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We're only 57 days away from the release of REBECCA: ANGEL CREEK CHRISTMAS BRIDE. Here is a look at the main characters and the scene where they first meet.

Excerpt
Rebecca ©Lily Graison 2020


This is Diana Hale?

Caleb knew he was staring like an idiot but it was taking his brain longer to catch up with what he was seeing. This had to be a mistake.

He placed his hands on Amanda’s shoulders when she stepped back and leaned against him and Caleb couldn’t stop staring. Had he received someone else’s letter by mistake?

No. It was signed by Diana Hale and this woman answered to that name.

Mentally shaking himself, he tried to keep the shock from his face and gave her a smile. “Its’ nice to meet you, Diana.” He looked down at Amanda and gave her shoulders a light squeeze. “This is my daughter, Amanda.”

Diana looked between the two of them, her eyes a bit wide. The smile on her face looked like a cross between forced and nervous and he guessed it was probably both. Heaven’s knew he was feeling discombobulated at the moment. He’d been expecting to tie himself to a tall, dour looking woman until the day he died and yet standing before him was—an angel. A beautiful angel with long dark hair and the eyes so blue they were nearly violet.

He cleared his throat when neither of them said anything and let go of tight grip he now had on Amanda’s shoulders. “Is that one trunk all you have?”

She nodded before looking down at the trunk by her feet. “Yes, just that one.”

He looked down the sidewalk and saw Grady Jenkins headed their way. When the boy was close enough, he called out to him and made arrangements for the boy to take Diana’s trunk to the house.

Grady grabbed Howie Andrews to help carry it, both of the boys turning red in the face as they lifted the cumbersome luggage. It must be heavier than it looked.

Turning his attention back to Diana, he straightened and offered her another smile. “The house is this way.” He nodded down the street with his head and was about to tell her to follow him when Amanda ran over and grabbed her hand and started pulling her down the sidewalk.

Caleb walked behind them, glad he wasn’t forced to talk to her yet. He was still trying to wrap his head around the fact this woman was to be his wife and he wasn’t sure how he felt about it. He’d had no intentions of making Diana Hale a proper wife and her letter made it seem as if she wasn’t all that concerned about it either so the marriage in name was mutually beneficial to them, but how in the world was he supposed to ignore her? How could he sleep at night knowing she was in his bed and he wasn’t?

He ran a hand over his face, pushing the thoughts away. He’d not sent away for a wife for anything other than someone to help out at home and to teach Amanda how to be a proper lady and Diana being so—stunning—wouldn’t change any of that. It would just make living with her harder because like it or not, his future bride made him wish he could take back all the requirements he’d requested and turn the shame of a marriage he’d requested into the real deal.
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