A Kindled Winter
by Rachel L. Demeter
Publisher: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC
Publication Date: November 1, 2015
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance
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Synopsis:
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.
Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans
A week before Christmas, Jeseca Reed sets off for Blue River, Oregon—her childhood home and a vault of tender memories. However, fate takes an unexpected turn when she’s left stranded in the mountains’ vast, untamed wilderness. Desperate and alone, she seeks shelter at a cottage and finds herself in the arms of a mysterious stranger.
Dr. David Drake was once a renowned cardiovascular surgeon. But a devastating tragedy has left him scarred both inside and out, unable to use his hands to operate again. For the past five years, his Blue River cottage has been his sole escape—a safe haven where he can shut out the world, bury himself in his grief, and reunite with his son’s memory.
Together they are summer and winter. Fire and ice. And yet a poignant connection forms between them. Jeseca awakens David and thaws his heart with a romance hot enough to melt snow. But before David and Jeseca can fully embrace each other, they must wade through darkness and confront the ghosts of their pasts …
Equal parts steamy and heartfelt, A
Kindled Winter brings the spirit of the holidays to life with a passionate
story of second chances and healing love.
A KINDLED WINTER BOOK TRAILER
Title: A Kindled Winter
Author:Rachel L. Demeter
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Rating: ★★★★★
Reviewer: Melyssa
Having never read this author before, but
this seeming from the synopsis like a story that I could really get behind, I
wasted no time getting into it the second it dropped on my kindle and I have no
regrets.
A Kindled Winter is so much more than a holiday romance. It’s so much more than two people falling in love period. It’s about two emotionally drained and broken by tragedies in their lives coming together after a chance moment brings them together and finding a way through the darkness that has become their lives in order to come out into the light again.
It was emotional draining at times, especially when both David and Jeseca bared their souls, speaking of their losses. It was humorous, almost infectiously so, but it was also very poignant, moving and full of feeling.
I was moved reading this story and also surprised. Because for a book that isn’t all that long in length, for what was there within its pages, it sure packed a punch. By the time I was finished, I had the same hung over type of feeling that I get from emotionally driven full length novels.
The way the author described the area and the care she took in depicting both of these characters and their pasts was phenomenal. I could close my eyes and picture the places that were depicted and these characters with as flushed out as they were, were truly brought to life for me on the page.
It was a beautiful story of learning to trust again, loving not only the person you’re with again, but loving and forgiving yourself along the way as well. Allowing yourself in the end to heal and like I said before, live in the light and be happy.
If you’re a fan of holiday romances, short reads that read like full books, and stories that encompass more than just love between two people, but a whole host of others things as well, I think you’ll enjoy this. I know I did.
My thanks to the author and all others involved in letting me read an ARC of this story. I enjoyed it immensely.
A Kindled Winter is so much more than a holiday romance. It’s so much more than two people falling in love period. It’s about two emotionally drained and broken by tragedies in their lives coming together after a chance moment brings them together and finding a way through the darkness that has become their lives in order to come out into the light again.
It was emotional draining at times, especially when both David and Jeseca bared their souls, speaking of their losses. It was humorous, almost infectiously so, but it was also very poignant, moving and full of feeling.
I was moved reading this story and also surprised. Because for a book that isn’t all that long in length, for what was there within its pages, it sure packed a punch. By the time I was finished, I had the same hung over type of feeling that I get from emotionally driven full length novels.
The way the author described the area and the care she took in depicting both of these characters and their pasts was phenomenal. I could close my eyes and picture the places that were depicted and these characters with as flushed out as they were, were truly brought to life for me on the page.
It was a beautiful story of learning to trust again, loving not only the person you’re with again, but loving and forgiving yourself along the way as well. Allowing yourself in the end to heal and like I said before, live in the light and be happy.
If you’re a fan of holiday romances, short reads that read like full books, and stories that encompass more than just love between two people, but a whole host of others things as well, I think you’ll enjoy this. I know I did.
My thanks to the author and all others involved in letting me read an ARC of this story. I enjoyed it immensely.
Excerpt
David’s enchanting voice swelled the
darkness, surrounding Jeseca, gripping onto her senses with a thousand
beckoning fingers. They held her captive—and she readily surrendered her
freedom.
“We’re like day and night. Summer and
winter. Fire and ice. And yet something about you whispers my name and echoes
inside me …” His mouth found her pulse point. Damp, hot lips nibbled on her
skin and sent her wits reeling. “You should have never come in here. It was a
mistake.”
“Then tell me to leave and I’ll go,” she
replied through a breathy whisper. Her voice sounded thick with desire, hoarse
… she hardly recognized it as her own. “And I don’t believe we’re complete
opposites,” she said, her words husky and guttural. “I think the real you is
hiding.”
Impenetrable silence took hold. Only the howling
wind and David’s heavy breathing breached the quiet.
“Should I leave?”
More silence. “No. I need you … I need
you to stay with me.” The words emerged from the darkness and wrapped around
Jeseca’s heart with the force of a lasso.
He plunged a hand beneath the bathrobe,
which had fallen halfway open, and a jarring whoosh of air slammed against her
skin. His tongue swirled along her collarbone, branding her flesh with slick,
wet shapes. Her heart hammered, and she clutched at the bedsheet as his mouth ventured
lower … lower … skirting across the V-line of her plush pajama top. Then his
fingers were working the buttons, quickly undoing them and sweeping the soft
material aside. Cold air tightened her naked breasts, causing gooseflesh to
prickle her skin.
“Stop me if I’m going too fast,” he
breathed against her.
Yes, she should stop him. This was wrong.
Totally wrong. Instead, all rational thought melted away and she found herself
arching against his mouth and tongue. She wanted more—not less. And she wanted
him to go faster—not slower …
Also by Rachel L. Demeter
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Synopsis:
Colonel Gabriel de Laurent departed for
the war intending to die.
After a decade of bloodstained battlegrounds
while fighting in Napoleon's army, Gabriel returns to the streets of Paris a
shattered and haunted soul. Plagued by inner demons, he swallows the barrel of
his flintlock pistol and pulls the trigger.
But fate has a different plan.
Ariah Larochelle is a survivor. Orphaned
at twelve and victim to a devastating crime, she has learned to keep her back
to walls and to trust no one. But when she finds a gravely injured soldier
washed up on the River Seine, she's moved by compassion. In spite of her
reservations, she rescues him from the icy water and brings him into her home.
Now scarred inside and out, Gabriel
discovers a kindred spirit in Ariah—and feelings he imagined lost forever
reawaken as he observes her strength in the face of adversity. But when Ariah's
own lethal secrets unfold, their new love is threatened by ancient ghosts. Can
Gabriel and Ariah find hope in the wreckage of their pasts—or will the cycle of
history repeat again?
Perfect for fans of Gaelen Foley's Lord
of Ice and Judith James's Broken Wing, Finding Gabriel features
all the dark romance, searing passion, and historical intrigue of The
Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.
About The Author
Rachel L. Demeter
Rachel L. Demeter lives in the beautiful hills of Anaheim, California with Teddy, her goofy lowland sheepdog, and her high school sweetheart of eleven years. She enjoys writing poignant romances that challenge the reader's emotions and explore the redeeming power of love.
Imagining dynamic worlds and characters has been Rachel's passion for longer than she can remember. Before learning how to read or write, she would dictate stories while her mother would record them for her. She holds a special affinity for the tortured hero and unconventional romances. Whether crafting the protagonist or antagonist, she ensures every character is given a soul.
Her dream is to move readers and leave an emotional impact through her words.
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