BLOGGING WITH BEVERLEY: Barbara White Daille's Christmas Book and Sale

Barbara White Daille lives with her husband in the sunny Southwest. Though they love the warm winters and the lizards in their front yard, they haven’t gotten used to the scorpions in the bathroom. Barbara also loves writing, reading, and chocolate. Come to think of it, she enjoys writing about those subjects, too!

Barbara wrote her first short story at the age of nine, then typed "The End" to her first novel many years later...in the eighth grade. Now she's writing contemporary romance on a daily basis, with an ongoing series from Harlequin Western Romance (The Hitching Post Hotel) and a new series from Entangled Bliss (Snowflake Valley). Sign up for her newsletter to keep up with the latest in her writing life: http://barbarawhitedaille.com/newsletter.

Happy Holidays to everyone celebrating this month!
I'm very happy to be back for a return visit with Beverley—and with you.

This time, I’m sharing my new release, One Week to Win Her Boss, Book 2 in the Snowflake Valley series as well as great sale news(see below) about Snowbound with Mr. Wrong, Book1. FYI, all my books, even in series, can be read as standalones, since each hero and heroine reaches their happily-ever-after by the end of their story.

The setting of One Week to Win Her Boss is Snowflake Valley, a town that celebrates Christmas 365 days a year. With a holiday backdrop like that one, this was a fun book to write. But a romance is not all about the setting. In fact, the focus is on the main characters—and I have to confess that during the writing of this book, my hero and heroine gave me fits.

Michael and Amber are so strongly drawn to one another, but they know they’re not meant to be together. Yes, there’s a fun backdrop and many wonderful holiday events happening for them in this book. Yet they still struggle to settle their conflict, which turned this into both a heartwarming and a heart-wrenching story.

Find out more about that in the blurb from the book:

Single mom Amber Barnett loves family, kids, Christmas…and unfortunately, her boss, confirmed bachelor Michael DeFranco. It's a crush she really needs to get over. Except, when she’s temporarily forced from her apartment, her only option is to stay at Michael’s private ski lodge, where she's the housekeeper. No problem. Her handsome boss rarely visits Snowflake Valley unexpectedly, plus he’s spending the holidays with his family. Or so she thinks…

A stormy Christmas Eve reunion leaves Michael seeking the solitude of his lodge, where he finds Amber in residence—and in trouble. Attempting to save her from her matchmaking family, he announces they’re a couple. His good deed backfires when they’re instantly included in each and every holiday event in town. So much for solitude.

Only the more time he spends with the beautiful, cheery brunette, the more he yearns to make things real between them. But he and Amber want different things, and Michael could never be the family man she's looking for.

And here’s an excerpt from the book for you. In this beginning of a scene, Amber and Michael are about to make their first official appearance as a “couple”—at her family’s house on Christmas Day: Amber stole a glance at Michael in the driver’s seat of his SUV. This morning, she had wondered why the mention of work made him look so grim. Now she knew. It hurt her heart to know he didn’t love his job the way she loved hers.

Oh, don't go there. Bad enough that in just minutes she would have to pretend to be “together” with Michael. She couldn’t let anyone see how she really felt about him.

This could turn out to be the worst week of her life. Or the best—if you believed in miracles.

After pulling onto the street she indicated, he said, “We probably should have prepped.”

“For Christmas? His laugh seemed to fill the enclosed space. It definitely filled her heart with joy.

Don’t go there, either."
No, not for Christmas. For the afternoon we need to get through.”

She blinked. So much for joy. And what about the big plan to have Scrooge enjoy the holiday? Hopefully, the jury was still out on that one. “Turn here. This is it.”

He pulled up close to the snow-swept front steps of her family home and came around to help her out of the SUV. When he took her arm, her startled breath of surprise misted in the cold air. A dead giveaway. A visual reminder to watch her reactions today.

As she moved to the rear seat to get Penny, he asked, “How many are there in your family?”

“Ten, counting my parents and the baby. You’ve met Callie and Lyssa. They’re the two oldest, then me. After us, we have a set of twin sisters and two younger brothers.” He looked up at the house she had lived in until a short time ago. “Big place. You and the others are out on your own?”

“No, actually, they all still live at home.”

His eyes widened, as if her answer had surprised him.

“What makes you so independent?” he asked.

She hesitated, fiddling with Penny’s blanket. What could she say? Definitely not that after her ex had left she had been too full of wounded pride—and too ashamed of her mistake in marrying him—to go back home. And positively not that Michael had been her hero, stepping in with his job offer the point she had needed it most. “I just…like living on my own. With Penny.”

“Yeah. Amber…” He paused, looking down at her, then reached out to trace her cheek with one finger. A cold and padded finger, covered by his glove. And still she felt the warmth of him. Or thought she did. He smiled. “Just testing to make sure you wouldn’t jump. Doing this job right is going to involve us getting close. And probably some touching.”

Getting close and touching sounded so good. So right. But the word that stood out to her was job.

Buy Links:
The links below will take you to all your fave etailers for One Week to Win Her Boss. There’s also a link for Book 1 in the series, Snowbound with Mr. Wrong, which my publisher has on sale all month for only 99 cents!
https://entangledpublishing.com/one-week-to-win-her-boss.html https://entangledpublishing.com/snowbound-with-mr-wrong.html