BLURB:
Alice
Grantham lost her fiancé and her job, so she’s had to come home to Willow Park
to live with her parents. To recover some sense of independence and security,
she’s cobbled together different part-time jobs, including one as assistant to
the pastor of her hometown church. Nothing seems to be going right for her.
Even Micah, the pastor’s brother and the first boy she ever loved, is
standoffish with her now.
Micah has always
been a prodigal son, but now he’s trying to put that lifestyle behind him. Then
a five-month-old daughter he never knew existed is dropped on his doorstep, the
result of one of his many one-night stands. He needs help from Alice to care
for his daughter, but he can’t let himself hope for anything more from her than
that. He can’t help but want it, though…
EXCERPT:
Now, however, Alice was regretting
her random impulse to put on a skirt that morning, since she was on her knees
in front of the bookshelves, putting the last of the commentaries back in
place.
At least no one was around to see
her undignified position, with her skirt pushed up to her thighs to give
herself freedom to move.
“Daniel,” a voice came from outside
the office. “Daniel!”
She recognized the voice, but he was
in the office before she could move or pull down her skirt. She froze as she
looked over her shoulder, befuddled by Micah’s sudden appearance.
He seemed equally startled to
discover her on the floor, after his eyes scanned the room for his absent
brother. “Oh,” he said, standing in the doorway.
It took her a minute to pull herself
together, but when she did she managed to smile. “He went to the hospital to
see Mrs. Cooper.”
“Oh.” Micah was such a self-assured
man that it was strange to see him so stumped.
Then there was a different sound in
the office. It took Alice a few seconds to even identify it. It was so
unexpected that she was sure it wasn’t right.
It sounded like a baby whimpering.
Finally, her eyes drifted down to
something Micah was holding. A baby carrier. A baby carrier.
“Is that a baby?” she asked, her
voice hoarse with surprise.
He looked down at the carrier as if
he’d forgotten he held it. “Yeah.”
She scrambled to her feet, rather
clumsily, and hurried over to look at the baby as he set the carrier on
Daniel’s desk, right on top of the printed copy of sermon notes for Sunday.
She peered into the carrier and saw
the baby—maybe four or five months old—wearing a pink sleeper. Her eyes were
blue and grumpy, and her whimpers were quickly turning louder.
Instinctively, Alice reached out for
the girl and pulled her up to rest against her shoulder, patting her back in a
comforting manner.
Alice had always liked kids. She’d
never had baby-fever, but she certainly knew what to do when one was starting
to cry.
“What are you doing with her?” she
asked Micah, who’d been staring at the baby with that same glazed look of
bewilderment.
“I…I don’t know.”
“Well, whose is she?” Surely this
baby hadn’t dropped from the sky into the back of Micah’s truck.
His features twisted slightly—maybe
anxiety, maybe disbelief. “That’s the thing. I think…I think she’s mine.”
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Noelle
handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was
twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different
states and currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any
book she can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker
spaniel.
She
loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of
her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and
focus on writing contemporary romances.
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9 comments:
My pleasure, Noelle. Happy Easter. And a perfect book for the season.
I can't imagine having a baby dropped on me. Of course, women know if they've had a baby or not... Love this excerpt!
Sounds like a good one, great cover too
Hi Robin,
Thanks for stopping by and supporting Noelle.
Pat,
It does doesn't it. Thanks for stopping by Pat. I appreciate it.
This sounds like a really special story. I'm very interested and will be adding it to my never ending TBR list! I'm following Noelle on Twitter now and will RT her links for A Baby for Easter=)
This sounds like a great story!
Sounds like a delightfully romantic story. Great post.
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