Christmastide on Bald Head Island ♦ Rose McCauley ♦ Giveaway

Welcome to Whispers in Purple, dear readers. 'Tis the Season, right? Christmas is in the air! The bell-ringers are out; grocery store parking lots are full of fragrant evergeen trees ready to be taken home and decorated; some of us are already listening to Christmas music; and others, like our guest author today, are sharing their seasonal books and writings for your reading pleasure.

So please join me in greeting author Rose Allen McCauley and her brand new release, Christmastied on Bald Head Island, our second—but not last!—Christmas feature of the month. Oh, yeah . . . there's a giveaway included, as well. Just scroll down for the details

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Four generations of women find second chances at love on Bald Head Island.

Literature weaves its way through the hearts of the Jordan family women. Matriarch, Grace Jordan, has a particular affinity for William Shakespeare. Just as his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, spins a tale of the planning of one wedding but ends with three ceremonies, Grace and her two daughters, Rosalind and Miranda, discover rekindled love while planning Rosalind's daughter, Jane Anne's Christmas wedding. 

In a twist of fate, ceremony plans change. However, just like Elizabeth Bennett and Anne Shirley from Jane Austen and Lucy Montgomery's respective classic tales, all four Jordan women discover what—and who—will make them truly happy.

Buy links:  

• Kindle: http://amzn.to/2d4pzxG 
• Paperback: http://amzn.to/2eTgLrY 

ABOUT ROSE:

Rose has been writing for over a decade and has five books published. A retired schoolteacher who has been happily married to her college sweetheart for over forty years, they enjoy their growing family of three children and their spouses and five lovely, lively grandkids! She loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her through her website www.rosemccauley.com or twitter @RoseAMcCauley and Facebook http://on.fb.me/1LrXNoS

ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY: 

Rose is offering one free copy of Christmastime on Bald Head Mountain for your Kindle reader. Entering is simple: just leave a comment below this post and include your contact info: e.g. you (at) yourdomail (dot) com (so we can notify you if you win)  Giveaway ends one week from today (Monday, December 12) at Midnight CST. Note: I require a minimum of 5 (five) comments in order to make the giveaway fair, so share this blog post with friends & family on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media you choose. Thanks. 

Let’s Research with author Rose Allen McCauley

Rose loves to travel and has posted pictures from several countries on her website/blog at www.rosemccauley.com .

A retired schoolteacher who has been happily married to her college sweetheart for over four decades, she is also mother to three grown children and their spouses and Mimi to five lovely, lively kids!

Although Rose has lived on a farm of almost four hundred acres for the past forty-two years, she recently moved to a small town in KY. She loves to read and write small town stories. If you have a small town story you’d like to share, please stop by her website and leave a comment. She would love to hear from you.

You can also reach her on twitter @RoseAMcCauley and Facebook at http://on.fb.me/1LrXNoS

 

Joy Worth runs away to Puerto Rico with a broken engagement, broken heart, and questions for the Lord. Can Benigno Cook earn her trust and love while helping her learn to hear God’s still, quiet voice again?

 

Research for Surrender to Peace set in Puerto Rico, by Rose Allen McCauley @RoseAMcCauley

My husband says we travel more than he wants to and less than I want to, but we both thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Puerto Rico to get first-hand research for my latest book, Surrender to Peace.

I did my beginning research on the Internet as I was writing this book, and I found lots of pictures and helpful sites. But, I still felt I needed to travel to some of the locations to make sure all the facts were right, and I was very glad I did as I found a major blooper. One of the restaurants listed as oceanfront was really over a block from the ocean, so I had to re-write that romantic scene!

Also, actually seeing the rainforest and going on the tour to La Mina Falls in El Yunque National Forest made it easier to describe the scenery and trails.

So, I do recommend going to all the places you can to do research or at least make some calls to ask questions from local people, which is what I try to do when I can’t visit the sites.

I hope you can travel to Puerto Rico someday, but until then I hope you will want to read this book. Several of my reviewers on Amazon and Goodreads wrote about how real the descriptions were, and they felt like they were traveling with my characters!

Happy reading, and happy travels whether in person on through the pages of a book!

• “Writing stories set in small towns with huge hearts”
• Available on Amazon and other locations:
• Christmas Belles of Georgia, Barbour
• Christmas Grace
• Surrrender to Peace, Olivia Kimbrell Press available for pre-order: Courageous Brides, Barbour

Thank you so much, Rose, for sharing what must have been a fun and fascinating research trip!