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#Giveaway Excerpt A Cold Creek Christmas Story by RaeAnne Thayne @raeannethayne @HarlequinBooks 12.21

December 13, 2015 By Mary

a cold creek christmas

  • Paperback
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0263251942
  • ISBN-13: 978-0263251944

Sparkle In The Snow Leads To So Much More 

Celeste Nichols has always preferred to keep to herself in her hometown of Pine Gulch, Idaho…until she becomes an instant celebrity! When one of her children’s stories becomes a major success, she’s suddenly the talk of the town. Celeste should be gloriously happy…but something, someone, special is still missing from her life. Could the return of her childhood crush be the answer?

Flynn Delaney has moved back home for his daughter’s sake. Yet all the millionaire’s resources can’t help the little girl heal from the tragic loss of her mother. Shy librarian Celeste and her stories do hold some indefinable magic, though. Flynn came home looking for support—can he find that, and true love, in the one who got away?

 

 

 


EXCERPT

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

If she didn’t have thirty children showing up in the next half hour, Celeste Nichols would have been tempted to climb into her little SUV, pull out of the Pine Gulch library parking lot and just keep on driving.

She shifted the blasted endlessly ringing cell phone to the crook of her shoulder while she sorted through the books scattered across her cubicle in the offices of the library to find what she would be reading for story hour.

“I told you earlier in the week, I’m not ready to make a decision about this yet.”

Joan Manning, her and Hope’s long-suffering literary agent, gave a low, frustrated sound of disapproval. “We can’t hold them off much longer. We’ve already stalled for two weeks. They want to start production right after the holidays, and they can’t do that without signatures from you and Hope.”

Celeste gazed down at a copy of Dr. Seuss’s perennial holiday favorite, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She had a feeling she was the one being the Grinch here. Hope was completely on board with the extraordinary offer one of the leading animation companies had made for movie rights to their book, Sparkle and the Magic Snowball.

Celeste was the one who couldn’t quite be comfortable with the idea of someone else taking control of her words, her creation, and turning Sparkle into an animated movie, complete with the attendant merchandising and sublicensing. A fast-food chain was already talking about making a toy for its kids’ meals, for crying out loud.

The whole journey of the past twelve months seemed like a bizarre, surreal, completely unbelievable dream.

A year ago she had known exactly who she was—an unassuming children’s librarian in the small town of Pine Gulch, Idaho, in the western shadow of the Teton Mountain Range.

Now, to her immense shock, she was a celebrated author about to see the release of her second children’s book with several more scheduled in the next few years. Along with that had come things she had never imagined when she’d been writing little stories for her niece and nephew—she had a website, a publicist, a literary agent.

Her quiet, safe world seemed to be spinning out of her control, and this movie deal was the prime example.

“A few more days, Celeste,” Joan pushed. “You can’t keep stalling. You have to make a decision. Hollywood has a short attention span and an even shorter supply of patience. Do you want your story made into a movie or not?”

She liked Joan very much, as brash and abrupt as the woman could be, but everything with her was an emergency and had to be decided right now. Pressure pains stabbed with little forks behind her eyes and her shoulders felt as if someone had jammed them in a vice and was cranking down hard.

“I know. I just need to be sure this is the right choice for Sparkle.”

“Sparkle is a fictional character. You need to be sure it’s the right choice for you and for your sister. We’ve been going over this for weeks. I don’t know what else I can say to convince you this is the best deal you’re going to get.”

“I know that. You’ve done a great job with the negotiations. I just need…a little more time.”

“A few days,” Joan said, her voice clipped with frustration. “That’s all, then I have to give them some kind of an answer.”

“I know. Thank you. I’ll get back with you tomorrow or the day after.”

“Just remember, most people would see this as a dream come true.”

Apparently, she wasn’t most people. After they said their goodbyes, Celeste set her cell phone back on the desk, again fighting the urge to climb into her SUV and keep on driving.

That was her sister Hope’s way, to wander from place to place as they had done in their itinerant childhood. Celeste was different. She liked security, consistency.

Normalcy.

 

 

Biography

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne finds inspiration in the beautiful northern Utah mountains where she lives with her family. Her books have won numerous honors, including four RITA Award nominations from Romance Writers of America and a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews magazine. RaeAnne loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her website at www.raeannethayne.com.

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Comments

  1. Kathy Heare watts says

    December 13, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Favorite Christmas treat, soft molasses cookies.

  2. cheryl s says

    December 14, 2015 at 5:06 am

    my favorite holiday treat is homemade chocolate chip cookies

  3. Nancy says

    December 14, 2015 at 6:31 am

    Xmas cookies…gingerbread, Spritz and sugar.

  4. kim amundsen says

    December 14, 2015 at 7:32 am

    Hersheys’ hugs are a treat for me this time of year.

  5. Linda Kish says

    December 14, 2015 at 8:32 am

    I like pecan pie.

  6. angela smith says

    December 14, 2015 at 8:35 am

    pecan pie and sugar cookies

  7. Rita Wray says

    December 14, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Gingerbread cookies

  8. Lu Worley says

    December 14, 2015 at 11:27 am

    Carrot pudding, pumpkin anything and pies!

  9. Diane Sallans says

    December 14, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Sweetheart (aka Thumbprint) cookies with raspberry jam

  10. Nancy Jones says

    December 14, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Peanut butter fudge.

  11. BookLady says

    December 14, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    Homemade Peanut Butter Blossoms

  12. Carol L says

    December 15, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    My grandmotheer’s Italian cookies that are only made duing the holidays. Thanks for the giveaway.
    Carol L

  13. bn100 says

    December 15, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    pie

  14. missy ellis says

    December 15, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    no bake cookies

  15. Karen M. says

    December 17, 2015 at 10:42 am

    My favorite holiday treats are pumpkin pie and egg nog.

  16. Nicole The Reading Rebel says

    December 17, 2015 at 11:44 am

    My favorite holiday treat is my sugar cookies and my grandma’s fudge

  17. holdenj says

    December 18, 2015 at 6:12 am

    I also like those peanut butter cookie bites with the miniature peanut butter cups in the middle of them…

  18. Deanne Patterson says

    December 19, 2015 at 10:32 am

    My favorite holiday treat is peanut butter blossoms which I would love to eat while reading Cold Creek Christmas by RaeAnne Thayne.

  19. Richard Brandt says

    December 19, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    I’m going with pumpkin pie this time.

  20. Diane Elizabeth says

    December 20, 2015 at 7:19 am

    Cut out sugar cookies are my favorite. I like making them almost as much as I like eating them.

  21. Heike says

    December 21, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for this great chance!

  22. Gina says

    December 21, 2015 at 10:21 pm

    Aside from pretty much any of mom’s baked goods, those Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes are my weakness. The sugar crystals make the difference!

  23. Linda Herold says

    December 21, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    My favorite holiday treat is Sees Candy!! Thanks for the chance to win this book. I have heard good things about it and I like the author. Happy holidays!!

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