Hi lovelies! It gives me
great pleasure today to host Charlotte Hubbard and her new book, “Weddings at
Promise Lodge”! For other stops on her
Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of
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Weddings at Promise Lodge
by Charlotte Hubbard
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GENRE: Inspirational (Romance)
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BLURB:
When
Bishop Monroe is forced to confess the truth about his relationship with young
Leola before the entire congregation, he can only pray that open hearts and
minds will allow him a future at Promise Lodge—with Christine.
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EXCERPT ONE:
As
Christine Hershberger sat on the front pew bench, close enough to bask in the
glow of her sister Mattie’s joy, she smiled brightly. At long last, she was
attending the wedding that should’ve taken place years ago, when Mattie Bender
and Amos Troyer were young and so deeply in love¬—before Dat had insisted that
Mattie marry Marvin Schwartz instead. Now that Mattie and Preacher Amos had
outlived their original mates, they were standing together, hand in hand,
repeating the age-old vows after their new bishop, Monroe Burkholder.
Christine, who’d lost her husband a couple of years ago, found it encouraging
that at forty-five and fifty, her older sister and Amos had taken up where
their youthful romance had left off, to enjoy a second chance at love that
would see them through the rest of their lives.
Beside
her on the bench, Rosetta grabbed Christine’s hand and squeezed it. This is so
exciting! she mouthed.
Christine
nodded, returning her younger sister’s squeeze. She had to admit, however, that
the glimmer in Bishop Monroe’s green eyes eclipsed the happiness she felt for
Mattie and Amos. Was it her imagination, or did Monroe glance at her as he led
the happy couple in their vows, as though he hoped to be exchanging these
sacred, binding phrases with her in the near future?
It
was too soon to contemplate a wedding—the handsome bishop had only arrived at
Promise Lodge a week and a half ago, on Christmas Eve. Yet Christine’s pulse
thrummed with the distinct possibility that widowed Monroe Burkholder was as
attracted to her as she was to him. Her soul took on the sparkle of the snowy,
sunlit hills outside. Hope blossomed in her heart, because it felt absolutely
wonderful to believe that such a prosperous, upstanding man might be interested
in becoming her husband.
“Amos
and Mattie,” Monroe said, his resonant voice filling the room, “I pronounce you
husband and wife.”
The
wedding guests sprang to their feet, their applause resounding like thunder in
the lodge’s large meeting room. Mattie blushed prettily as Amos turned her to
face the crowd. When he slung his arm around her to kiss her, a loud whoop went
up from the men’s side.
Rosetta
laughed, linking her arm through Christine’s. “And they’ll live happily ever
after,” she said wistfully. “Maybe there’s hope for us, sister.”
Christine
nodded toward Truman Wickey, their neighbor, who—along with Allen Troyer—had
been Preacher Amos’s sidesitter. “Here comes your hope as we speak, Rosetta,”
she said. “Now that our new bishop has performed his first wedding at Promise Lodge,
it’s a gut time to ask his feelings about an Amish woman hitching up with a
Mennonite.”
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AUTHOR BIO:
Many
moons ago—like, in 1983 while she was still a school librarian—Charlotte Hubbard sold
her first story to True Story. This launched her into writing around seventy of
those “true confessions” stories over the years, and she’s been a slave to her
overactive imagination ever since. Over the course of her writing career, she
has sold nearly 50 books—most recently, Amish romance series she’s written as Charlotte
Hubbard or Naomi King.
Charlotte
lived in Missouri for most of her life, so her Amish stories are set in
imaginary Missouri towns. These days she lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband
of 40+ years and their Border collie, Vera.
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Charlotte ~ It is great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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