Christmas at Linda’s
Christmas
is my favorite holiday. Its starts with decorating the weekend after
Thanksgiving. No Black Friday sales for me, I hate the crowds. I’d rather put
up my tree and take out the Nativity.
Spare time
on the weekends are filled with Christmas movies - my favorites are White
Christmas and The Holiday. I love the Hallmark Christmas specials too. They
really put me in the mood since we don’t get much cold weather here in Texas.
Christmas
eve is family day which usually includes adopted family - friends with no
family near. I usually cook something from a different culture for the evening
meal, German one year, Spanish the next, Italian the year after, etc. Then we
watch more Christmas movies and open our gifts at midnight. We take pictures
with our gifts then go to bed.
Christmas
day is sleeping in and having a yummy brunch of eggs, bacon, hash browns and
leftovers! Come join us!
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Take 2
Take 2 is
a story of love, loss and loving again. There are travels, roadblocks, and
struggles.
Alexandra
Daniels is a forty-something, hard-working mom, wife and employee. Her life has
been plodding along at a snails pace and she’s longing for excitement. She wins
a trip to her favorite talk show in New York, the Veronica Becker Show, and it
just so happens the actor of her dreams is a guest, Derek Dunbar! Is Alex’s
life about to change?
Derek
Dunbar is Scottish, an actor and a hunk! Every woman in America drools after
him. He has his pick of women but stinks at relationships. At forty, is he
longing for a more meaningful relationship? Does he even know how to have one?
Is he willing to make the effort or will it just be too complicated?
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Chapter 1
Alex sat
in her chair, her eyes wide, staring at the screen. She loved the Veronica
Becker Show and was a faithful viewer. During her lunch hour at work she would
rush to the break room to turn it on. Veronica had viewer contests every
week. Alex had never won anything but
that didn’t prevent her from signing up each week in hopes, knowing full well
the likelihood of winning was minimal at best.
“Today one lucky viewer will win a
trip for two to visit New York and my show.
An all-expense-paid weekend!” announced Veronica Becker, touted as the
‘“Every Woman’s Woman’” by national magazines.
Veronica Becker had become a
household name, a chef for the everyday woman: quick, inexpensive meals that
were tasty, too. Veronica had taken her love of cooking to television and added
a bit of fashion, some down to earth chat with the audience, and interviews
with the latest stars. She was health conscious and wanted the women in her
audience to look their best at any age. She also loved to give things away.
Coming from a modest family, she believed in giving back. Generous to a fault,
if there was an earthquake somewhere, a typhoon, or tornado, Veronica was there
to help out.
“Our winner is Alexandra Daniels of
Plano, Texas! Congratulations! We’ll be giving Alexandra a call today!”
Her co-workers were staring at her.
Had she really won?
“Alex! That’s you! You won!” they
all shouted.
“Oh...my...God! I can’t believe it!
I won!”
Alex had the hardest time
concentrating the rest of the afternoon. As a customer service rep for a
marketing company, she was usually swamped with work but couldn’t concentrate.
Two o’clock rolled around and Alex’s cell rang, a number she didn’t recognize.
“Hello?”
“Is this Alexandra Daniels?”
“Yes, it is”
“Alexandra, this is the Veronica
Becker show. I am pleased to tell you that you are the winner of a trip for two
to New York City and tickets for the show.”
“I can’t believe it! Are you sure?”
Alex was still in shock. She wanted to make sure there was no mistake. Josh
would never believe her.
“Yes, you’ve won! We will send your
tickets out next week. Your trip is for April 15th to 17th. Can you
make it those dates?”
“Oh yes!
I’ll make it work! Thank you so much!”
“We’ll get back to you Monday to finalize the
details. Have a great weekend!”
“Oh, I will now!” Alex was amazed!
It was true, she actually won! She was already mentally packing when reality
hit. Josh would never take off work to go. Maybe Mattie could go with
her....no, she had school. She could ask Kathleen, her best friend and
co-worker, but they couldn’t take off at the same time. Kathleen was her back
up so one of them had to be there. No, she’d have to go alone. Well, it was
about time she did something adventurous. This was probably the most exciting
thing that had happened to Alex in a very long time.
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Take 2 is Linda Bolton’s first release due out December 29 in ebook on Amazon. When she’s
not writing she is a new GiGi, playing with her new granddaughter Z, working
full-time and writing. While working on a future projects Linda can be found:
On
Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lindaboltonauthor
On Twitter
at http://www.twitter.com/#!/lindalou42
Her
romance blog at http://www.lindabolton.blogspot.com
Thank you,
Linda for sharing your Christmas with us, and also a sneak peek at your new
novel, Take 2. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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