blizzard. They'd probably freeze to death before help arrived.

He leaned sideways to look into the back seat.

Bravo was strapped in his seat, crying. His nose a snotty mess, like usual. The kid cried more often than Annie, who was a girl.

JJ got to his knees so he could check on Mystic. He'd die if Mystic was dead. His mother gave her life for that baby. Mom had refused any sort of cancer treatment for fear it would hurt her baby. Mystic River Landry. Mom had the name picked out before the doctor confirmed the baby was a girl.

If Mystic died so soon after Mom, JJ would be glad to freeze to death. At least he wouldn't have to live with that guilt, too.

"You okay, buddy?" Hank asked in the pilot's seat beside him. Hank. To the little ones he was Grandpa, but JJ used his given name because that's how Mom always addressed her father.

JJ swallowed hard to keep from crying. He had to man up.

Be brave, my love. I'm counting on you to keep it together for the sake of the little ones, Mom said before she got bad.

"Yeah. I'm okay. But, your bird..." Hank always called the helicopter a bird. The thing even had a name, but JJ couldn't remember it. "I...I'm sorry."

Hank, who appeared to be concentrating hard on assessing their situation, gave JJ a questioning look. "Sorry for wha...? No," his grandfather said sternly, his deep voice going hard and serious. "This is not your fault, JJ. Something mechanical gave out. I heard a pop right before the rotor went wonky.

"Could have been from the cold, the snow, structural fatigue, who knows? But whatever the cause, you are not to blame. Are we clear on that?"

JJ wanted to believe him, but JJ had been the one holding the stick when the popping noise happened. Hank had given him the controls so he could reach behind them to keep Mystic from choking to death. Annie and Bravo had been crying so loudly JJ thought his ears would bleed. He'd held the stick with all his might and tried to pretend the whole thing was a video game.

But what happened next wasn't pretend. The helicopter lurched and bucked like a living beast. His hold slipped. The bird tilted sideways--only for a second until he got it straightened out again--but that's when the bad sound happened. The helo cried out as if he'd shot it. The moaning and groaning and vibration seemed to move through his body as they fell.

He'd never been more scared in his entire life. He'd prayed to God, his dead mother and the dead father he barely remembered. He prayed hard. And, it looked like his prayers were answered.

They were still alive, right?

A gust of wind hit the helicopter--Betsy, he thought, that was the bird's name--rocking it enough to release a fine white mist of snow inside their shelter.

He tried to see into the blackness beyond the frosty plastic window, but there was nothing. Just a black snowy void.

His prayers might have saved them, but for how long?

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Thanksgiving is Still a Holiday by Debra Salonen

Thanksgiving is still a holiday

I was cleaning out a storage room the other day and ran across some long-ago writings from 1988, including a complaint that Christmas was putting the squeeze on Thanksgiving—the forgotten holiday. In my opinion, it’s only gotten worse since then, but Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday.

This year, my son is hosting. I love passing the gauntlet to the next generation, and I can’t wait to try out some new recipes to go with our old favorites.

Here’s a snippet from my book BLACK HILLS NATIVE SON. It mentions a recipe I’m going to try this year:  CRANBERRIES JALEPEÑO. (But we’re still eating turkey, not venison. ;-) )

She opened the door.

“Happy Thanksgiving,” they shouted in far from perfect harmony. Between them rested a large ice chest and they each carried a grocery bag in one arm.

“We brought dinner,” Damien said, a mischievous grin on his handsome face.

Char felt so many conflicting emotions she couldn’t keep them straight. Shock, surprise, hope, love. And fear. She’d let herself believe in this possibility before.

“What’s going on?”

Eli set his bag on the cooler and removed his gloves. “I wanted to call, but I got voted down. It was three to one in favor of surprise.”

Three?

“We spent the night with Uncle Joseph and his girlfriend, Mae,” Damien explained.

“She lives near Sturgis, remember?” Eli asked. “I was headed there and wound up here.”

She remembered their first encounter all too well. She’d relived that wild, impulsive kiss about a thousand times in her mind.

“Okay. So…you were in Sturgis and suddenly decided to surprise me with a Thanksgiving dinner?” She pointed at the cooler. “If there’s a turkey in there, I hope one of you knows how to cook it.”

Damien juggled the bag in his arms. “Naw. It’s a venison roast. Already cooked. Joseph said it was bad manners for Lakota men to go visiting without bringing a gift of food—preferably meat. We got up at dawn to start the coals and do a little prayer ceremony. Wild, huh?”

“At least we didn’t have to kill and dress the deer,” Eli said. “My bow skills are a little rusty. Not to mention the fact that I don’t have a license,” he added. To Char he said, “Can we come inside. It’s cold out here.”

Char stepped back to let them in.

“Cool place,” Damien said. “I like the teepee.”

She was so overcome by emotion she had to clear her throat twice to be able to speak. “Thanks.”

“You’re not working, are you?” Eli asked. “We were going to drive around back when we noticed your lights on.”

She locked the door behind them. The aroma of roasted meat filled the air, making her mouth water. “I was on the Web cam with my Aunt Pam. She told me the strangest thing. I—”

Eli exchanged a quick look with Damien before breaking in. “Sorry to interrupt but Joe wrote out specific instructions about how to finish cooking everything. Can we talk while we take this stuff next door?”

She reached for the bag Eli carried. “Sure. Of course.” She spotted two bottles of wine wedged between several plastic containers and a loaf of bread.

“Awesome spears,” Damien exclaimed as they wound through the displays. “They could do some damage.”

Char stifled a grin. “I’ll introduce you to the artist who carves them. How’s your hand, by the way? No lingering problems with your fine motor skills?”

“I’m better than a hundred percent. In fact, I’m two hundred percent. Unfortunately, some people don’t believe that. Some people won’t let me drive until I get written clearance from a doctor. Can you believe it?”

The two men argued about law versus common sense and personal liberty the entire time it took to unpack the cooler and the bags. Char loved every minute of the quick-witted, good-natured exchange. She wondered if this was the way real families were supposed to act.

“So, Char,” Eli said, handing her the last of the cold stuff to put away while Damien slid the roast into the oven and closed the door. “We wanted to—”

“Wait. Are these cranberries?” she asked, cracking the lid on the small plastic container.

“Yes, but they’re made with chipotle peppers. Mae says the recipe is killer with venison.”

Char looked at Damien. “Interesting. Learn something new every day.”

Since I’m not a fan of chipotle, here’s my version of that recipe:

Cranberries Jalapeño

Ingredients:

12 ounce bag of fresh cranberries (rinsed and sorted)

½ C cranberry juice

½ C sugar

1-2 fresh jalapeño peppers, depending on desire heat level (I cook it whole then pull out when soft to remove seeds and chop)

sea salt to taste

Directions:

Place all ingredients in saucepan. Cover and cook over medium heat until the cranberries begin to burst. Remove peppers. Let rest until cool enough to cut. Remove seeds, mince. Add back into the cranberries. Stir to mix. Add desired salt to taste.

Serve warm.

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy reading.

Deb