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Christmas Hope - Book Tour and Giveaway

9/24/2019

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Christmas Hope
by Caroline Warfield
Genre: Historical Romance 

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Some wars must be fought, some loves must live on hope alone, and some stories must be told. This is one of them.

When the Great War is over, will their love be enough?

After two years at the mercy of the Canadian Expeditionary force and the German war machine, Harry ran out of metaphors for death, synonyms for brown, and images of darkness. When he encounters color among the floating islands of Amiens and life in the form a widow and her little son, hope ensnares him. Through three more long years of war and its aftermath, the hope she brings keeps Harry alive.

Rosemarie Legrand’s husband left her a tiny son, no money, and a savaged reputation when he died. She struggles to simply feed the boy and has little to offer a lonely soldier, but Harry’s devotion lifts her up. The war demands all her strength and resilience, will the hope of peace and the promise of Harry’s love keep her going?




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​Harry woke with a stab of fear. He reared up, groping for his rifle, afraid he had fallen asleep on duty.
He sank back into the bed as awareness flooded in. No enemy lurked. He reposed in soft covers in an unfamiliar room, his clothes had gone missing, and he wasn’t alone. A small boy watched him steadily from the doorway. Memory flooded back—fleeing from Lens, frantic to get to Rosemarie. He hadn’t deserted; he’d gotten leave or rather had it thrust on him with orders from Captain Mitchell to come back whole. He remembered a frantic journey, reaching her cottage, falling against the door, and not much else.
“You are dirty,” the boy said, approaching the bed. Harry ran a hand across the stubble on his face. It came away filthy.
“Apparently so. And you are tall, much too tall to be Marcel.”
The boy stiffened in offense. “I am Marcel. I am three.” He held up three fingers.
Before Harry could think what to say next the boy ran to the stairs shouting, “Maman, ‘arry is awake!”
His soldier’s instinct took stock of his surroundings. The room spread out under peaked roof beams. He doubted he could stand upright anywhere but the center of the room; it had only one way out, the direction Marcel had taken. He had slept in an actual bed. Rosemarie’s bed, it has to be. Did we share it? He thought not. If we had, I would certainly remember.
The blankets he lay in were worn and mended, but warm enough and clean—at least they had been until he lay in them. Since whoever took his clothing left his drawers and nothing else, he thought it best to stay nested where he lay. A tiny window at the peak of the roof let in a beam of light. It appeared to be slanted low in the sky. Does that window face east or west? Did I awake at dawn or sleep round the clock?
He could hear the boy talking with his mother and the sounds of pots and pans. Sharp awareness told him one more thing. Somewhere in this haven, fresh bread baked, sweet dough, he thought. His mouth began to water. With that, came the realization of gnawing hunger.
He debated what to do, undressed and feeble as he was. He envisioned Rosemarie fussing over her baking, and an even greater hunger overcame him, one he might do well to tame before he got out from the covers.
Her appearance in the doorway, his own vision of heaven itself, carrying a basin of steaming water, saved him the decision.
She put it on the little three-drawer chest against the opposite wall, along with the towel and rag she had over her arm.
“You’ll want to wash up,” she said. “I’m sorry we have no bathing tub. I found Raoul’s robe in storage,” she added, pointing to a purple robe draped over a trunk. The trunk, Marcel’s pallet at the foot of the bed, and a chest of drawers furnished the tiny room. She looked oddly shy, as if having him tucked in her bed with her late husband’s things nearby made her awkward.
Raoul. He had forgotten the husband, long dead now. The acid of pointless jealousy ate at him, and he could think of nothing to say. He sat up, letting the blanket fall to his lap, and her eyes dropped to the floor, but not before he caught the heat when she spied his naked chest. The jealousy fell away.


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Award winning author Caroline Warfield has been many things: traveler, librarian, poet, raiser of children, bird watcher, Internet and Web services manager, conference speaker, indexer, tech writer, genealogist—even a nun. She reckons she is on at least her third act, happily working in an office surrounded by windows where she lets her characters lead her to adventures in England and the far-flung corners of the British Empire. She nudges them to explore the riskiest territory of all, the human heart.


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38 Comments
Bea LaRocca
9/24/2019 03:18:37 am

A lovely cover and an intriguing excerpt. This sounds like a wonderful holiday read. Thank you for sharing the book and author details.

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Caroline Warfield link
9/24/2019 12:10:32 pm

Thank you so much.

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Debbie P
9/24/2019 10:34:02 am

I love historical fiction and this book sounds like an amazing read. Great cover!

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Caroline Warfield link
9/26/2019 01:16:37 pm

Thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoy historical fiction. I read historical anything.

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Caroline Warfield link
9/24/2019 12:09:36 pm

Thanks so much for this wonderful lineup

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Rita Wray
9/24/2019 12:21:03 pm

Sounds like a good read.

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Beyond Comps
9/24/2019 01:10:18 pm

Nice cover!

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Calvin
9/24/2019 02:04:10 pm

Nice history in this one.

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lynn clayton
9/24/2019 02:44:07 pm

i like the cover looks really good

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Mary Preston
9/24/2019 04:40:47 pm

I love Historical Romance.

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SHERRY
9/24/2019 04:56:32 pm

The book sounds really good.

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Dale Wilken
9/24/2019 06:32:30 pm

Sounds great.

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Catherine Maguire
9/24/2019 07:50:41 pm

A lovely book cover and excellent story.

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Sarah
9/25/2019 09:34:11 am

Love historical romances

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Kelly Nicholson
9/25/2019 11:33:44 am

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i love christmas,and there seems to me magical stuff at christmas time even when stuff is bad

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Paula
9/25/2019 12:53:59 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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Stephanie
9/26/2019 12:51:50 pm

It sounds like a sweet story despite their hardships.

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Terri Quick
9/26/2019 11:49:57 pm

Pretty cover

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Serge B
9/28/2019 10:05:01 am

Sweet and nostalgic cover!

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Mary Cloud
9/28/2019 12:50:59 pm

No questions. The cover is interesting.

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heather
9/28/2019 02:55:16 pm

This so sounds like my kind of read and I love the cover too. Good luck on the tour.

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Piroska
10/3/2019 03:25:09 pm

The book sounds wonderful! I've put it on my reading list.

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Ann Fantom
10/4/2019 05:19:46 pm

I like the cover. It is very well done

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Tracie Cooper
10/9/2019 01:35:25 pm

I am very excited to read this book!

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Victoria Scott
10/9/2019 02:31:20 pm

Love Christmas stories!

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Catelyn
10/10/2019 01:32:16 am

I wonder who the people on the cover are?

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Daniel M
10/17/2019 07:10:04 pm

like the cover

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Sarah Hayes
10/19/2019 05:26:12 pm

The cover really got my attention as I love period pieces. This would be so fun to have as i hold a special place in my heart for veterans and what the poppy represents.

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Tracy Urschler
10/19/2019 07:27:28 pm

Looks like a really good historical romance!

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Cathy Truman
10/19/2019 09:16:11 pm

The cover looks like a very fun and historical read. Looking forward to reading it.

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Suzannah Clark
10/20/2019 12:58:13 am

I would love to know the story behind the cover. What a great picture!

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Mood Reader
10/20/2019 01:39:53 am

Looks great!

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Judy Gregory
10/23/2019 09:18:34 pm

I like the old-timey cover.

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Mya Murphy
10/24/2019 09:21:36 am

What an awesome cover!!!

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Francine Anchondo
10/24/2019 09:32:56 am

I really like the cover

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Renee
10/24/2019 07:39:10 pm

Just the cover alone makes me want to read this book. My mom and dad met at the end of WWII where he served in the Army Aircorce before it split into two different branches. I'm looking forward to reading this!

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Cassandra D
10/24/2019 10:29:57 pm

Looks like a nice cover.

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Jerry Marquardt
10/24/2019 11:03:46 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Christmas Hope, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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