Christmas Village Trilogy

Nine days before Christmas Kellany Crawford finds herself dumped by her boyfriend and a victim to cutbacks at work. With no family and no roots she impulsively sets off to visit the one place from her childhood that holds warm Christmas memories. The year she was six the foster family she was staying with lived next door to Mrs. Paxton who had the most amazing Christmas village - Snowy Pines. From then on whenever Kellany imagine herself in her "happy place" she was always in Snowy Pines. So she sets off to see if Mrs. Paxton and Snowy Pines will still set her heart at ease. But along the road a snow storm hits and Kellany ends up getting lost, wrecking her car and being knocked unconscious. When she comes to, she's stunned to learn that she's in Snowy Pines.She soon meets a host of eccentric locals including a vivacious nurse, a group of 60+er's who are overly interested in her love life, a hunky doctor who looks like Kellany's fantasy come to life and a little girl who might need Kellany almost as much as Kellany needs her. How can she actually be happy in a place she knows isn't even real? But how can she walk away from the chance to find more than a life... but a chance to have a future and a family and A Christmas Village to Call Home. An insomniac since birth, my earliest memories are of lying in bed at night and making up stories to keep myself entertained. Anytime life got dull, I'd create my own adventure in my mind and suddenly I could be anyone, anywhere. It seemed only natural that those characters who've been bouncing around my own personal make believe world, would eventually find their way to the pages of a book. Each of my characters has a beloved life of their own, and the stories I'm telling about them are just the windows into their adventures.

At eight-years-old, Lola's life took a precarious turn when a car wreck and her mother's trip to rehab results in an elaborate dream that found Lola in a real-life Christmas village and witness to the budding romance of Dr. Josh and Kellany. Years later Lola's life is far from the idyllic romance she envisioned in Snowy Pines. Her marriage is in trouble and she's spending Christmas without her five-year-old son and with her mother. A late-night drive home from the hospital where Lola works as a nurse turns suddenly dangerous and Lola awakes in a familiar hospital room... the same one she was in as an eight-year-old girl in Snowy Pines. Now her husband is here and has no recollection of the problems plaguing them back home, her son has never been born and no one she met as a child remembers anything about her. It's only when a friend from her past makes it to town that she realizes that she's been given a unique gift - a slice of her life outside of her life - a chance to find out exactly where to go next. But between missing her son, falling helplessly in love with her husband and spending her days in a Christmas village come to life Lola wonders how she'll ever figure out what it is she's supposed to learn during A Trip Back to Snowy Pines. An insomniac since birth, my earliest memories are of lying in bed at night and making up stories to keep myself entertained. Anytime life got dull, I'd create my own adventure in my mind and suddenly I could be anyone, anywhere. It seemed only natural that those characters who've been bouncing around my own personal make believe world, would eventually find their way to the pages of a book. Each of my characters has a beloved life of their own, and the stories I'm telling about them are just the windows into their adventures.

Florrie Gentry became an orphan before her eleventh birthday, and even the best family in the world couldn't replace what she'd lost.Ten years later she's still struggling to fit into the Callahan's life, and finds it's even harder at Christmas. So she foregoes her usual trip to Snowy Pines and starts out instead for Boston with her boyfriend, but along the way she changes her mind and ends up hitchhiking along an unfamiliar road. She's picked-up by her childhood nurse Lola McCauley and quickly learns that Lola is headed for Snowy Pines.Once she's there Florrie is eager to connect with her adopted family and make peace, but she soon discovers that in Snowy Pines things aren't ever the way you expected. Now she's in a town she's been to dozens of times with family and friends who've never seen or heard of her. Only a childhood playmate and Lola McCauley know her true story.Kellany always says you come to Snowy Pines to learn things, but Florrie knows immediately that she's been ungrateful and unfair to her family so what else is there to learn? And how can she learn it and get Home in Time to spend Christmas in Snowy Pines for real? An insomniac since birth, my earliest memories are of lying in bed at night and making up stories to keep myself entertained. Anytime life got dull, I'd create my own adventure in my mind and suddenly I could be anyone, anywhere. It seemed only natural that those characters who've been bouncing around my own personal make believe world, would eventually find their way to the pages of a book. Each of my characters has a beloved life of their own, and the stories I'm telling about them are just the windows into their adventures.