Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour and Giveaway for Hometown Healing by Jennifer Slattery, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Hometown HealingAuthor: Jennifer Slattery
Publisher: Love Inspired
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Romance
She’s home again, but not for long…
Unless this cowboy recaptures her heart.
Returning home with a baby in tow, Paige Cordell’s determined her stay is only temporary. But to earn enough money to leave, she needs a job—and her only option is working at her first love’s dinner theater. With attraction once again unfurling between her and Jed Gilbertson, can the man who once broke her heart convince her to stay for good?
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EXCERPT FROM HOMETOWN HEALING
Paige Cordell felt as if she had
regressed back to that awkward, frizzy-haired bookworm who’d left Sage Creek,
Texas, fourteen years ago. With no intention of ever returning.
And yet here she was. As a divorced, unemployed,
single mother no less.
Nothing screamed failure like sitting in Mom’s
driveway, with all of her belongings crammed into a U-Haul hitched to her car.
She glanced back at little Ava, sleeping soundly
in her car seat. She looked so peaceful, with her rosy cheeks, the halo of red
curls and the slight part of her lips. As if she hadn’t just spent nearly an
hour fussing, not that Paige could blame her. They’d had quite the drive.
Traffic, work zones, an accident just outside of Houston.
Her phone rang. Paige glanced at the screen. It
was Mira, her old high school friend.
“Hey.”
“Just checking you made it into town okay. And to
see if maybe you’d like to stop by my place for a nice, cold milkshake.”
“Just got in.” She explained the reason for her
three-hour delay. “And though I appreciate the offer, I’m wiped.”
“I imagine.”
“And discouraged. I know I’ll find another job
eventually…”
“Have you prayed about it?” Mira’s statement
sliced through Paige like an accusation. “Might help.”
“Please don’t talk religion to me. Not today.” She
believed in God. But unlike her friend, she didn’t find comfort in tossing
every decision up to Him.
Besides, she and God hadn’t exactly been on the
best terms as of late.
“Well, like I said, this is only a hiccup.” Mira’s
overly perky pep talk wasn’t helping. “Consider this an extended vacation.”
“I can’t believe Ardell let me go. I mean, I get
budget cuts, but why me? I was a high performer. I never missed a deadline,
pitched great article ideas…”
“You’ll find something even better, with more job
security.”
Paige inhaled a fortifying breath. “You’re right.”
She’d never allowed setbacks to discourage her before, and she had no intention
of starting now. “Maybe even for a better magazine, with a larger readership.”
Only, Chic Fashions was about as big as they
came. Not only was it Chicago’s premier fashion publication, but it was
considered the top in the nation. She’d worked long and hard to land a position
with them, only to end up jobless and living with her mother.
The antithesis of adulthood.
She glanced at Mom’s single-story brick house,
heavily shadowed by a towering oak. Thick roots snaked through the grass, and a
handful of dandelions dotted the lawn. The windows were dingy, like they hadn’t
been washed in…ever, and the canary-yellow trim was beginning to peel.
Other than that, the place seemed well-kept, and the
yard had been mowed, which was surprising if her sister were right about how
much Mom struggled. Hopefully Paige’s arrival would help pull Mom out of this
phase she was in.
A blur of red seeped into her peripheral vision,
and she shifted to watch a shiny red pickup truck pull into the adjacent
driveway.
Her pulse spiked as a tall, broad-shouldered man
dressed in jeans, boots, and a cowboy hat stepped out and then turned her way. “Seriously?
Could this day get any worse?” she muttered.
“Why? What happened?”
With the phone still pressed to her ear, she sank
farther into her seat, with no intention of leaving her vehicle. At least, not
until Jed Gilbertson was no longer standing less than fifty feet away. Staring
at her.
She turned to the box of office junk on the seat
beside her to avoid making eye contact. “Jed just pulled up at his grandmother’s.”
It’d been too long, and her heart had been too shattered, for him to still have
such a pull on her.
“I thought you were over him.”
So did she.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Slattery is a writer and speaker who’s addressed women’s groups, Bible studies, and writers across the nation. She’s the author of the soon to release Building a Family and numerous other titles and maintains a devotional blog at JenniferSlatteryLivesOutLoud.com. As the founder of Wholly Loved Ministries, she’s passionate about helping women discover, embrace, and live out who they are in Christ. Visit her online to learn more about her speaking or to book her for your next women’s event and sign up for her free quarterly newsletter HERE and make sure to connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.
TOUR GIVEAWAY
(1) winner will receive a signed four print book bundle including Restoring Her Faith (Love Inspired), Hometown Healing (Love Inspired), Breaking Free (New Hope), and Restoring Love (New Hope)!
Be sure to check out each stop on the tour for more chances to win. Full tour schedule linked below. Giveaway will begin at midnight February 22, 2020 and last through 11:59 PM EST on February 29, 2020. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Continental US mailing addresses only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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