By
Deanne Wilsted
BLURB:
“I did what?”
Twenty-eight year old Gabriella Bessu is St. Therese’s
meticulous wedding ceremony coordinator. So the fact that she has mistakenly
signed her newest couple up for an annulment, rather than a wedding, sends her
Catholic guilt into overdrive.
But who can blame her? The groom is gorgeous and his two
kids tug at Gabriella’s heart in a way that overcomes all her best intentions.
Before long she’s in over her head, fixing her mixed-up plans and helping the
children and dad come to terms with their haunting grief for the mother and
wife they lost years earlier.
Can Gabriella untangle her own fears and accept the messy
life that God has handed them?
EXCERPT:
“Umm, Gabriella,” Chloe said,
“I don’t think that’s the plumber. It sounds like . . .”
The last thing Ryan had
expected to see when he’d entered the cottage was Gabriella flat on her back in
a puddle of water, inspecting the rear of the toilet. Chloe was holding a
bucket and a sopping wet towel, and Peter was nowhere to be seen.
“Hi, Chloe,” he said quickly.
“Where’s Peter?”
“Dad!” Peter came flying from
another room and flung himself into Ryan’s arms.
“RYAN?” Gabriella yelled and
quickly sat up. The thump of her head smacking the toilet bowl echoed around
the tiny room.
“Ow,” she cried. “Damn it! Ow,
ow, ow.”
Ryan grimaced. Gabriella sat on
the wet floor, near tears, rubbing at the welt already forming on her forehead.
“I’m sorry,” she said, clearly
at the end of her rope. “I can’t believe I said that in front of the kids. It’s
just, everything has gone wrong today.”
She hung her head in her lap
and began to cry for real.
Ryan had to hold back a smile.
She looked so much like a wet cat. And, to top it off, she had yet to hear how
wrong things had really gone with the day.
“Come on, now. It’s not that
bad,” he finally said. “We’ll get it all fixed. Don’t worry.”
Chloe’s face lit up with an expression he hadn’t seen in
years. For a few moments at least he was back to being her superhero dad.
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
With an English teacher for a mom, DEANNE WILSTED, grew up
reciting conjugation instead of nursery rhymes. Now, forty years later, she's
sharing that special skill through her writing and her mothering. Her first
book, a contemporary romance called BETTING JESSICA, was released
October 2011. Her second Novel, UNTANGLING
THE KNOT, is due out in February 2013 from Soul Mate Publishing.
She is currently marketing her third book for publication and writing her fourth,
fifth and sixth while blogging about the crazy stuff she overhears while
writing.
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LINKS:
Author Follow Links –
@dwilsted - https://twitter.com/dwilsted
Goodreads author
page- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5294824.Deanne_Wilsted
Amazon author page - http://amzn.com/e/B005YHFBQ2
2 comments:
Hi Amy, thanks so much for hosting me on your site. I'm looking forward to hearing your readers comments, so I'll check back and reply.
In the wanted to say a huge thanks for sharing the journey.
Cheers,
Deanne
I'm happy to oblige and I apologize for the delay.
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