(White Pine Island Novellas #1 & #2)
by Amie Denman & May Williams
by Amie Denman & May Williams
Adult Contemporary Romance, Christmas
ebook, 179 pages
October 1st 2016Welcome to White Pine Island! Just a few miles off the coast of Georgia, this island is accessible only by boat, plane, and your imagination. Many residents call the island home year-round, but day visitors and tourists bring plenty of excitement with them. Like other resort islands, there are quaint shops, cool restaurants, and friendly bars. There are several resorts on the island, but the queen of them all is the elegant Grand Hotel on a bluff with an ocean view. Owned by the extensive, multi-generational Phillips family, the Grand Hotel offers elegant service, five course dinners, and plenty of romance.
Ned & Bethany by May Williams
Sometimes the heart hits a hole in one…
Bethany Hinkle arrives at White Pine Island’s Grand Hotel for her sister’s wedding and to do a little environmental snooping. She snaps pictures of the hotel’s pristine golf course to ensure its compliance with EPA standards. Soon, she realizes that the course’s manager is as attractive as the course he so carefully protects.
Ned Phillips feels the weight of family expectations squarely on his broad shoulders. The Phillips Family has owned and operated the Grand Hotel for three generations. For now, he manages the hotel’s golf course and makes plans for its future—plans that could be destroyed by Bethany’s spying. He gets close to the lovely environmentalist to watch for her next move until he gets too close to let her go.
Ellen & Pete by Amie Denman
What happens when you fall in love with your best friend just when it’s too late?
All her life, Ellen Phillips has loved working for her family’s Grand Hotel on White Pine Island. Flying the hotel’s airplane and piloting the island ferryboat while knowing someday she will inherit the luxurious resort is a fairy tale existence she has no desire to change. She’s always loved Pete McCormack, too. After all, he’s her best friend, confidante, and playmate. Until she suddenly sees him in a different light just before Christmas.
Pete McCormack has made sacrifices for his family’s golf cart rental business on the island, choosing to stay home and run it instead of pursuing his dream of his own career on the mainland. When his parents announce their plans to sell the business so Pete can leave the island, he has to choose between the future he thought he always wanted and his newfound love for the woman he would be leaving behind.
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Christmas Away from Home
Waking up on Christmas morning at
home and padding downstairs to see what’s under the tree by the fireplace is
priceless. However, I’ve had quite a few joyous holidays on the road. If you
love over-the-top decorations, fine food, and none of the worries of having
company coming over, you may love Christmas in an elegant hotel.
My first Christmas away from home
was on my honeymoon. My husband and I married in December and took a trip over
the holidays to Key West, Florida. I used many of the experiences from that
trip in one of my first beach books Blue
Bottle Beach. Is there any place more unique than Key West? We stayed in an
elegant hotel, and I remember thinking how strange it was to hear Christmas
music while wearing sandals and beachwear. I’m from the snowy Midwest where
Christmas apparel is flannel. And more flannel.
One of the most beautiful places
I’ve seen at Christmastime is the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.
If you ever have the chance to see that amazing home built by a man for his new
wife (how romantic!), you should go during the holidays. There is a candlelit
tour, and the entire mansion sparkles with decorations.
Because I have family in Orlando,
I’ve spent the Christmas and New Year’s holidays enjoying the Disney parks and
hotels many times. No one can have any doubt that Disney knows how to
celebrate. The ornate trees and garlands in the theme parks are larger than
life, and the hotels are beautifully decorated. One of their hotels has a
carousel made of gingerbread and chocolate, and another has a life-sized house
made of gingerbread. It’s magical.
Perhaps my favorite memory of
traveling at Christmastime was something you might not expect. My husband and I
took our sons to Washington, DC, for a long weekend. We saw the National
Christmas Tree on the Capitol grounds, the train display in front of the White
House, and we even ice-skated on a temporary pond in front of the National
Archives building.
In Christmas at the Grand Hotel, some of the characters are year-round
residents of the island and some are there for a special holiday, but all of
them have a Christmas they’ll never forget.
— Amie
Amie Denman lives in Ohio with her husband, sons, cats, and dog. When she's not reading or writing, she enjoys walking and playing outside. Born with an overdeveloped sense of curiosity, she's been known to chase fire trucks on her bicycle just to see what's going on. Amie believes that everything is fun: especially roller coasters, wedding cake, and falling in love.
May Williams is convinced that she read every book in the public library of her hometown as a kid. Today, her house sags under the weight of books. If she’s not reading or writing, May can be found pursuing her other two passions – sewing and running. May lives happily in a little town on the shores of Lake Erie with her husband, two children, three cats, and one oversized dog.
Tour Schedule
October 16th: Launch
October 17th: Katie's Clean Book Collection & Book Lover in Florida
October 18th: Nicole's Book Musings & The Silver Dagger Scriptorium
October 19th: Falling Leaves & Letters from Annie (Douglass) Lima
October 20th: underneath the covers & Beck Valley Books
October 21st: Brooke Blogs & Teatime and Books
October 23rd: Grand Finale
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