Guest Post by LoRee Peery

LoRee Peery tells the best stories. She has a new release this Christmas!

Part of my planning for a new story project is going through an ideas file. I had saved a magazine article about a woman who overcame growing up in a storage unit. I still marvel at how a family could live in a ten-by-twenty-foot aluminum box. This woman’s courage and determination haunted and intrigued me. The siblings didn’t go to school. Their father only worked on weekends and sounded like a man I would have run away from. For whatever reason, God planned that for her life and looked over her. As I read the article again, Pepper came to life for me. Christmas House for a title just made sense and I never considered another. (I’ve actually started a sequel, “Christmas in Garland,” since my story ends on Thanksgiving.)

Blurb:

Pepper Rainwater has just bought the first real home she’ s ever had, and she’ s decorating and celebrating Christmas with everything she has. The neighbor’ s miniature donkeys and meeting Foxx interrupt her life. Can she turn from all she’ d been taught and trust strangers?

A startling discovery after his father’ s death forces Foxx Haven to face an unknown past. His life has been a lie. He’ s distracted from work for the first time— by his heritage and his new neighbor. Can he fight his attraction to an unbeliever and discover his new life chapter at the same time?

Miniature donkeys and learning about Christ have a profound impact on Pepper. But God has a mighty work to bring her hurting soul and Foxx’ s new perspective into alignment. Can hope override hurting souls and enable a happily-ever-after?

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