We are excited to introduce Deborah Raney's new series with a blog tour and giveaway for book #1 - Reason to Breathe - hosted by JustRead Tours.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Reason to Breathe
Series: Chandler Sisters #1
Author: Deborah Raney
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction/Romance
Phylicia thought life was passing her by, but maybe this was love’s plan all along. . .
At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck—until her father’s protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business opportunity to purchase a trio of cottages just outside of Langhorne, Missouri. Joanna and Britt are convinced the three of them should launch a vacation rental venture, but Phylicia remains skeptical.
To complicate matters, Quinn soon finds himself falling hard for Phylicia. But how can he pursue this beautiful, talented woman twelve years his junior when she’s still reeling over her father’s hasty engagement to a younger woman? Quinn is determined to give Phylicia her happily-ever-after. But first, he must help her come to terms with her discovery of long-held family secrets and persuade her that true love can transcend their differences.
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EXCERPT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“Actually, I’m going to be staying
here in Florida—”
“Staying? How much longer, Daddy?”
Britt had put on that infernal smile she always wore when she talked to her
“daddy.”
This time the silence on Dad’s end
went on so long, Phee thought they’d lost the connection. But finally, he
spoke. “Girls, I’m going to stay ... a while. Indefinitely actually. I’ve taken
an apartment here.”
“Taken? You mean like rented?” Phee scooted her chair closer
to the table, as if by accosting the phone, she could change his mind. “Dad?
What is going on?”
“I can’t explain everything right
now.” His voice sounded odd. “I’m still fleshing out some details. You girls
don’t know this, but ... I’ve been working on a deal down here for a while.”
“A deal? What is the nature of this
deal exactly?” Joanna kicked into lawyer mode. She worked as an administrative
assistant for an attorney in town, but she’d actually just started law school
in Columbia when Mom was diagnosed. Like Britt, Jo had quit school and moved
back to Cape at the end of her first semester. Her career might have been
temporarily derailed, but that didn’t stop her from speaking like a full-blown
attorney.
“I’m going to be putting the house
on the market.”
Dad’s announcement brought them all
to their feet. “What?”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DEBORAH RANEY dreamed of writing a book since the summer she read Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and discovered that a Kansas farm girl could, indeed, grow up to be a writer. Her 30-plus books have garnered multiple industry awards including the RITA® Award, HOLT Medallion, National Readers' Choice Award, Carol Award, and have three times been Christy Award finalists. Her first novel, A Vow to Cherish, shed light on the ravages of Alzheimer's disease and inspired the highly acclaimed World Wide Pictures film of the same title. A Vow to Cherish continues to be a tool for Alzheimer's families and caregivers. Deborah is on faculty for several national writers' conferences and serves on the executive board of the 2600-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization. She and her husband, Ken Raney, traded small-town life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deb's novels—for life in the city of Wichita. They often travel to teach at writers conferences across the country and to visit their four children and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.
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TOUR GIVEAWAY
(1) winner will receive (US only):
- a print copy of Reason to Breathe
- $15 Amazon gift card
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