What do you enjoy more at this time of the year than curling up with a good book and a plate of yummy candy?
To help with that we have Starla Kaye joining us with her new book, Trusting Love Again and a family Christmas
Recipe.
Let’s
start with her Christmas recipe.
This
is a favorite family recipe started by my mother maybe thirty years ago. We all
love it because it is so colorful and easy to make. Mainly we keep on making it
out of memory of our mother.
Cathedral Windows – Candy
Melt
6 oz. butterscotchs and 2 T. margarine in pan. Add 1 egg. Let cool.
Fold
in 3 c. colored mini marshmallows and ½ c. chopped nuts (optional).Put in 12 x 9 inch pan coated with margarine. Sprinkle 1 c. flaked coconut on top.
Refrigerate. Cut into squares to serve.
Next is that book: It's Trusting Love Again by Starla Kaye
Blurb for Trusting Love Again
After
an abusive marriage and an ugly divorce, Toni needs to rebuild her
self-confidence and start a new life in her hometown. Going home again and
confronting people she’d hurt when she’d left is never easy. She’d hung onto
the idea of buying a long-abandoned old house and remodeling it to help her
recover. But a man from her past has recently purchased it for his business.
That’s her emotional breaking point and she does something reckless. Now she
must pay the legal consequences of her foolish actions…by working for him.
All
he wants is to focus on his work…
Chad’s
job as a lawyer working to protect the rights of the abused elderly consumes
his time and energy. It cost him his marriage and an aborted child he hadn’t
known about. Now he works harder, guards his bruised heart. Yet the return of
someone he’d held secret feelings for comes back to town. She upsets his world,
starting with minor destruction of his business property and causing him minor
injury. He shouldn’t become involved in helping this troubled woman, yet he
can’t keep from doing so.
Two
heart-damaged people have trouble trusting love again.
Excerpt from Trusting Love Again
“I feel like such a wimp, letting him get to
me again.” She moved away and walked over to slump down on the sofa. “All it
took was hearing his voice.”
Chad
closed the door and took a calming second before he faced her. “You’re not a
wimp. That scumbag should be locked up for what he did to you.”
The
color had returned to her face once more and she gave him a fragile smile.
“I’ve come to realize that everything that happened wasn’t all his fault.”
He
blinked at her. “What?”
She
shrugged out of her coat and let it fall behind her. “I allowed it to happen,
and not just because of the whole love, honor, and obey stuff. I was blinded by
his charm, and his ease at throwing me apologies is not an excuse. I saw
through them. But I wanted to believe in the magic of love too much. I wanted
him to be the Prince Charming of my dreams. He wasn’t. He’d never been that,
not even when we started dating. I was just too determined to make him into
it.”
“You
always were a romantic.” He remembered how much she’d liked the Disney movies,
especially the ones with happy endings for one couple or another. Ted had done
his best to avoid them. Beauty and the Beast had been her favorite; The Little
Mermaid was another one Chad knew she’d watched over and over. To his friend’s
disbelief, he had sat with her in the Thornton family room and watched both of
them one day when she’d been miserable with the chicken pox. She’d been ten, he
fifteen. He’d taken a lot of ribbing from Ted for doing it, but he’d done it
anyway. Did she even remember that time?
She
gave him an amused smile. “I don’t watch Disney movies anymore. Well, not like
I used to do.”
He
glanced at the coffee table and the thick paperback lying on top, a romance
novel. After what she’d been through, it surprised him. “I would have expected
you’d be reading a murder mystery or something dark.”
She
shrugged. “I still enjoy a good happy ending, particularly a story that pulls
my heart strings. Just because there isn’t such a thing in my life, doesn’t
mean I don’t want it for others.”
He
understood why she felt that way, but it bothered him. “You shouldn’t give up,
Antoinette. Give yourself some time. Don’t rule out having something special
because of one jerk.”
Buy Links
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trusting-love-again-starla-kaye/1122924735?ean=2940156674237
Starla Kaye wears
many hats professionally and as a writer. She is the community coordinator for
a Midwestern accounting firm, a gerontologist who volunteers with an active
group of senior adults, a mentor/teacher of writing, and a multi-published
author. She dabbles in writing romances of many sub-genres: contemporary,
historical Western, medieval, sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, and Regency. To date
she has published 20 novels, 39 novellas, 8 anthologies, 18 short stories, and
3 audio books. You can learn more about her work at http://starlakaye.com
You
can also find her at Twitter: https://twitter.com/starla_kaye
Pinterest:
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Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5494986-starla-kaye
Authors Den Page: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=151725
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Book List(s) http://starlakaye.com/my-books/my-complete-book-list/
Thanks
for joining us, Starla and sharing your new book, and that wonderful Christmas candy recipe.
It really is hard to start over when you've been put down or dealt with a horrible marriage and divorce. Sounds like a great read!
ReplyDeleteYes, it is hard to find the inner strength to start over and have faith in yourself again.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful my daughter found her inner strength when she went through a horrible divorce. We have much to be thankful for this season. Your book sound like a great read. Your mom's candy recipe sound like a good one to try. Thanks for sharing.
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