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Gumbo Weather: A Bijou Bayou Christmas Novella Colorado sports reporter, Noel Winters heads to Louisiana after finding love letters in her deceased mother’s belongings. When her car breaks down near Bijou Bayou, a handsome, struggling pitcher and part-time mechanic comes to her rescue by fixing her car, and offering to help her find her father. Only problem? As her alias, Micki Barrett, Noel wrote an article criticizing Justin Gravois's big league debut. Now she’s fallen for him, can she ever find the courage to tell him the truth? Justin Gravois, professional pitcher, wanted to make his uncle proud. When he finally got his shot, his dream turned into a nightmare. It didn’t help that sports reporter, Micki Barrett, wrote such terrible things about him. Now, Justin wants to forget about the past and move forward to next season. When he falls in love with Noel he wonders if she’s an answer to his prayer. Excerpt An hour later after visiting with several cousins he hadn...

Book Blurb: Louisiana Chef Leona Buquet agrees to cook for CG Fleming Jr, movie producer at his mountain lodge in the Colorado Mountains during the Christmas holiday. When Leona meets handsome Cameron, CG's son, she is taken by his striking good looks and warm personality, but with the glamorous actress, Marissa Madison, clamoring for his attention will he even notice Leona? Cameron struggles with being in a career he hates only to please his father. When he meets Leona he feels he's known her all his life. He wants an opportunity to get to know her, but she keeps avoiding him. When they become stranded in a hunter's cabin, will she lower her guard and open her heart to Cameron? Buy Link How we celebrate Christmas? Because we live so far away from family and in high elevation (6500’) travel is not always an option for us. We we do travel, we either visit my family in Louisiana or my husband’s family in Kansas. When we visit my family, we meet at my ...

Blurb : Love: purer than Colorado snow, deeper than a Louisiana bayou.  The Colorado Rockies have always been home to journalist Kelly Shepherd, but after the death of her father, and facing her first Christmas alone, she accepts an assignment that leads her deep into Louisiana’s Cajun country.  Since his wife’s death, Denny Labouve has focused his attention on his ten-year-old daughter and the family business, but Kelly sparks the dying embers of his heart even as a Christmas cold front moves through his beloved Cajun country.  Will Denny and Kelly be able to trust God to bridge the span between the Colorado Rockies and the Louisiana bayou? Review: The first thing you notice are the chapter titles aren't in English, but Cajun. Then the book plunges you into the south, a land totally unfamiliar to me, yet the descriptions are so vivid that after a couple of pages, that didn’t matter. I learned about the culture and customs at the same time Kel...