BLURB:
“I did what?”
Twenty-eight year old Gabriella Bessu is St. Therese’s
meticulous wedding ceremony coordinator. So the fact that she has mistakenly
signed her newest couple up for an annulment, rather than a wedding, sends her
Catholic guilt into overdrive.
But who can blame her? The groom is gorgeous and his two
kids tug at Gabriella’s heart in a way that overcomes all her best intentions.
Before long she’s in over her head, fixing her mixed-up plans and helping the
children and dad come to terms with their haunting grief for the mother and
wife they lost years earlier.
Can Gabriella untangle her own fears and accept the messy
life that God has handed them?
EXCERPT:
Gabriella heard Mandy’s screech all the way down the corridor. Oh
no! That didn’t sound good. She’d sort of thought Mandy appeared wound up
when they had first arrived at the office but she couldn’t imagine what would
have made her explode like that.
She didn’t have to wait long to
find out. Seconds later, Mandy stormed into her office pointing a piece of
paper at her like a gun. Within moments, Ryan and Fr. O’Shea followed her
through the door, Ryan seeming confused and Fr. O looking apologetic.
“There is no way . . ..
I can tell you, NO WAY that Tina would have said I was not ready to get
married. This is beyond crazy.” She turned to Fr. O’Shea and waved her arm in
Gabriella’s direction.
“Okay, let’s slow down a
little, honey.” Ryan tried to calm her. “We need to find out what happened from
Gabriella.”
He studied Gabriella
questioningly, but she could only stand mute, shaking her head.
“Bri, you took Tina’s
statement, right?”
Gabriella nodded her head.
“Did she say anything to you to make you think”—Fr. O.
stopped and gently took the paper from Mandy’s manic grasp—“that Mandy might
not be prepared for being a wife or mother.”
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
With an English teacher for a mom, DEANNE WILSTED, grew up
reciting conjugation instead of nursery rhymes. Now, forty years later, she's
sharing that special skill through her writing and her mothering. Her first
book, a contemporary romance called BETTING JESSICA, was released
October 2011. Her second Novel, UNTANGLING
THE KNOT, is due out in February 2013 from Soul Mate Publishing.
She is currently marketing her third book for publication and writing her
fourth, fifth and sixth while blogging about the crazy stuff she overhears
while writing.
LINKS:
Author Follow Links –
@dwilsted - https://twitter.com/dwilsted
Goodreads author
page- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5294824.Deanne_Wilsted
Amazon author page - http://amzn.com/e/B005YHFBQ2
Untangling the Knot Purchase Links
http://www.soulmatepublishing.com/untangling-the-knot/
3 comments:
Thank you for hosting this tour!
Thanks so much for hosting me today. I'm looking forward to seeing what your readers have to say about their own tangled up knots so I will check back and reply to comments and questions. In the meantime, though, I just wanted to say a huge thanks for sharing the journey.
Yours,
Deanne
Most welcome, Goddess.
My pleasure, Deanne. All the best. Sounds like a great read.
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