Baby, It's Cold Outside

Baby, It's Cold Outside
Susan May Warren
(Summerside Press)
ISBN: 978-1609362157
September, 2011/320 pages/$12.99

Hope finds the hopeless when a storm hits.

It's Christmas weekend 1949, and despite the threat of a storm, the townspeople of Frost are determined to continue their holiday traditions, if only as a means to forget the war that they had all just suffered through. But the suffering hasn't ended for Dottie Morgan who lost her only son in the war. She's preparing to wallow in her isolation for the weekend, when Violet, nearly a spinster at age 29, dares to make a request that will force Dottie to publicly revive the memory of her dead son.

When a storm traps the two women at home with a strange young man who has an unbelievable confession and a neighbor with more to do with Dottie's past than she would like, no one can predict how this Christmas will give them all a second chance.

Read an excerpt here and find out the story behind the novel.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Susan May Warren is an award-winning, best-selling author of over twenty-five novels, many of which have won the Inspirational Readers Choice Award, the ACFW Book of the Year award, the Rita Award, and have been Christy finalists. After serving as a missionary for eight years in Russia, Susan returned home to a small town on Minnesota’s beautiful Lake Superior shore where she, her four children, and her husband are active in their local church.

Susan's larger than life characters and layered plots have won her acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. A seasoned women’s events and retreats speaker, she’s a popular writing teacher at conferences around the nation and the author of the beginning writer’s workbook: From the Inside-Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you!. She is also the founder of www.MyBookTherapy.com, a story-crafting service that helps authors discover their voice.

Susan makes her home in northern Minnesota, where she is busy cheering on her two sons in football, and her daughter in local theater productions (and desperately missing her college-age son!)

A full listing of her titles, reviews and awards can be found at:www.susanmaywarren.com.

MY THOUGHTS:
What a fun book to curl up with on a cozy evening! Susan May Warren has once again created a novel with wonderful characters that leap off the pages into your heart. Oh, they have their moments when you want to shake some sense into them, especially Dottie and her neighbor, who seem determined to irritate the daylights out of each other in an effort to avoid admitting how much they really care! Violet, meanwhile, is caught off-guard by the arrival of a soldier who served alongside the man she planned to marry and whose death she is still grieving, and by the disclosure this visitor reveals. Summerside Press is kicking off this delightful new When I Fall in Love series with this gem of a story set in 1949. You'll be humming Baby, It's Cold Outside no matter what the temperature is where you are!

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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity and Summerside Press as part of their Blogger Review program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”