About the Book
Book: Tracy: A Sweet, Quirky, Romantic Masterpiece (Book 6 of the Weather Girls Wedding Shoppe and Venue series. It can be read as a stand-alone.)
Author: Jennifer Lynn Cary
Genre: Sweet, Wholesome Romance (Retro)
Release date: October, 2024
Her heart can’t take more breakage…
…He’s been wounded enough
Yet they’re becoming best friends without ever having met.
Tracy Callahan has learned that relationships aren’t for her. The struggling glass artist puts up barriers to keep romantic entanglements from causing more pain. However, her feelings are growing for her roommate’s brother, despite having never seen him in person.
How can just his voice on the phone hold that much attraction?
Danny Mitchell left a large part of himself in Viet Nam and is learning how to navigate life back here in the states. It’s better to just avoid the public. As long as he doesn’t have to see anyone in person, he can pretend he’s his old self, and the caller on the other end of the phone won’t know the difference.
But Tracy is breaking through, resurrecting feelings he thought were dead and gone.
They might find a way to make a telephone relationship work. Unless meddling loved ones get involved.
When that happens, can Tracy and Danny’s friendship survive meeting face-to-face?
Or could there be something more than friendship in store for them? Maybe a God-designed masterpiece built from their broken parts?
Return to 1973 Kokomo, Indiana where the legend of the cardinal in the sycamore can still prove true love.
You will enjoy this sweet, quirky tale of hidden worth, because sometimes what we need is right in front of us.
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About the Author
Historical Christian Romance author, Jennifer Lynn Cary,
likes to say you can take the girl out of Indiana, but you can’t take
the Hoosier out of the girl. Now transplanted to the Arizona desert,
this direct descendant of Davy Crockett and her husband of forty plus
years enjoy time with family where she shares tales of her small-town
heritage and family legacies with their grandchildren. She is the author
of The Crockett Chronicles series, The Relentless series, and The Weather Girls trilogy as well as the stand-alone novel, Cheryl’s Going Home, her novella Tales of the Hob Nob Annex Café, and her split-time novels The Traveling Prayer Shawl and The Forgotten Gratitude Journal. Her current spin-off series, The Weather Girls Wedding Shoppe and Venue, contains standalones with a common thread.
More from Jennifer
Have you ever met characters in a story that stayed with you, even when they weren’t the main characters? That’s what happened to me after I wrote Runaround Sue. Sue’s brother and her roommate seemed to hit it off so well, and I loved those characters.
It only made sense to give Tracy and Danny their own story.
However, I will confess that I had planned to make a character named Tracy because of the song, “Tracy” by the Cufflinks. It’s such a happy, bouncy tune and I thought that fit Sue’s roommate.
I do need to add that I relied on a childhood friend for some Danny’s antics. At one point I was told that something he did wasn’t possible. The problem was, I knew it was because my friend, Maureen McKay did that very thing. Maureen had a personality like Tracy’s and determination like Danny’s.
A few years ago I was back in Kokomo for a special wedding anniversary party. I noticed a guy sitting at a table and went to talk with him. At that time, I was combing faces for someone I’d known back when I went to school there. He had that look, but as we talked, it was obvious we didn’t know each other.
A little later I told my cousin about that, and she said that he was ahead of us in school, but he had a younger sister who would’ve been about my age. I knew immediately why he’d looked familiar. He was Maureen’s big brother.
I searched him and his mother out quickly and let them know I remembered Maureen. I mentioned a few of our escapades. Then I told them that my husband and I had lost a son, and that the kindest thing anyone could say was that they remembered our Ian. So, for that reason, I wanted them to know I remember Maureen.
And that’s why Tracy is dedicated to the memory of my friend Maureen McKay.
Blog Stops
Babbling Becky L’s Book Impressions, January 21
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, January 22
Texas Book-aholic, January 23
Vicky Sluiter, January 24 (Author Interview)
Pause for Tales, January 24
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, January 25
Library Lady’s Kid Lit, January 26 (Author Interview)
Locks, Hooks and Books, January 27
Simple Harvest Reads, January 28 (Author Interview)
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, January 29
For the Love of Literature, January 30 (Author Interview)
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, January 31
Tell Tale Book Reviews, February 1 (Author Interview)
For Him and My Family, February 2
Blossoms and Blessings, February 3 (Author Interview)
Leslie’s Library Escape, February 3
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Jennifer is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card and a signed copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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addict, and an avid reader. I’m a lover of coffee, music, learning,
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Suzanne Woods Fisher
is a Christy finalist, a Carol and Selah winner, a two-time ECPA Book
of the Year finalist, and the Publishers Weekly and ECPA bestselling
author of more than forty books. Her genres include contemporary and
historical romances, Amish romance, and women’s fiction. She and her
husband live in a small town in California, where everyone knows
everyone else, knows what they are doing and why. Most friends act a
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