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The Promise of Spring
Von Cecilia Gray
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- Cecilia Gray
- Freigegeben:
- Dec 1, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781938268298
- Format:
- Buch
Beschreibung
Every Easter in Heartfield comes with its own miracle… literally. Kathia, paranormal investigator extraordinaire, is out to prove her hometown abbey is a bona fide miracle site—even if its sexy owner-slash-handyman, Henry, is dead set against it. Kathia and Henry square off to settle a score that's been brewing between them since high school. Will they reconnect in time for an Easter miracle?
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Meet the Small Town Janes…six amazing women ready to follow their dreams and fall in love. Each seasonal novella is a modern retelling of a beloved Jane Austen novel.
Book 1: All I Want For Christmas (Emma—Christmas)
Book 2: The Promise of Spring (Northanger Abbey—Easter)
Book 3: The Heart of Autumn (Sense and Sensibility—Halloween)
Book 4: I Got That Summer Feeling (Mansfield Park—Summer)
Book 5: Beneath A Harvest Moon (Persuasion—Thanksgiving)
Book 6: Be Mine, Valentine (Pride and Prejudice—Valentine's Day)
Can't get enough of Jane Austen retellings? The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school, complete with a reader's discussion guide for your book club, student group, or Jane Austen fan club.
Book 1: Fall For You (Lizzie—Pride and Prejudice)
Book 2: So Into You (Ellie—Sense and Sensibility)
Book 3: When I'm With You (Kat—Northanger Abbey)
Book 4: Suddenly You (Fanny—Mansfield Park)
Book 5: Only With You (Emma—Emma)
Book 6: Always You (Anne—Persuasion)
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PRAISE FOR SMALL TOWN JANE
Swoon-worthy! —Angela, Goodreads
Very romantic and sweet. —Maria, Goodreads
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cecilia Gray writes stories about first love, second chances, and forever friendships. If you enjoy inconsistent updates, unpredictable sneak peeks and the occasional giveaway, please consider subscribing to her newsletter.
Informationen über das Buch
The Promise of Spring
Von Cecilia Gray
Beschreibung
Every Easter in Heartfield comes with its own miracle… literally. Kathia, paranormal investigator extraordinaire, is out to prove her hometown abbey is a bona fide miracle site—even if its sexy owner-slash-handyman, Henry, is dead set against it. Kathia and Henry square off to settle a score that's been brewing between them since high school. Will they reconnect in time for an Easter miracle?
* * *
Meet the Small Town Janes…six amazing women ready to follow their dreams and fall in love. Each seasonal novella is a modern retelling of a beloved Jane Austen novel.
Book 1: All I Want For Christmas (Emma—Christmas)
Book 2: The Promise of Spring (Northanger Abbey—Easter)
Book 3: The Heart of Autumn (Sense and Sensibility—Halloween)
Book 4: I Got That Summer Feeling (Mansfield Park—Summer)
Book 5: Beneath A Harvest Moon (Persuasion—Thanksgiving)
Book 6: Be Mine, Valentine (Pride and Prejudice—Valentine's Day)
Can't get enough of Jane Austen retellings? The Jane Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a beachside California boarding school, complete with a reader's discussion guide for your book club, student group, or Jane Austen fan club.
Book 1: Fall For You (Lizzie—Pride and Prejudice)
Book 2: So Into You (Ellie—Sense and Sensibility)
Book 3: When I'm With You (Kat—Northanger Abbey)
Book 4: Suddenly You (Fanny—Mansfield Park)
Book 5: Only With You (Emma—Emma)
Book 6: Always You (Anne—Persuasion)
* * *
PRAISE FOR SMALL TOWN JANE
Swoon-worthy! —Angela, Goodreads
Very romantic and sweet. —Maria, Goodreads
* * *
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cecilia Gray writes stories about first love, second chances, and forever friendships. If you enjoy inconsistent updates, unpredictable sneak peeks and the occasional giveaway, please consider subscribing to her newsletter.
- Herausgeber:
- Cecilia Gray
- Freigegeben:
- Dec 1, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781938268298
- Format:
- Buch
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The Promise of Spring - Cecilia Gray
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Praise for Cecilia Gray’s Novels
Absorbing... refreshing... commendable.
—Kirkus Reviews
A compelling mix of action, drama and love.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Four Stars!
—San Francisco Book Review
Gray’s characters are so full of life, hope and dreams, it’s a pleasure to read about them.
—Schenni’s Book Nook
This series is definitely worth reading.
—A Whisper of Thoughts Reviews
Cecilia has a talent for instilling warmth and weight into her characters.
—Romancing the Book
Will have you captivated from beginning to end.
—Can’t Put It Down Reviews
Chapter One
The first question that fans of my show ask me when we meet in person is whether I, Kathia Ivanova, paranormal investigator extraordinaire, have ever seen a ghost.
I’ve seen truly awesome and unbelievable things. I’ve filmed vacant chairs moving away from a table on their own. Recorded whispers in an empty hall. Shivered as the room temperature dropped twenty degrees in a half-second. Photographed fuzzy creatures lumbering behind tightly clustered trees.
But have I come eye to eye, nose to nose, hand to hand with a spirit? A real, honest-to-goodness spectral spirit of someone’s dearly departed?
If I had, you can bet your EMF detector that Phenomena footage would be breaking engagement records for views and clicks on every media site and social network. Instead, I have a respectable eight o’clock Thursday night slot. Now in our fifth year, the show gets midmorning repeats, and we dominate Halloween marathon programming. Phenomena is the network’s third highest–rated stream and second in paid downloads. Not bad for someone who has never recorded a glimpse of Casper.
It’s not as if any other network show has, either.
I’ve seen the other kind of ghost, though. The kind that really haunt.
It’s not the average person who calls the show’s hotline claiming to have encountered an otherworldly presence. It’s always someone who is haunted, not only by ghosts, but also by memories, by the past, or by themselves. And as much as I love the investigative part of the show—documenting the scene, collecting data, analyzing results—it’s the emotional angle from my guests that spurs the ratings. In rare cases, like the grandmother with the dead pet monkey and that girl with the baseball outburst, clips can go viral and bring in new viewers.
I get the occasional letter from fans who declare undying love for me, and not all of them from prisons, I swear. While I’ve always found my skin too pale, my irises too icy blue, my cinnamon corkscrew curls too maddening, I’m easy enough on the eyes after an hour in hair and makeup. The majority of our fan mail, though, comes in from viewers who fall in love not with me, but with my guests.
It’s easy to be charmed by people so passionate, who care about their loved ones so much they can’t let them go, who believe in something bigger than all of us. Meeting these people who trust me with their stories and their pain, and getting to know whatever happened in their lives that brought them to me, is the best part of my job.
Only this time, on this week’s show, I already know the guest—and her story.
This time, the guest is me, and the story is mine.
We need something big for our one hundredth episode, the network brass said. Make it count!
I pitched them a celebrity episode and one on presidential hauntings, complete with a few ex-leaders of the free world who were willing to put in airtime. But no. Not enough, they said. Those ideas were fine for a season finale, but the one hundredth episode was supposed to reward die-hard fans. The one hundredth episode was supposed to be personal.
So my producer, Jamie, opened her big mouth. What about the Abbey? We can do a feature on Kathia.
I sputtered and protested. I was the host—the talent!—not a guest. But the network loved the idea of traveling to my hometown and showing our viewers how I spent my senior year of high school living inside the walls of the Abbey, a bona fide miracle spot.
If you believe in that kind of thing.
Which I do.
The Abbey is a miracle spot. In addition to the strange noises and weird goings-on within the walls of the converted convent, now boardinghouse-slash-hotel, every Easter Sunday at the stroke of midnight, one lucky resident receives a miracle. We wouldn’t be the first to document a miracle at the Abbey. The Vatican had sent some cardinal to visit a few years back, and our biggest competitors at the Discovery Channel have already filmed three shows there. But we would be the first to feature a real, live-in resident and not just a one-night guest.
Even though I tried every trick in the book to weasel out of filming, here I am on Good Friday, riding shotgun in a rented blue MINI Cooper as Jamie drives from the Portland airport to my hometown of Heartfield, Oregon.
You’re going to have to talk to me eventually,
Jamie says from the driver’s seat. If only because you like to boss me around.
I grunt, mainly because we both know who the real boss is in our partnership, and in no universe—this one or an alternate—has it ever been me. I might be the conductor on this train, but she’s the track. I only go where she leads me.
Still, I haven’t said a word to her all day, not
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