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With record cold temperatures right now, this is the perfect theme for this January day.
January’s theme is Baby, It’s cold outside. The cold wintry excerpt below is from my
western romance novel, When Love Comes
Knocking
A lonely widow…an
indiscretion…a gift for redemption
Excerpt:
It was a relief to get inside
the warm house. Gil set the basket by the door and helped Penelope remove her
coat. The coat was one of Evan’s old ones. She must have tailored it to fit
her. Why didn’t she have a coat? The sorry answer came to him quickly enough;
Evan spent the money on gambling. He hung his coat on the wooden peg by the
door and stared at the two coats hanging there together, and for a moment, got
lost in a daydream. If only her coat was
always next to mine. He shook the thought quickly from his mind.
“I brought some wood with
me, but I’ll chop more for you when we finish this pie and coffee. I see you’re
running low.” He took a chair at the old table that wobbled and gazed out the
window at the gathering storm. “Looks like more bad weather coming in.”
Penelope poured him a cup of
coffee and added a generous slice of pie onto a chipped pink plate. “I
appreciate all the help you’ve been. I wish I could do more for you than mend
and wash your clothes.” She sat opposite from him and sipped on her coffee.
“No need for that. You do
enough—more than enough. I don’t like to see you out in this weather hanging up
clothes. You risk frostbite and the clothes freeze on the line.” He grinned as
he prepared to tell her his plan.
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