Christmas Stocking Sweethearts Series

Cowboys & Mistletoe Stocking Winner!

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Thanks to everyone who jumped in to play the little extra game we set up for our Christmas Stocking Sweethearts readers. The correct answers are:

Snowman: Holly In His Heart by Jo-Ann Roberts

Snowflake: Hear Harold’s Angel Sing by Winnie Griggs

Moon: Noelle’s Christmas Wish by Cheryl Pierson

Piano: Christmas Melody by Winnie Griggs

Fish: Merry’s Christmas Cowboy

Horse: Joy To the Cowboy by Pam Crooks

Shoe: A Child For Christmas by Kit Morgan

 

Seven of you got all 9 correct and by random draw the winner selected was:

Colleen Conklin

Congratulations Colleen. I’ll be in touch shortly.

Welcome Back to Day 5 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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POST 2 OF 2 FOR FRIDAY


Cathy McDavid’s Merry’s Christmas Cowboy

A widow struggling to save her home. A cowboy sworn to protect his family. A Christmas neither will ever forget…

Merry Ann Bright may be pint-sized, but she’s chock-full of gumption. For the last three years, she’s fended off a wealthy and greedy neighbor bent on acquiring her land by hook or by crook — emphasis on the crook. The last thing she needs is more trouble. But when she unexpectedly encounters a family in dire straits, how can she turn her back on them?

Thèo Cartier is a man on a mission. Once he’s seen his sister-in-law and young nephew safely home, he’ll return to Texas and help his aging father run the ranch. The lovely widow Merry is a distraction he can ill afford. Especially when her roots are firmly planted a thousand miles from his own.

Can Christmastime, the shared love of favorite carols, and a special heirloom stocking show two people convinced they have no future together that anything is possible…if they just open their hearts?

Purchase for 99¢ on AMAZON

 

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this afternoon.

“You pull a vintage silver locket from your stocking. Whose was it and whose picture is inside?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

And don’t forget, in addition to the other prizes we’re offering,
All entries will also be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize – a gorgeous quilt hand made by our very own Jo-Ann Roberts

 

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

Welcome to Day 5 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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Here are the Charms and clues for today, presented in no particular order:

I chose a music note to represent my story because until I fled for my safety, singing was both a pleasure and my career. I never imagined using my voice again, until a stranger shared his story and I learned I had the right to choose how to use my gift.

I chose a dog—specifically a sweet border collie—as my clue because of the distressing trouble haunting my beloved Christmas store. A handsome rancher who’s caught my  eye, then most decidedly my heart, loans me his guard dog, Zema, in hopes that will send the intruder packing.

 

When you’re ready to guess, you can log your responses AT THIS LINK.

DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.

 

POST 1 OF 2 FOR FRIDAY
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 8
Winnie Griggs’ 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.

Purchase for 99¢ on AMAZON

 

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this morning.

“Your stocking holds a ticket for two to your dream location. Where is it to and who would you take with you?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

 

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

 

 

Welcome Back to Day 4 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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POST 2 OF 2 FOR THURSDAY
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 7
Linda Broday’s Love Comes To Christmas

 

Joy and dreams are fleeting at best, but will a Christmas miracle happen in time?

 

Someone wants Gillian Everly to believe her beloved Christmas shop, the dream she built from nothing, is haunted. Strange events unsettle her, but she refuses to believe in ghosts. With her Christmas Eve piano performance approaching, she can’t afford distractions.

Enter Brett Love, a rugged local rancher who’s as intrigued by Gillian as he is determined to protect her. When he lends her one of his dogs for safety, it seems like the perfect fix, until the nightmare turns real.

A violent confrontation leaves Gillian’s hand maimed, her music performance in jeopardy, and Brett questioning the solitary life he’s always known. This Christmas, it will take more than faith to keep their dreams, and hearts, alive.

Purchase for 99¢ on AMAZON

 

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this afternoon.

“Inside your stocking is a postcard. Who sent it and where is it from?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

 

And don’t forget, in addition to the other prizes we’re offering,
All entries will also be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize – a gorgeous quilt hand made by our very own Jo-Ann Roberts

 

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

Welcome to Day 4 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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Here are the Charms and clues for today, presented in no particular order:

A rearing stallion is a charm that speaks of my story. In her letter to me tucked inside a Christmas stocking, Melody recalls the day I calmed a wild horse during my piano lesson. It proved to be then that my love for horses and being a cowboy began.

 

I chose a shoe to represent my story because there’s a Christmas dance in it that is quite meaningful.

 

When you’re ready to guess, you can log your responses AT THIS LINK.

DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.

 

POST 1 OF 2 FOR THURSDAY
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 6
Kit Morgan’s A Child For Christmas

 

A woman on the run. A man who doesn’t want to be found. And the child that brings them together…

 

Widow Abbey Harper has a choice to make. Either give up her baby girl to her deceased husband’s wealthy father and stay out of her life, or make a run for it. She chooses to run, and she does it as a mail-order bride! Anything’s better than giving up her precious child. But will she be going from the frying pan into the fire?

Wanting to forget his gunslinger past, Wyatt Reeves escapes to Apple Blossom, Montana where he hopes to make a fresh start. And boy, does he get one! The town preacher takes it upon himself to order him a mail-order bride, and she came with a baby! But what woman (let alone one with a baby) would want to saddle herself with the likes of him? Yet the more time he spends with the woman and her child, makes him wonder if he could be more than protection from the threat hunting them. Will two lonely hearts trying to protect a precious little find each other? Find out in this heartwarming western romance!

 Purchase for 99¢ on AMAZON

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this morning.

 “You find a hand-carved wooden heart with initials burned into it. Whose initials are they?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

 

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

 

Welcome Back to Day 3 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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POST 2 OF 2 FOR WEDNESDAY
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 5
Cheryl Pierson’s Noelle’s Christmas Wish

 

 

When her life is turned upside down by her aunt’s death, beautiful Noelle Cutler must leave Texas for Indian Territory, to live in her family-owned cattle ranch dynasty with a relative she barely knows. Noelle’s Christmas wish as she boards the stagecoach is something she’s yearned for the past several years. Now, with an uncertain world unfolding for her, would it be so much to wish for her very own true love this Christmas?

Texas Ranger Kellan Montgomery has a few wishes of his own. Traveling home to Indian Territory, he dreads what awaits him. An unplanned dinner with Noelle the night before they become fellow passengers aboard the northbound train leaves him imagining a different kind of future—one that’s completely opposite from the solitary life of a lawman.

But their newfound romance may come to a deadly end as two ruthless outlaws board the train—men Kellan put in prison. As Kellan and Noelle masquerade as a newlywed couple, their plan goes awry as the train is taken over by a gang of renegades. Danger explodes in a life-or-death situation, and their perilous deception becomes the catalyst for the flames of love to ignite in their desperate bid for survival.

But love is the only thing on Noelle’s Christmas wish list—and she is determined to make this dream come true for the future she envisions. Now that love has finally come, it’s up to her to make her own longing a reality. Can the magic of Christmas bring a miracle to two lonely people in these most unlikely circumstances?

Purchase for 99¢ on AMAZON

 

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this afternoon.

“You and your cowboy are snowed in at the ranch. You find a stocking stuffer that helps you pass the time.  What is it?”

And don’t forget, in addition to the other prizes we’re offering,
All entries will also be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize – a gorgeous quilt hand made by our very own Jo-Ann Roberts

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

Welcome to Day 3 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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Here are the Charms and clues for today, presented in no particular order:

I chose a piano to represent my story because it wasn’t until I gave a child in my household her first piano lessons that I found my true calling in life.

 

 

I chose a fish to represent my story because one day my entire life changed during a chance encounter while fishing in Twisty Creek.

 

When you’re ready to guess, you can log your responses AT THIS LINK.

DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.

 

POST 1 OF 2 FOR WEDNESDAY
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 4
Jo-Ann Roberts’ Holly In His Heart

 

Will a dose of Mother Nature’s magic and a bit of divine intervention make a little boy’s Christmas wish come true?

 

What is a boy to do when he is trying to play matchmaker for his father? Seven-year-old Danny Stone is working hard to help his lonely widower father find love again. When a pretty, new teacher moves to Angel Falls, Danny believes she is the perfect choice. But his matchmaking attempts have not been successful until a snowstorm hits and strands Miss Holly at their farm.

Fleeing an ill-fated relationship, Holly Ross accepts an interim teaching position in Angel Falls, Kansas. During the first week, she is knocked down by a stranger, and his rude behavior raises her annoyance when he insists he saved her life…not that she believed she needed saving. When she discovers Jesse Stone is the father of one of her students, she vows to give the man a wide berth. But when Danny leaves behind a scarf belonging to his late mother, she makes a decision that will alter her Christmas plans…and her life.

Since his wife’s passing, Jesse Stone has no interest nor the time for romance. With a herd, a ranch, and a seven-year-old son to raise, the last thing he needs is ungrateful criticism from a woman he saved from being hit by a wagon. His irritation grows when he discovers Holly Ross is the new teacher his son keeps praising…and the feeling is mutual. So, she is the last person he expects to see at his door at the start of a blizzard.
And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this morning.
“Your stocking contains a Christmas song lyric scribbled on a napkin. What’s the line and the title of the carol?”
You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!
ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

Welcome Back to Day 2 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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POST 2 OF 2 FOR TUESDAY


CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 3
Sarah Lamb’s Away In Deepwater

 

She had the perfect life, until it wasn’t. He’s hiding to forget. Heartbreak can’t heal twice—can it?

Trying to escape a scandal, Samantha Lundy, a talented singer with the voice of an angel, moves to Deepwater. It is her hope this tiny town in the middle of nowhere will both heal and hide her. Determined never to love or sing again so she can forget her past, she plans to become a recluse.

Dirk Schmit is surprised when a package is delivered to his print shop. Upon opening it, he sees it is actually intended for the woman who just moved next door. Curious to meet her, he brings her the package and is stunned to find the very thing he doesn’t believe in happens, does. Love at first sight. But Dirk refuses to be more than friendly—heartbreak can’t heal twice.

Samantha wants nothing to do with Dirk or anyone else, but as the inhabitants of Deepwater are determined to make her feel welcome, her icy interior thaws. When an opportunity to use her talents to help arise, Samantha wonders if perhaps she can find her voice again.

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And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this afternoon.

 “There’s a ticket stub in your stocking from a magical date. Where did you go—and what made it unforgettable?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

 

Welcome to Day 2 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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Here are the Charms and clues for today, presented in no particular order:

 

I chose a snowflake to represent my story because snowflakes play a key role in a symbolic way. When I was a child, I stammered. I was very self-conscious about it, but Miss Melody told me voices are like snowflakes—each one is unique and beautiful in its own way, just like every person is. I held those words of encouragement  close to my heart and then passed them on to a hurting little girl who came into my life unexpectedly.

 

I chose the moon to represent my story because there’s a recurring theme between the Kellan and me. The moon represents happiness, wholeness, and the two of us wanting to give each other every good thing in life now that it is finally within our reach. We know that running a large ranch in an untamed territory will take a lot of work, but also a lot of understanding and love to be successful.

 

When you’re ready to guess, you can log your responses AT THIS LINK.

DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.

 

POST 1 OF 2 FOR TUESDAY


Christmas Stocking Sweethearts Book 2
Pam Crooks’ Joy to the Cowboy

She was sunshine. He was clouds.  Until a sprig of mistletoe changed everything.

Griff Marcello must live with the shame of the crime he once committed for his mobster father.  As he grows into a man, he’s found security as a cowboy living in Glory Hill, Nebraska, but the memory of his sin never leaves him.

Joyanna Hollinger is devoted to the community of Glory Hill, and with Christmas approaching, her plans for a special Christmas Eve service consumes her. All her efforts are falling into place–until she loses a key part of the celebration.

When Griff receives an unexpected gift from his former piano teacher, he never thinks her kindness will fill him with the spirit of Christmas, even when Joyanna needs him most.

Could the simplicity of a hand-stitched stocking and the Christmas carol tucked within chase away the clouds in his heart and warm him from the sunshine of Joyanna’s love?

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And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for this morning.

“There’s a cinnamon-scented candle in your stocking. What memory does it bring back?”

You could win a $10 Amazon gift card or our Grand Prize quilt!

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th

Welcome to Day 1 of Cowboys & Mistletoe (Week 1)

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our Cowboys & Mistletoes celebration! This year, we’re again spreading our celebration over two weeks instead of one. For this first week, we’re thrilled to reintroduce our Christmas Stocking Sweethearts series, which we have on 99 cent sale for a limited time, specifically for this event.

If you’re not already familiar with these books here’s a little bit about the series: The connecting thread is that the hero or heroine of each book is a former student of the same piano teacher, Melody Nightingale. At the opening of each book, the hero or heroine receives a package from Melody containing a very personal, handcrafted Christmas stocking and a letter written on the back of the sheet music for a Christmas carol.

This week we’ll be playing TWO games, the first one  is a guessing game where we provide you with the image of a charm and a clue, presented from the perspective of the hero or heroine, and you get to guess which of the nine books that charm goes with. This game will have one winner, randomly selected from those who make the most correct guesses. The prize is a Christmas stocking decorated with all nine of the charms/tokens/pins.

The second game we’re calling  “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking?” It’s easy-peasy and simply involves you answering the question you’ll find at the bottom of each post. A winner of a $10 Amazon gift card will be randomly selected from among the respondents of each post (9 total)

Here is the first Charm and clue, presented in no particular order:

I chose the snowman with a Christmas scarf around his neck because when one of my students leaves a scarf belonging to his late mother, I make a decision that will alter my Christmas plans…and my life. Little did I know I’d be stranded with the boy and his father until the storm passed

When you’re ready to guess, you can log your response AT THIS LINK.

DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.

 

CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 1
Winnie Griggs’ Christmas Melody

 

CHRISTMAS MELODY kicks things off with a story that not only introduces Melody, but gives us a peek into who the characters in the other books were as children.

Stitching melodies of love, one stocking at a time

In 1854 Nightingale, Texas, nineteen-year-old Melody Nightingale feels trapped by her family’s expectations. As the only daughter of the town’s founding family, she’s expected to make an advantageous marriage and take her place in society. Instead of attending the endless round of tea parties, Melody longs to share her love of music with others. She also has no interest in the eligible suitors her mother parades before her, she’d much rather discuss her favorite books with shopkeeper John Hartley.

When she discovers her housekeeper’s daughter secretly playing the piano, Melody makes an impulsive decision to give the child lessons—a choice that defies the strict social boundaries of her time. And in doing so she helps shy young Zoe find her confidence through music.

Melody realizes she’s finally found her own path, one that leads far from her family’s carefully laid plans. Ignoring her parents’ disapproval, she becomes the town’s piano teacher. It’s a calling that she pursues with great enjoyment and passion, eventually touching the lives of hundreds of students. And perhaps even that kind-hearted shopkeeper…

This heartwarming story of love, music, and finding one’s true path launches the Christmas Stocking Sweethearts

 

And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for today. It’s meant to be fun, so use your imagination but don’t overthink it 🙂

“You reach into your stocking and pull out a key. What does it unlock?”

And don’t forget, in addition to the other prizes we’re offering,
All entries will also be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize – a gorgeous quilt hand made by our very own Jo-Ann Roberts

ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th