Christmas is a time for rememberingâ¦
Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the townâs Mean Girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned.
But Sophia has paid the price for her youthful transgressions. The man she did marry was rich and powerful but abusive. Then he goes missingâand she soon learns that he died running from an FBI probe of his investment firm. Not only has he left Sophia penniless, heâs left her to face all the townspeople he cheated.â¦
Sophia is reduced to looking for any kind of work to pay the bills and support her daughter. With no other options, she accepts a job as housekeeper for Ted, now a successful suspense writer. He canât turn his back on her, but he refuses to get emotionally involved.
Will Christmas, the season of love and forgiveness, bring them another chance at happiness?
Praise for the Whiskey Creek novels of
New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak
âA hero in need of redemption, a heroine up to the challenge, and an idyllic California gold country setting brilliantly launch Novakâs foray into the thriving âsmall-town communityâ market.â
âLibrary Journal on When Lightning Strikes
â[The charactersâ] heartwarming romance develops slowly and sweetly. The sex is fantastic, but the best part is how Simon and Gail tease and laugh as they grow closer.â
âPublishers Weekly on When Lightning Strikes
âNovak delivers a lively, sparkling series debutâ¦romantic gold by a superior novelist. The love story blossoms naturally, which is rare nowadays⦠Additionally, by populating Whiskey Creek with realistic charactersâinstead of âquirkyâ caricaturesâNovak ensures that readers will eagerly await their next visit.â
âRT Book Reviews on When Lightning Strikes
âItâs steamy, itâs poignant, itâs perfectly pacedâitâs When Lightning Strikes and you donât want to miss it!â
âUSA TODAY.comâs Happy Ever After blog
âIn this sensitive, passionate, and heartbreakingly poignant second installment of her Whiskey Creek series, Novak masterfully explores what happens when a woman whose entire life has been consumed by playing a variety of roles casts off her suffocating masks and, with the support of an unexpected lover, embraces who she was, is and can be.â
âRT Book Reviews on When Snow Falls (2012 Reviewersâ Choice Award Winner)
âWith a great supporting cast of characters Novak fans have come to know quite well, When Summer Comes is a magical addition to the already heartwarming Whiskey Creek series.â
âFresh Fiction
âA rare treat. Brenda Novak draws you in from the first page.â
â#1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy
To Sandra Standley and her mother, Diane.
I think you two have read every book Iâve ever written. Thanks for your tremendous enthusiasm and support!
Dear Reader,
Iâve had many of you request Ted and Sophiaâs storyâso Iâm excited to see it published, especially at Christmas because Christmas is such a perfect time for forgiveness, and thatâs what Sophia longs for. If youâve read the rest of the books in this series, you already know that she needed to learn a few lessons. Fortunately, they were nothing that the school of hard knocks couldnât teach her. By the time I finished this story I admired her as much as (or even more than) all the other characters in Whiskey Creek, even the ones whoâve lived exemplary lives. I hope youâll agree as you come to know her and her situation better.
I am often asked if my Whiskey Creek books can be read as stand-alone stories or if they need to be read in order. The answer to that question is, yes, they can be read alone and should be just as enjoyable. So dive in and meet the group of friends whoâve made Whiskey Creek âThe Heart of Gold Country.â
Please visit my website at www.brendanovak.com for more information about this book and all the others Iâve written (I think Iâm getting close to forty-five, although itâs been a while since Iâve counted). If youâre all caught up on Whiskey Creek, you might be interested in trying my other small-town series (with a total of eight books) set in the fictional town of Dundee, Idaho, until Come Home to Me (Aaron and Presleyâs story) is released in April 2014.
At my website you can also drop me an email, enter my many giveaways and participate in my annual online auction for diabetes research. So far, weâve managed to raise nearly $2 million to help those (like my son) who have diabetes.
Enjoy!
Brenda
WHISKEY CREEK Cast of Characters
Major Characters
Cheyenne Christensen: Helps Eve Harmon run Little Maryâs B and B (formerly the Gold Nugget). Married to Dylan Amos, who owns Amos Auto Body.
Gail DeMarco: Owns a public relations firm in L.A. Married to movie star Simon OâNeal.
Ted Dixon: Bestselling thriller writer.
Eve Harmon: Manages Little Maryâs B and B, which is owned by her family.
Kyle Houseman: Owns a solar panel business. Formerly married to Noelle Arnold.