A BABY FOR EASTER
by Noelle Adams
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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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Baby for Easter will be offered at a special release price of $.99 through
Easter day! Regularly priced at $2.99.
Noelle
will be awarding prizes via Rafflecopter as follows:
* One winner will receive a $25 GC to Amazon
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* Two winners will receive signed paperbacks
of Married for Christmas and A Baby for Easter
* Ten winners will receive their choice of
ebook of any title from Noelle’s backlist.
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