The blessings in my life:
Family.
Not wasting the gift of storytelling.
After a divorce, reconnecting with my childhood sweetheart and having eight of the most wonderful years of my life with him before he died of cancer.
A blessing I never expected oddly enough has come from a social media site – the infamous Facebook. I have the best readers in the world, bar none. Once we connected, they began more than readers. They are my friends. There are so many I will never meet, but I know their stories, and their tragedies. I know their triumphs and their losses, and when I lose one, I grieve the loss of a good friend.
Having lost so many family members, I can state with all my heart that life itself is the true blessing. We come here with a purpose. Not everyone realizes that. Not everyone follows that path. But while we are here, it is our job to do the best we can with what we have, and be the light for those who still stand in the shadows.
It is a blessing to me that I know this, and accept the daily challenge of keeping negativity and anger from my heart.
You and Only You
(Blessings, Georgia #1)
by Sharon Sala
Paperback, 320 pages
Expected publication: February 22nd 2016 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
(first published February 4th 2014 as The Curl Up & Dye)
ISBN 1492634395
Welcome to Book One in the Blessings, Georgia series of Southern contemporary romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala. With the support of her handsome, unassuming friend Mike Dalton, LilyAnne Bronte is finally ready to put the past in the past.
It's never too late
Mike Dalton has secretly loved LilyAnn Bronte since they were all children together in the small town of Blessings, Georgia. But one fateful day T.J. Lachlan roars into town and starts showering LilyAnn with his charm, and Mike feels his dream of them being more than friends slipping away.
To find the love you missed
LilyAnn, as anyone in Blessings will tell you, let herself go after her fiancee was killed in Iraq. The attention of the handsome new guy shocks her into a revelation: she's ready to live again, and maybe the best is yet to come. The thing is, everybody in Blessings is sure it's Mike and LilyAnn who belong together-and they're willing to do whatever it takes to make LilyAnn realize the love of her life has been by her side all along.
About Sharon
Sharon Sala, who has also written under the name Dinah McCall, has 85-plus books in print, published in four different genres—Romance, Young Adult, Western, and Women’s Fiction, and her Young Adult books have been optioned for film. She has been named a RITA finalist seven times by Romance Writers of America, and in 2011 they named her the recipient of the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her books are New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestsellers and published in many different languages. She lives in Oklahoma, the state where she was born.
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I too have lost many loved ones, basically my whole immediate family and in a very short time period. At first the grief was crippling but I realized that I had such a beautiful gift in having had them in my life.They were and are my blessings. Thank you for your, post and the giveaway chance.
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