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Christmas Love Year Round (Kindred Lake #1) by Elanie Stock -- Blog Tour Review + Giveaway

11/7/2018
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About the Book

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Book: Christmas Love Year Round
Author: Elaine Stock
Genre: Christian romance, sweet romance
Release Date: September 25, 2018

Cami Richardson is good at chasing away the men in her life: first Gavin Kinkaid, a former classmate she’d helped to bully, and later, her husband who left her widowed and a single mom. Now all she wants is to bring a smile back to her eight-year-old son. What she doesn’t expect is for Gavin to become her new neighbor.

Gavin wants to settle down after serving in the Air Force and mend the separation between him and his dad. What he didn’t count on is his changing feelings when he sees Cami as a kind woman instead of his former adversary.
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When Cami’s son blindsides them both during the Christmas season, is their reunion at risk or will it grow stronger?
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About the Author

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Elaine Stock is the author of the novels Her Good Girl, winner of the 2018 American Fiction Awards in the Christian Inspirational category, and Always With You, which won the 2017 Christian Small Publishers Association Book of the Year Award in fiction. And You Came Along, a novella, released in December 2017. Her novels fuse romance, family drama and faith in a clean fiction style. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Romance Writers of America, and Women’s Fiction Writers Association. In addition to Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads, she hangs out on her active blog, Everyone’s Story, dedicated to uplifting and encouraging all readers through the power of story and hope.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Elaine has now been living in upstate, rural New York with her husband for more years than her stint as a NYC gal. She enjoys long walks down country roads, visiting New England towns, and of course, a good book.
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​Guest Post from Elaine

To love someone with all of your heart is the only thing that matters in this world.

Readers often ask the origin of a story idea. When I wrote my first published novel, Always With You, I was asked if my husband was a white supremacist. No! When Her Good Girl released, the questions of whether my mother practiced Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy popped up as well. Although my mother unfortunately did suffer another mental illness, it wasn’t MSP. And now Christmas Love Year Round, Book 1 of the Kindred Lake romance series, is on sale. What does fuel my writing? What is a connecting theme between the stories I write?

Love.

Love is the most essential relationship we must share between all…between family members, friends, neighbors…between strangers, enemies, those who live differently than us, and foreign countries.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 13:34-35 (NIV)

Yet, isn’t honest love the hardest thing to do? Perhaps it is also the most difficult virtue to teach and the most vexing passion to express.

Imagine this scenario: You’re a widowed mom with an impressionable eight-year-old son. Your conscience is riddled with the worry that you might have pushed your husband toward his death, and that’s on top of the weight bearing down on you from your childhood days of participating with others to bully a particular family in town.

Then, the one boy who was part of that picked-upon family, now a grown man and stirringly handsome purchases the house across the street from you. You’ll likely see him every day.

And, with a gulp, you realize…that you want to see him. That actually, despite all that transpired between the two of you back in high school, you’re Attracted to him with a Capital A.

Might that magnetism between the two of you be mutual?

This is the set-up between Cami and Gavin in Christmas Love Year Round. Will these two former adversaries forgive not only each other but themselves as well and take loving one’s neighbor to the next step of falling in love and making amends into amens?
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May each of you be blessed with love and joy year round!

Review

Christmas Love Year Round by author Elaine Stock is a beautiful and charming story that has a strong theme of forgiveness—learning to forgive, forgiveness and accepting forgiveness.  It’s about past mistakes and overcoming and moving past them to become better and more accepting of those around.  Stock has written a heartwarming and sweet story that not only includes the theme of forgiveness, but a sweet and delightful holiday romance as well.  The children in the story also add an excellent depth that it wouldn’t otherwise have.  Readers will be delighted with this enjoyable and entertaining holiday story that has the realities of the ups and downs of real life.  This is a story that readers will not want to put down until the last page is turned.
 
Series: Kindred Lake
Genre: romance, inspirational, holiday, Christmas
Publisher: GTG Publishing
Publication date: August 15, 2018
Number of pages: 212
 
A review copy of this book was provided by CelebrateLit.  A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own.

Giveaway

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To celebrate her tour, Elaine is giving away:

Grand Prize:
Winner’s choice between print (US only) or Kindle of Christmas Love Year Round, Kindle of And You Came Along (companion novel to Christmas Love Year Round), and a $10.00 Amazon Gift Card

1st and 2nd Prizes: a Kindle edition of Christmas Love Year Round!!
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Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click HERE to enter.

Tour Schedule

​Back Porch Reads, November 3
Inklings and notions, November 4
Christian Centered Book Reviews, November 4
Christian Author, J.E. Grace, November 5
Cultivating Us, November 6
Quiet Quilter, November 6
Reading Is My SuperPower, November 7
Singing Librarian Books, November 7
Moments, November 8
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, November 9
Robin is Bookish, November 9
Remembrancy, November 10
Vicky Sluiter, November 10
Bibliophile Reviews, November 11
A Baker’s Perspective, November 12
proud to be an autism mom, November 13
Texas Book-aholic, November 13
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, November 14
Carpe Diem, November 14
Janices book reviews, November 15
godly Book Reviews, November 16
Bigreadersite, November 16
10 Comments
Elaine Stock link
11/7/2018 06:38:10 am

Sydney, heartfelt thanks for the wonderful review of Christmas Love Year Round. I'm glad Cami and Gavin's story touched your heart. More so, I appreciate your support of Christian fiction.

May you and your viewers be blessed with Christmas joy year round.

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Emma link
11/7/2018 06:45:54 pm

This sounds like a fun story with some good things to think about!

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James Robert
11/8/2018 01:33:28 am

I appreciate you taking the time to give us a great book description and giveaway as well. Thank you so much!

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kim
11/8/2018 05:55:59 am

Sounds like a good read.

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Jan Hall
11/8/2018 06:19:41 am

I am convinced that I need to read this book. Have a blessed day.

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Kay Garrett
11/8/2018 06:43:15 am

Thank you for your review on "Christmas Love Year Round" by Elaine Stock and for being part of the book tour.

LOVED reading the guest post! Can't wait for the opportunity to read this book which I've placed on my TBR list.

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Rita Wray
11/8/2018 09:20:00 am

Sounds like a good read.

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Nancy Burgess
11/8/2018 01:43:58 pm

Sounds like a great read.

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Lelia “Lucy” Reynolds
11/8/2018 04:40:58 pm

Thank you for sharing.

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Arletta
11/8/2018 07:50:22 pm

I love these book tours and discovering both new authors and new books. Thanks for the review.

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