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We're launching the Book Tour for HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Catherine Lanigan! #HCTour


On Tour with Prism Book Tours

Note from the Author

Home for Christmas was pure Joy for me—in every chapter and word. I was thrilled when my editors gave me the green light to write this, the first Christmas story set in Indian Lake. I certainly hope it’s not the last for my beloved characters.

This story is especially dear to me because it’s cut right out of my life. In my hometown of La Porte, Indiana, there was a magical all-glass greenhouse just like the one Joy Boston inherits. From my earliest memories of Christmas, visits to the Bernacchi Greenhouse to choose the right poinsettias for aunts and friends was practically part of my DNA. For decades, even when I moved out of town and lived in big cities and foreign countries, Christmas memories always began in those greenhouses.

Today, the greenhouses are empty—glass ghosts of a time passed.


I had been devising several romantic Christmas stories and the idea of flamboyant poinsettias and those old greenhouses figured prominently in my midnight musings. But it was when my Aunt Sara came to visit she told me about my cousin, Monique’s century old home that she’d just equipped with Geothermal heating and saved money on drastic heating bills that the vision of engineer, Adam Masterson, sprung into my head and the plot flowed from there.

Just about everything in this story is true to my life, real life at Christmas in my town. There is a Christmas Pops Symphony concert I attend every year. We do have horse drawn carriages taking folks to and from. The tree farm is north of town and is where I bought my fabulous conifer tree last year. And it is where I’ll be right after thanksgiving to purchase my tree for this year.


There’s ice skating on several ponds and the smaller lakes around town, since we have seven lakes inside the city limits. The Santa Claus parade is an annual event. The Christmas Candlelight Tour which was featured in Katia’s Promise, is still going strong. Years ago, when my sister, Nancy, was alive and flourishing in her Celebrations-to-Go gift store, she decorated houses for the tour and several years she was tour chairman.

I took my nieces out on the golf course a few years ago to sled and we had hot cocoa and cookies afterward to warm up.

And, just when you thought I’d made up “Dead Man’s Tree”, sorry, that was real as well. The story behind the tree is fiction, but the grief of those who lost a loved one due to Dead Man’s curve and that tree is real. Till this day, there are those of us who still mourn lost classmates.

For all of you who cherish family traditions enough to expend the extra effort to re-create Christmas memories and keep the flame of faith and hope alive from one generation to the next, I send you my blessings. Christmas IS a magical time. Wishes come true. Dreams really can become reality and love can be found –even when it’s been lost.

Merry Christmas to all!

God bless us, every one!

Catherine

Home for Christmas
(Shores of Indian Lake #12)
By Catherine Lanigan
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 384 Pages
November 1st 2019 by Harlequin Heartwarming

Can a magical Christmas under glass…

…bring them back together for good?

Widowed dad Adam Masterson still doesn’t understand why Joy Boston left Indian Lake and broke his heart all those years ago. Now she’s returned to sell her grandfather’s beloved poinsettia greenhouse—and Joy and Adam’s connection is as strong as ever. But Joy has a life in New York. And Adam has only until Christmas to convince Joy that she belongs in Indian Lake—with him.

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Tour Schedule

November 11th:
Launch
Cover Lover Book Review
Andi's Book Reviews
Thoughts of a Blonde
November 12th:
Pause for Tales
Paulette's Papers
onemused
Woven From Words
November 13th:
Nicole's Book Musings
My Devotional Thoughts
It's All About the Romance
Splashes of Joy
November 14th:
Reading Is My SuperPower
Baroness' Book Trove
Wishful Endings
Britt Reads Fiction
The Power of Words
November 15th:
Heidi Reads... 
Rockin' Book Reviews
Cover To Cover Cafe 
November 18th:
janicesbookreviews
Locks, Hooks and Books 
Remembrancy
November 19th:
Kat's Corner Books
Hearts & Scribbles
For Him and My Family
November 20th:
Peaceful Pastime 
Beauty in the Binding
Faith Lane Author
Liberty's Literary Loves
November 21st:
Katie's Clean Book Collection
Hallie Reads
Harlie's Books
underneath the covers
November 22nd:
Jorie Loves A Story
Red Headed Book Lady
Becky on Books
EmpowerMoms
November 23rd:
Grand Finale

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About the Author

Catherine Lanigan is the international bestselling and award-winning author of over forty-five published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into over twenty-four languages. Lanigan was tasked by the NotMYkid foundation to pen a collection of compelling and informative true stories of teen addicts. Ms. Lanigan’s SHORES OF INDIAN LAKE series for HARLEQUIN HEARTWARMING includes LOVE SHADOWS, HEART’S DESIRE , A FINE YEAR FOR LOVE, KATIA’S PROMISE, FEAR OF FALLING, SOPHIE’S PATH, PROTECTING THE SINGLE MOM, FAMILY OF HIS OWN, HIS BABY DILEMMA, RESCUED BY THE FIREFIGHTER and HERS TO PROTECT (2019).

Ms. Lanigan is a frequent speaker at literary functions and book conventions as well as inspiring audiences with her real stories of angelic intervention from her Angel Tales series of books. She is an outspoken advocate for domestic violence and abuse and was honored by The National Domestic Violence Hotline in Washington, D.C. She has been a guest on numerous radio programs including “Coast to Coast” and on television interview and talk show programs as well as blogs, podcasts and online radio interview programs. She writes a monthly blog for Heartwarmingauthors.blogspot.com.

Tour Giveaway


- One winner will receive a $100 Amazon eGift Card (open internationally)
- Two winners will each receive a signed copy of Home for Christmas with a bookmark (US only)
- Ends November 27, 2019

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