I hope you’re enjoying these books as much as we enjoyed writing them. When we started working on this series we each picked a Christmas carol as a theme or inspiration for our story. As I was looking through a list of Christmas carols to inspire me I came across “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!” and I immediately pictured the premise of my story – a little girl with a nickname of Angel who had stopped speaking due to a tragedy and her guardian’s dearest Christmas wish was to hear her speak again. And thus Hear Harold’s Angel Sing was born!
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book #8!
HEAR HAROLD’S ANGEL SING
One silent child. Two lonely hearts. Three lives changed by a Texas Christmas.
Emma Garland has worked hard to rebuild her life and reputation after a very public, painful rejection years ago. Now Crossvine’s respected piano teacher, she’s content with her quiet life—until the day she confronts Marshal Harold Winters about keeping his traumatized, silent niece in his office near the jail cells while he works.
Despite some misgivings, Emma agrees to help care for Lucy while the marshal’s housekeeper is away. Her own childhood struggles with a stammer help her understand Lucy’s pain, but Emma is determined to maintain professional distance. She knows all too well how quickly a woman of her status can become the subject of town gossip.
When Emma receives a beautiful handmade Christmas stocking from her former piano teacher, its message that “Music Speaks” touches something deep within her. As she, Lucy, and Harold work together decorating for Christmas, she finds her carefully constructed walls crumbling. But with long-buried secrets threatening their growing bond, Emma must decide if the promise of love is worth risking her heart again.
Yes, we know. It’s that time of year when we sometimes feel less kind than we should.
Re-write the sentence in red to something less naughty and more nice. For example:
NAUGHTY: “Grandma’s eggnog is too thick and chunky.”
NICE: “Isn’t it wonderful Grandma is still with us to make her eggnog?”
THERE ARE TOO MANY GIFTS TO WRAP!
You might win this piano ornament that plays
Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
All entries will be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize, too!
Winners announced Sunday, December 15!
(USA Winners only, please.)
Winnie Griggs is the author of Historical (and occasionally Contemporary) romances that focus on Small Towns, Big Hearts, Amazing Grace. She is also a list maker, a lover of dragonflies and holds an advanced degree in the art of procrastination.
Three of Winnie’s books have been nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and one of those nominations resulted in a win.
Winnie loves to hear from readers. You can connect with her on facebook at www.facebook.com/WinnieGriggs.Author or email her at winnie@winniegriggs.com.
It will be a wonderful Christmas this year for the kids–I have so many gifts to wrap.
Thank you, Lord, for this bounty of gifts I’m wrapping to share with my family and friends.
I am so happy I am able to have so many gifts to wrap for the poor children this year.
I have been blessed with being able to wrap so many gifts for everyone to enjoy and share in the wondrous world of Christmas!
I love being able to wrap all these great gifts.
Oh the joy on families faces.
It may seem like there are too many gifts too wrap, but I am just so very thankful I am able to wrap any gifts at all. Always be thankful for what you have and never complain and just think of the joy it will bring to others.
What fun to wrap all these gifts! We are blessed this Christmas!
Winnie, I’m on this story now! Loving this series ladies! What a treat to read these Christmas stories!
So verry happy to hear you’re enjoying the series! Thanks for you enthusiasm
I have so many friends and family that I have gifts galore to wrap.
I am thankful that the Lord has blessed me with enough to share with others even if it means I have extra gifts to wrap.
We are blessed to have so many gifts to wrap this year!
There are so many gifts to wrap!! It’s a good thing I can buy gift bags in so many different varieties!!
I am thankful for so many gifts to give this year and the bags come in so many different sizes make life easier.
Love that there are so many gifts this year for everyone.
ohh look at all the beautifully wrapped gifts.
THERE ARE TOO MANY GIFTS TO WRAP! How lucky we are to get to enjoy these gifts from loved ones!
ohh look at all the beautifully wrapped gifts. So much joy and happiness.
I am so happy to have all this help volunteering to assist in wrapping our Christmas gifts.
My family and friends will have so much fun unwrapping all these presents I bought!
I love this time of year when the entire celebrates Christmas at Grandma’s house all 14 of us together. There are lots of wonderful gifts to wrap in so many colors of bows and paper. I love to be the one that helps Grndma wrap all the gifts, of course except mine. We talk about each special gift that she made for each person. Wrapping all those gifts gives me so much time to spend alone and talk with Grandma. What a lovely array of colored gifts we have to put under her tree and memories I will always remember.
I am so thankful we are able to bless so many with all these gifts, now to just wrap them.
I am so blessed to be able to afford so many gifts for my family and friends. And this nice wrapping paper and ribbons I bought are so pretty, they’re a delight to work with!
I really enjoy wrapping gifts and so glad I have so many to wrap.
I love to wrap gifts! It is so much fun! Are you sure that there aren’t more to wrap?
We are so blessed to have these many gifts under the tree. Let’s share some with others this season.
Isn’t it wonderful that I have so many people in my life that I can treat with a gift?
We are blessed to have so many gifts to wrap this year, and I love wrapping presents.
There are so many gifts to wrap and so many to enjoy them.
Wrapping gifts gives me great pleasure and giving presents is wonderful.
We are so blessed to be able to buy gifts to wrap and give to others.
We’re blessed to have so many gifts to wrap this year after having a meagre Christmas last year.
There are a lot of gifts to wrap this year! Good thing Christmas is still a few weeks away so I don’t have to do it all at one time!
I am so thankful for the many blessings these gifts will give.
There are too many gifts to wrap. Thankfully I have lots of gift bags to speed the wrapping and still look pretty.
There are too many gifts to wrap,good thing we can put some of them in the stockings!
I’m so thankful that I have many gifts to wrap for family and friends.
What a joy it will be to see my grandchildren’s faces when they open all these gifts I am wrapping for them.
Your book sounds like a Great read and I Love the book cover.
Thank you so much!
I am enjoying wrapping gifts to many whom will have a great surprise.
I love gift bags… so easy to pack up presents.
THERE ARE TOO MANY GIFTS TO WRAP!
I am grateful that I have so many family and friends to wrap Christmas gifts for!
The hospital kids are enjoying unwrapping their mountain of gifts
So many gifts to wrap, what a blessing!
I’m so blessed to be gifting so much to my family and friends.
Isn’t it so wonderful to have so many gifts to wrap this year for family and friends!
It’s so nice there are too many gifts to wrap this year.
Wow, all that overtime has really paid off. Look how many gifts we have to wrap!
Wrapping the many gifts is part of the pleasure of the holiday season.
You folks are so good at this! I’m enjoying reading all of your responses. And isn’t it wonderful to be able to look at things from a more positive perspective
We are so blessed to be able to give so many gifts to our family and friends. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you.
And you as well!
I love having lots of gifts to wrap and giving them to others.
Thank you for the chance to win a prize. Looking forward to reading this series.
You are quite welcome
Wrapping so many gifts at Christmastime feels right in my soul because it means I find joy in giving.
Isn’t it wonderful that they have so many pretty Christmas bags that you can put your abundance of gifts in?
I had to get the crew together to help wrap all the donations we received for the children’s center. We had so much fun matching names and ages to gifts!
We’re so lucky to be able to get all these gifts for the family and will have fun opening them on Christmas morning.
Look at all the people I’ll make smile & happy with so many gifts to wrap!!
(P.S. I love wrapping presents, it’s my favorite part of Christmas)
I finished getting everyone something on my list this year.
Isn’t it wonderful, there are almost too many gifts to wrap for all the families impacted by the flood.
My Christmas tradition is to come home from Christmas eve service, watch Christmas movies, & wrap gifts … & wrap… &wrap some more!… just make sure I have enough scotch tape
You folks are surely blessing me with your inspirational posts
I love wrapping all of these gifts with so many different papers and bows.
There are so many presents to wrap that I can’t wait to use the pretty new Christmas paper to wrap them with!
We are so blessed….some people have nothing under their tree
I’m having so much fun imagining the joy that these gifts will bring! Wish I had some more to wrap!!