{"id":8978,"date":"2021-12-05T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2021-11-07T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T21:31:23","slug":"why-didnt-you-go-home-for-christmas-weekendwritingwarriors-paranormalromance-holidayromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8978","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t You Go Home for Christmas? &#8211; #weekendwritingwarriors #paranormalromance #holidayromance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/wewriwa.blogspot.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cWrW5h1cKkY\/UQaGUcSiNeI\/AAAAAAAABAA\/UxDMpIoXpJk\/s1600\/wewriwa_button.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center>Hello and welcome! It&#8217;s time for the Weekend Writing Warriors, in which writers share 8-10 sentences from their work.<\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;m going to share excerpts from my holiday paranormal romance Spirits of Christmas. It has a touch of horror and spicy love scenes, so it&#8217;s not a sweet holiday romance.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for stopping by!<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou probably want me to go, right?\u201d Christa tried not to sound as disappointed as she felt. She had been counting on this place to help her find what she\u2019d lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He narrowed those jewel-like eyes. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you go home for Christmas?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2026\u201d How could she tell him the truth, that she was here to contact ghosts? \u201cI felt I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He nodded slowly, studying her. She should have felt uncomfortable, but his eyes were so damn pretty she could gaze into them all night. He was as attractive in real life as on screen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Spirits of Christmas<\/strong><br \/>\nby Kate Hill<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve twenty-five years ago, a brutal murder was committed at the house where Christa Wild works as a live-in maid. When the other servants leave for the holiday this year she stays behind, hoping that any spirits dwelling there will help her regain the psychic power she lost. She\u2019s surprised when the intriguing but disturbed owner of the house appears several days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Action star Joel Connor has kept a terrible secret for most of his life. Despite his success as an athlete and actor, he is plagued by flashbacks of a gruesome attack that destroyed his family. This Christmas, Joel returns to the house where it happened to face the ghosts of the past, but finds he is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Joel and Christa are instantly attracted, but will his psychological state prevent them from finding peace and love?<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.changelingpress.com\/spirits-of-christmas-wild-witches-of-beaver-bay-2-b-2964\">Changeling Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read snippets from other authors in the Weekend Writing Warriors Blog hop <a href=\"http:\/\/wewriwa.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome! It&rsquo;s time for the Weekend Writing Warriors, in which writers share 8-10 sentences from their work. This month I&rsquo;m going to share excerpts from my holiday paranormal romance Spirits of Christmas. It has a touch of horror and spicy love scenes, so it&rsquo;s not a sweet holiday romance. Thank you for stopping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,946],"tags":[783,772,476],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirits-of-christmas","category-wewriwa-blog-hop","tag-blog-hop","tag-holiday-romance","tag-paranormal-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}