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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…
Enjoy an 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.”
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A Baby for Easter will be offered at a special release price of $.99 through Easter day! Regularly priced at $2.99.Noelle will award the following prizes via the Rafflecopter at the end of the tour:
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* Ten winners will receive their choice of ebook of any title from Noelle’s backlist.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 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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