Christmas Love Year Round

  • Author: Elaine Stock
  • Publisher: GTG Publishing
  • Print Length: 214 pages
  • Release Date: September 25, 2018
  • I Rate it:    
  • GenreChristian
  • Purchase on Amazon

Book Summary

Cami Richardson is good at chasing away the men in her life: first Gavin Kinkaid, a former classmate she’d helped to bully, and later, her husband who left her widowed and a single mom. Now all she wants is to bring a smile back to her eight-year-old son. What she doesn’t expect is for Gavin to become her new neighbor.

Gavin wants to settle down after serving in the Air Force and mend the separation between him and his dad. What he never counts on is his changing feelings when he sees Cami as a kind woman instead of his former adversary.

When Cami’s son blindsides them both during the Christmas season, is their reunion at risk or will it grow stronger?

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Guest Post from Elaine Stock

To love someone with all of your heart is the only thing that matters in this world.

Readers often ask the origin of a story idea. When I wrote my first published novel, Always With You, I was asked if my husband was a white supremacist. No! When Her Good Girl released, the questions of whether my mother practiced Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy popped up as well. Although my mother unfortunately did suffer another mental illness, it wasn’t MSP. And now Christmas Love Year Round, Book 1 of the Kindred Lake romance series, is on sale. What does fuel my writing? What is a connecting theme between the stories I write?

Love.

Love is the most essential relationship we must share between all…between family members, friends, neighbors…between strangers, enemies, those who live differently than us, and foreign countries.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 13:34-35 (NIV)

Yet, isn’t honest love the hardest thing to do? Perhaps it is also the most difficult virtue to teach and the most vexing passion to express.

Imagine this scenario: You’re a widowed mom with an impressionable eight-year-old son. Your conscience is riddled with the worry that you might have pushed your husband toward his death, and that’s on top of the weight bearing down on you from your childhood days of participating with others to bully a particular family in town.

Then, the one boy who was part of that picked-upon family, now a grown man and stirringly handsome purchases the house across the street from you. You’ll likely see him every day.

And, with a gulp, you realize…that you want to see him. That actually, despite all that transpired between the two of you back in high school, you’re Attracted to him with a Capital A.

Might that magnetism between the two of you be mutual?

This is the set-up between Cami and Gavin in Christmas Love Year Round. Will these two former adversaries forgive not only each other but themselves as well and take loving one’s neighbor to the next step of falling in love and making amends into amens?

May each of you be blessed with love and joy year round!

About The Author

Elaine Stock writes contemporary fiction, fusing romance, family drama, and psychological suspense in a "clean fiction" style, suitable for teens to any age adult. ALWAYS WITH YOU, her debut novel, is a 2017 Christian Small Publishers Association Book of the Year Award winner in the fiction category. Elaine's short stories were published in the best-selling Amazon anthology "Christmas Treasures: A Collection of Christmas Short Stories" and FamilyFiction's "The Story: 2014 Anthology." She is also a regular contributor to the HappySis Magazine. On her blog, Everyone's Story, she hosts guests weekly to help encourage readers, writers, and all those in-between.

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Book Review by Bree Herron

Curling up with a good book during the Holiday season is a tradition for many. This year, I recommend curling up with Christmas Love Year Round, a story that will touch your heart and bring you joy. This is a story about childhood memories of pain and how as adults our characters of came the past to bring forth a beautiful future.

Characters

I think Gavin was easily my favorite character. His past of being bullied and having to face those that did the acts was one that I have seen with my students. The author clearly provided readers with a beloved message through Gavin returning and the way that forgiveness can happen.

Enjoyable Moments

Cami’s son, Danny was not happy about having a new mentor in Gavin. I really loved how this posed a conflict that was able to get resolved throughout the story. This is something that you see in children where trust is hard to gain, Danny had a loss in his family and change was hard for him. I liked the moments we got to be in Danny’s world. 

Synoptic

As sweet as any Hallmark movie, this book was one I would easily read again around the holidays. A story that warms your heart, reaches deep into your emotions and comes out with a smile, this book is one that anyone can enjoy. I am sure that your holiday season will be brighter because of reading this book.

I Rate it

Bullying is a tough subject. How can we show more kindness?

**DISCLAIMER: I was provided an opportunity to read this book as an Advanced Reader Copy in return for a fair and honest review.

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Elaine is giving away

Grand Prize: Winner’s choice between print (US only) or Kindle of Christmas Love Year Round, Kindle of And You Came Along (companion novel to Christmas Love Year Round), and a $10.00 Amazon Gift Card

1st and 2nd Prizes: a Kindle edition of Christmas Love Year Round!!

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Find out all the details and enter to WIN at Christmas Love Year Round Celebration Tour Giveaway.

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5 Comments

  1. Elaine Stock

    Bree, heartfelt thanks for an amazing, most wonderful review of Christmas Love Year Round. I’m glad you enjoyed Cami and Gavin’s story.

    May you, your loved ones, and viewers be blessed with Christmas love year round.

    Reply
  2. Angela Saver

    This sounds like a good read and I enjoyed learning of this author who is new to me!

    Reply
  3. Kara Vaughan Marks

    This loos like a great book–ty for the giveaway. I’d love to read it.

    Reply
  4. James Robert

    I am enjoying these tours and finding all the terrific books my family is enjoying reading. Thanks for bringing them to us and keep up the good work.

    Reply
  5. Arletta

    Happy to discover another Christmas read. Thank you for the review.

    Reply

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