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The Dating CharadeBy Melissa Ferguson
Contemporary Romance, Christian
Paperback, Audiobook & ebook, 336 Pages
December 3rd 2019 by Thomas Nelson
Just when you think you’ve met your match . . . the charade begins.
Cassie Everson is an expert at escaping bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is almost ready to retire her hopes for a husband—and children—altogether.
But fate has other plans, and Cassie’s online dating profile catches the eye of firefighter Jett Bentley. In Jett’s memory, Cassie Everson is the unreachable girl-of-legend from their high school days. Nervously, he messages her, setting off a chain of events that forces a reluctant Cassie back into the dating game.
No one is more surprised than Cassie when her first date with Jett is a knockout. But when they both go home and find three children dropped in their laps—each—they independently decide to do the right and mature thing: hide the kids from each other while sorting it all out. What could go wrong?
Melissa Ferguson’s hilarious and warmhearted debut reminds us that love can come in very small packages—and that sometimes our best-laid plans aren’t nearly as rewarding and fun as the surprises that come our way.
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Excerpt
Star, as she was always so keenly aware, was nowhere to be seen.
For the past seven years she’d watched for the magic minute when the
girls left their schools and made their way to the Haven. At the window, at
2:15 p.m. every day, she’d waited for them to come. Like the rumblings of
thunder before a heavy storm, she and her staff would feel the anticipation,
the shake, before the magic minute struck. The sudden rush at the computer to
finish that report, to send that e-mail, to put the finishing touches on that
flyer. The dash to the coffee station for a refill, because it very well could
be the last calm moment for the rest of the day.
Often Cassie couldn’t stand it any longer and would step out the front
door with her fresh mug, beckoned by the distant sound of the final school
bell.
And oh, how they came. To passing cars, the steady stream of kids
walking along the sidewalk from the schools meant nothing more than keeping an
eye out for flying skateboards and mischievously tossed cans. But to Cassie it
was seeing the march of forty-eight flames, each licking the air with its own
spectacularly colored blaze.
Where was Star’s blaze at that minute?
How bright was the light she was giving off somewhere in that town of
Spartanburg, South Carolina?
Did whoever saw it appreciate it? Did they care?
Of everything that had happened that Christmas celebration morning, that
was the most painful part of all.
She hadn’t just lost the chance at being a mother. She’d lost a dear
friend as well.
Melissa Ferguson is an adjunct professor for Bible and religion at King University. She lives in the charming town of Bristol, Tennessee, with her husband, twin toddlers, and baby girl. She used to have hobbies like running and backpacking the Appalachian Trail outside her door. Now her hobbies include admiring the Appalachian Trail out her minivan window while singing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" en route to the library.
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