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There’s no time like a pandemic…

to welcome readers to a wholly new website design.

I hope this finds you safe and healthy. Here in Massachusetts, Im taking my non-essential status seriously, and staying home unless its necessary for work or to stock the pantry. I work remotely for both of my day jobs, but without commuting, our sons activities, our activities, or any kind of social life beyond Zoom and FaceTime, I had time to explore a complete overhaul of this site. I hope youll find a little escape, a little romance, and...

Romancing Our Readers Giveaway!

If you’re going to vanish from blogging for months and months at a time, I say come back with a giveaway! A whole bunch of small town romance authors have banded together to present a giveaway full of pampering, cozy reading-themed goodies worth $250, and you could take it all home! *By entering this giveaway, […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Christmas Day

Hamish woke on Christmas morning sore in places he’d not realized he had muscles. Shoveling a Vermont storm wasn’t for the weak. He found Kate already in the kitchen, brewing coffee. “We’ll keep bakers’ hours ’til we’re dead, won’t we?” Kate chuckled and poured a dollop of heavy cream into her mug. “I imagine. Ewan […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

Père Noel brought the snow. When Juliet woke to a fairytale of thick, sparkling white snow barely passable roads, that’s all she could think. There would be no Christmas in Canada, but neither would there be a reckoning with Stephen. Père Noel had also brought a power outage. Making her way to the kitchen to […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

The forecasters all missed the storm. No computer model revealed its true nature in advance. Hamish woke on Christmas Eve to a world of snow like he’d never seen. It drove in nearly horizontal sheets for hours, piling up in windblown dunes against the sturdy old farmhouse. Kate bundled out to check on the chickens. […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

Juliet practically floated out of her meeting with the editor of Bennington Magazine. It was the second of the day, the second Christmas present the gods of writing had seen fit to bestow. She’d driven two hours south from Thornton, soothing her anxiety with vistas of snow covered fir trees and icy mountain lakes, first […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

Hamish should have been anticipating the ambush, but Kate was a professional. She sidled up to him while he was tending to the rye starter he was growing for her, handing him a mug of strong, sweet coffee and a eggnog muffin. “Her parents died. She’s a little lost right now—and planning to move on […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

It’s an actual sleigh. Juliet hadn’t really known what to expect until Hamish took her hand and they walked up from the parking lot at West’s Christmas Tree and Maple Farm. Just past what a sign declared to be the sugar house, a long, forest green and gold sleigh, with benches like a hay ride […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Hamish

Hamish picked his way across Kate’s yard with a bowl of kitchen scraps in hand. His feet swam in Ewan’s boots, borrowed from the boot tray by the back door. Chickens. Kate Pease keeping chickens. It boggled the mind. He had to admit the eggs were fantastic. He opened the chain link gate and stepped […]

Bread and Promises: A Thornton Vermont Christmas Story: Juliet

Her mother would have been appalled. Nice young ladies didn’t drop hints the size of hot air balloons. Good girls didn’t suggest romantic outings with scruffy Scotsmen who were barely more than strangers. Juliet and Hamish were swallowed up in the crowds applauding the newly lit tree, and Hamish was absorbed into Kate Pease’s circle […]