Spotlight & Giveaway: The Christmas Wish by Sharon Sala

Posted September 17th, 2021 by in Blog, Spotlight / 33 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Sharon Sala’s new release: The Christmas Wish

 

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala delivers her first holiday romance in the Blessings, Georgia series

 
Wade Montgomery’s back in Blessings, Georgia just in time for the holidays to help rebuild after a disaster nearly destroyed his family’s business.
 
But once he lays eyes on his old friend Birdie Knox, he can’t stop thinking about calling Blessings home again…this time forever.
 
Fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Mason will feel right at home in this emotional holiday love story:
• Uplifting second chance romance
• Tight-knit small-town community
• Characters that jump off the page
• Heartwarming Christmas spirit
• Authentic Southern setting

 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from The Christmas Wish 

Two weeks later, they were sitting in Granny’s Country Kitchen, waiting for the waitress to bring them their ticket for the meal they’d just eaten. What had taken six months to begin between them had gone into full bloom in two weeks, and it showed.
People in Blessings were starting to talk about Wade and Birdie—Birdie and Wade, but Peanut and Ruby Butterman were the first to ask, when they stopped at their table to say hello.
“Hey! I’m sure seeing a lot of you two together these days. Is there something going on here that I don’t know about?” Ruby asked.
Wade grinned. “Now, Ruby…you always know what’s going on in Blessings before it happens.”
Ruby shrugged. “It’s not my fault. Sitting in a chair at a hair salon is almost the same as being in a confessional, but you haven’t confessed a thing, and I’m asking… Are you two—”
“Girl, let them be,” Peanut said, and tried to steer Ruby toward the exit.
“Oh, it’s okay,” Bridgette said. “We are doing our best to become ‘something,’ but not before Wade dared me to stop pretending I didn’t know he existed.”
“I was getting desperate,” Wade said.
Peanut glanced at his wife, remembering their own journey and the struggle it took to get where they were today.
“I know the feeling. I’ve been there. And now that Ruby has satisfied her curiosity, we’re getting out of your hair,” Peanut said.
Ruby winked, and then they were gone.
Wade eyed the rosy flush on Bridgette’s cheeks.
“So we’re working on something, are we?”
“That’s how I see it,” Bridgette said.
“Then what else can I do to make that something become our thing?” he asked.
“Make love to me.”
Wade felt like he’d been punched in the gut. He pulled a handful of bills out of his pocket, tossed them down onto the table, and got up.
Bridgette grasped his hand, holding on tight as he pulled her through the dining room and out into the night.
“My place or yours?” he asked, as Bridgette reached for her seatbelt.
“Mine is closer,” she said.
Wade drove out of the parking lot and headed across town. He’d been dreaming of this for so long he had the scenario down pat, and then Bridgette up and knocked him off his feet.
When he pulled up into the parking lot at the Cherrystone Apartments, he was seriously glad hers was on the first floor, because his legs were shaking too much to climb stairs.
She got out of the car holding the key and, with his hand on her back, unlocked the door into the foyer.
A long hallway ran the lower length of the building, and a set of stairs beside it led to the second floor. Her apartment was the last one on the left at the end of the hall.
Wade glanced down at her as they walked, marveling at the calm on her face. He felt like a lit fuse.
Once inside her place, they abandoned their coats on the sofa and moved toward her bedroom. It was the calmest approach to coming undone that Wade had ever experienced, and it felt right.
But once inside, the bed might as well have had flashing red lights, because it was the only thing he saw—until Bridgette began taking off her clothes, and then all he could see was the beautiful woman who’d stolen his heart.
He stripped as she turned back the bed, and then they were lying on their sides, face-to-face. He slid his hand over her belly, up across the mounds of her breasts to the curve of her cheek, then leaned over and kissed her.
“I don’t have words for how much I love you,” he said.
Bridgette sighed. “Then show me. I ache from the want of you. Make love to me, Wade.”
And so he did, tracing the shape of her with his hands, and then his lips, finding the places on her body that made her breath catch and feeling the rapid rising of her pulse beneath his fingertips. And then, with all the grace and restraint he could muster, sliding inside her as she wrapped her legs around his waist—keeping time with the rise and fall of her body as she met him thrust for thrust, until all of their restraint was gone.
Wade went deeper, faster, winding her up so tight she finally broke, leaving him one step behind as he shattered within her embrace.
The next level of “them” had just happened, and it was perfect.

Excerpted from The Christmas Wish by Sharon Sala. © 2021 by Sharon Sala. Used with permission of the publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. All rights reserved.

Excerpt. ©Sharon Sala. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.

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Meet the Author:

Sharon Sala has 127 books and novellas in print, in Romance, Young Adult, Western, Fiction, and Women’s Fiction. First published in 1991, she’s an eight-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, five-time Career Achievement winner from RT Magazine, five time winner of the National Reader’s Choice Award, and five time winner of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence, winner of the Heart of Excellence Award, as well as winner of the Booksellers Best Award. In 2011 she was named RWA’s recipient of the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 Romance Writers of America presented her with the Centennial Award for recognition of her 100th published novel. Her books are New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestsellers.
 
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33 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: The Christmas Wish by Sharon Sala”

  1. Diana Hardt

    Nice cover. I liked the blurb and excerpt. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.

  9. maycarlson6848gmailcom

    The excerpt has got me all hot and bothered, very steamy read. Thanks I need this book.

    • Shannon Capelle

      I love second chance romances and Christmas with it sounds like a romantic book. I really enjoyed the excerpt it was so so good!

  16. Tina R

    I love second chance romance with a small-town setting, and this sounds like a story I’d enjoy. Thanks for sharing the excerpt.

  19. eawells

    I loved the excerpt and can’t wait to read this one. I’ve read a few in the series and they’ve all been great.

  29. Patricia B.

    Thank you for the excerpt. When both parties are ready, they will know when it is time to take a relationship to the next level. We don’t know the build up to this point, but it was obviously that time. It sounds like it good book.