This week, Susie Black’s Saturday Author Spotlight shines on romance author Peggy Jaeger.
About the Author:
I'm a #contemporaryromance writer who writes #RomComs about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If I can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears rolling with laughter the next, I've done my job as a writer! Family and food play huge roles in my stories because I believe there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, I bring all topics of daily life into my stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness, and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents, I longed for sisters, brothers, and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through my books, I've created the families I wanted as that lonely child.
Susie had the opportunity to read and review Fixing Christmas: A Dickens Holiday Romance (book 3). Here is a blurb to whet your appetite:
Christmas has never filled writer Abra Charles with undiluted pleasure. If you’d been left on a doorstep on Christmas Eve morning, you might have a few issues with the holiday as well.
Abra’s avoided her hometown of Dickens for the past twenty Christmas seasons, but now she’s returned in an attempt to get her writing mojo back. Twice-divorced and with her third engagement ending in heartbreak, anger, and blackmail, Abra is now six months behind on submitting her current book. She hopes renting Copperfield House and immersing herself in solitude will cure her writer’s block and get her life back on track. The house she rents isn’t helping her achieve her goal, though, as one thing after another breaks, collapses, or floods.
Colton Bree, Dickens’ very own Mr. FixIt, can’t help but wonder if the new resident of Copperfield House is cursed. After being called to repair a broken window, he is then needed to fix an exploding coffeepot, an overflowing toilet, and a washing machine that has a mind of its own. Bree doesn’t mind all the unexpected repair jobs, though, because the sexy renter is something to look at despite being a little neurotic and a whole lot of snarky.
Can Abra get her book done with all the distractions and craziness of her life, the biggest distraction being the flannelled hunk with the bedroom eyes and scowling yet oh-so-kissable mouth? Or will Dickens’ Mr. FixIt have to step in and save the day, and in so doing, fix Christmas for Abra forever?
Here is Susie’s Review:
Successful author Abra Charles is at her wits’ end after suffering through six months of writer’s block. To meet her publisher’s looming deadline, the three-time loser in love decides a change of scenery might jumpstart her creative juices. Abra leaves the bright lights and hustle-bustle of Las Vegas and, after a twenty-year absence at the holidays, the abandoned as an infant but adopted author rents a house in her hometown in rural New England. The rental has issues, and oil and water opposites Abra and Bree, the hunky local Mr. Fixit, are thrown together, but are unable to deny the sparks between them.
Award-winning author Peggy Jaeger’s plot moves at a good pace with snappy dialogue and has enough twists to keep readers turning the pages well after bedtime. Readers can relate to and root for the cast of flawed, but believable characters.
Fixing Christmas is the coming-home-again holiday rom-com with a message of belief in life’s possibilities that every reader can draw from. The feel-good story shines a light on facing one’s demons, acceptance, and the offer of redemption that comes with forgiveness. A story with a range of emotions such as this that elicits both laughter and tears from its readers is certainly worthy of the five-star review I have given it.
https://www.amazon.com/Fixing-Christmas-Dickens-Holiday-Romance-ebook/dp/B09DDG9CQM/ref=sr_1_7?crid=PL
I am joyful you enjoyed Fixing Christmas. Abracadabra is such a moody character… it was fun writing her!! Thanks for the shoutout. Peg