{"id":251,"date":"2012-12-11T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_11\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:28:16","slug":"christmas-holiday-extravaganza_11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_11\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Spotlight #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>As You Are at Christmas by Davalynn Spencer<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/as-you-are-at-christmas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AsYouAreAtChristmas_w11192_300\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/images\/stories\/covers\/AsYouAreAtChristmas_w11192_300.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a>Angela<br \/>\n Murphy\u2019s plans for a cozy Colorado Christmas shatter when she finds her<br \/>\n fellow-teacher boyfriend entangled with another woman. But she goes<br \/>\nhome anyway\u2014to her grandmother Mollie\u2019s Berthoud Boarding House where<br \/>\nshe\u2019s forced into tasks with Mollie\u2019s handsome new boarder, Matt Dawson.<\/p>\n<p>While temporarily rooming at the boarding house until his new<br \/>\nfurnace arrives, Matt sees through Mollie\u2019s manipulations to pair him<br \/>\nwith her granddaughter, but he can\u2019t complain about spending time with<br \/>\nthe beautiful gray-eyed school teacher and the mangy stray they pick up<br \/>\non their way home from cutting a Christmas tree. In the company of both a<br \/>\n beauty and a beast, Matt understands more clearly the words of a<br \/>\nlong-forgotten youth leader. <\/p>\n<p>Will those words draw him back to a<br \/>\n long-forgotten God? And will Angela find that home lies not in the<br \/>\nVictorian house of her childhood, but in the arms of the man she\u2019s grown<br \/>\n to love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As You Are at Christmas by Davalynn Spencer Angela Murphy\u2019s plans for a cozy Colorado Christmas shatter when she finds her fellow-teacher boyfriend entangled with another woman. But she goes home anyway\u2014to her grandmother Mollie\u2019s Berthoud Boarding House where she\u2019s forced into tasks with Mollie\u2019s handsome new boarder, Matt Dawson. While temporarily rooming at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512,746],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-books","category-holidays","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}