Christmas in July's meaning is simply to share joy and recreate the wonderful feeling of Christmastime.
My name is Sharon and I am taking over LoRee’s blog to share with you LoRee’s wonderful Christmas stories this July. Stories that will warm your heart as they have mine. Let’s go on an adventure for Christmastime joy, love and hope...
Pepper Rainwater has just bought the first real home she' s ever had, and she' s decorating and celebrating Christmas with everything she has. The neighbor' s miniature donkeys and meeting Foxx interrupt her life. Can she turn from all she' d been taught and trust strangers? Find Pepper’s story in “Christmas House.”
Continuing with Pepper’s story, she continues to thrive in newfound faith, blooming love, and her own Christmas house. But the appearance of her mother brings back all the ugliness of growing up in a storage unit. Can she face family issues from a new perspective and forgive her parents for the past? Journey to “Christmas in Garland” to read more.
In “A Cup of Christmas Kindness” we meet Violet Steele as she returns to her parents' home in small-town Nebraska to pay off school loans. But her first social activity is the celebration of life for a woman she'd dreamt would someday be her mother-in-law. Will Violet's deliberate holiday deeds lead to romance?
After her grandparents as forced to live apart through assisted living, and then die within nine days of each other, intrepid entrepreneur Calissa Ladd is devastated. She's always wanted to experience the same lifelong love modeled by her grandparents, but her heart isn't where it needs to be as she clings to the past for answers and then starts having vivid dreams of a long-ago time period. Let’s follow Carissa’s journey in “Hiding From Christmas.”
Blythe loves her job and doesn't need personal relationships, especially of the "love life" variety. Steeling herself from a recent heartbreak, Blythe focuses on furthering her successful career, but when her father needs surgery, Blythe returns home to help with the family auto shop. There, she comes face-to-face with the dreams of her past. Will “A Christmas Cardinal” bring a whole new life for Blythe?
She was looking for coffee and conversation. He was looking for a quiet place to write. What they found was a connection that would make this Christmas unforgettable. Hayley and Kameron’s story unfolds in “Christmas Trinkets."
Liam once approved of helping others, but not anymore. He lost his mother due to a crazed street person, and he's hardened his heart. Now a successful photographer, he’s returned to set up shop in his hometown--directly across the courtyard from his sister’s best friend. Will he find love in “Christmas ‘Couragement?”
On her way home for Christmas during a blizzard, college student Izzy hurdles down an embankment. Her worst nightmare is being trapped. Brock comes to her rescue, but after a night in the hospital, the roads are drifted shut and she can’t make it to her family home in the country. Izzy goes home with Brock and spends Christmas Eve with his family. Once the road clears, Brock gets Izzy home on Christmas Day but her car is totaled, and she needs a way back to college. Used to fending for herself, and safe now, Izzy balks at Brock’s offer to drive her. Does God have a plan for an enthusiastic independent goal-setter who avoids the college dating scene, and a nurturing do-gooder man? Find out in “Christmas Rescue Route.”
When Sloan Letheby left town, Dahlia Delisi drifted away from God andpoured her life into her store, The Blue Dahlia. Sloan Letheby's brush with death brought new meaning to his faith in God, and he needs to right old wrongs. However, there's a murder plot in the way of his reunion with Dahlia. Can he find a killer before it's too late? And can Dahlia accept him...and God, back into her life? “A Blessed Blue Christmas” will for sure warm your heart.
In “Christmas Phone Booth” cautious observer Nicasia is at the Wilber Hotel for a wedding. She is careful when it comes to small spaces due to an attack as a teen, but intrigued by the antique phone booth, she steps inside to investigate. A just man with a star, Logan grew up at the end of the nineteenth century in a very religious home. But his reverend father led two lives and left Logan believing there was something wrong with him. Each wants to forgive those who hurt them and put the past where it belongs, but neither knows how. Will they help one another?
I hope you enjoy these 'Christmas in July' stories LoRee has written over the years. Warming the heart and soul with characters who will become your friends, may they bring the magic of Christmas joy, love and hope to you always.