Healing Notes
by Maggie
Jaimeson
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BLURB:
Rachel Cullen grew up in Scotland with a fiddle in her hand from the
age of four. She couldn't imagine life as anything but a musician. When her
husband brought her to America she was immediately embraced by the Celtic and
Bluegrass communities. But after her divorce, Rachel's life is a mess.
A year of trying to prove to herself that she's woman enough for any
man, and then a vicious rape while on tour with the band, leaves Rachel
reeling. When she meets Noel Kershaw, an English teacher who is poetry in
motion, she is definitely attracted. But he has a young child and he's
suffering from his own divorce. The last thing Rachel needs in life is more
baggage.
First, Rachel must reconcile who she is, what she wants, and how to
get there. Maybe then she'll know how to be a part of the family she's always
wanted.
Excerpt:
As she reached for the handle, the door opened and a little
girl rushed out, maybe six or seven years old, with beautiful long blond hair
caught up in a blue denim bow. She ran
to a light blue sedan next to Rachel’s and giggled as she skipped through
puddles circling the car. Rachel couldn’t help but smile at the child’s
carefree innocence.
After three circles, the girl stopped at the back end of the
car, cocked her head and waved two fingers at her. “Hi.”
“Um, hi.” Rachel raised her hand and waved back. “Did you
forget somebody? Your mommy maybe?”
“Claire, I told you to stay close.”
At the sound of the tenor voice beside her, Rachel
started. A man three to four inches
taller than her had stepped out. In one hand he held several colorful ribbons
attached to a bright pink, heart-shaped helium balloon that read Happy
Birthday. He looked toward the car where the child was still giggling.
The little girl raced back. Skidding to a stop in front of
Rachel, they bumped and Rachel teetered slightly toward the wall.
“Careful there.” A weathered hand reached toward her and
wrapped around her elbow. His touch was softer than she expected, but her knees
still locked, ready to spring if she needed to move fast. He held her up with
one hand. Deep brown eyes, emphasized by his full head of short, wavy blonde
hair, looked at her then turned toward the girl.”
“Apologize, Claire. You almost knocked her over.”
“I’m sorry.” A small hand lifted to touch her other arm.
“That’s okay. Really.
I should have been paying more attention.” Rachel smiled and pointed to
the balloon. “Latha breith.”
“Excuse me?”
“Oh, I…” She had lapsed into Gaelic. Something she hadn’t done in public since
Kavan left her almost three years ago. “I said ‘Happy Birthday.’”
Maggie will award one
autographed cover flat to a randomly drawn commenter at each blog stop.
In addition, she will award a $25 gift card to either Amazon or
Barnes and Noble (winner's choice) as a grand prize to one randomly selected
commenter on this tour, and a $25 gift certificate to either Amazon or
Barnes and Noble (winner's choice) to a randomly drawn host. You must
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Carrie Ann, Thank you very much for taking the time to host by book on the Super Book Blast. This second book in the series is very special for me because of the topic of rape and recovery. After what happened to Rachel in the first book of the series it was absolutely imperative that she get her own happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear from your readers it there is an "issue" book with a romance they've read before that really touched them. If so what was it. I'm always looking for new books to read myself.
I'm looking forward to reading Healing Notes.
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Your book sounds really great. When I taught Art courses, I had a class once for disturbed children. I don't know if it helped them much, but they sure had a good time.
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Ingeborg and Joye, Thank you so much for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteJoye, God Bless You for teaching art AND for trying to help disturbed children. First I think Art is sooooo important in our world because it helps you to stretch your mind and to think outside the box. In terms of helping disturbed children, I've read some research about the positive impacts of Art on mental illness, so I suspect it did help. Even though you may not have seen an immediate reward, whatever the children were allowed to do had to be freeing in some way.
I can't wait to read this and the others in this series.
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This sounds interesting.
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The Grand Prize winner of the $25 gift card is Tore923. Congratulations Tore!
ReplyDeleteBecause I've had such a great time meeting everyone on this tour, I have decided to award autographed cover flats (one per person) to anyone who has commented during the Book Blast tour. If you wish to have one, please send an email to maggie at maggiejaimeson dot com with the name you would like with the autograph, and your mailing address. They must be sent through the post. If you do not want your name endorsed, in addition to the autograph, then please say so.
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