UPDATE: The Hop is now over, and the winner came from ZIna Abbot's Bridgeport Holiday Brides blogpost....Laurie! Congratulations Laurie!!

Come join the fun in our first (annual?) Turkey Trot Blog Hop!

​DETAILS:
Dates--
November 22-24, 2016. Contest will run from 12:01am CST Nov. 22 until 11:59pm CST Nov. 24; with winners announced on Friday November 25.

Prizes--

Each blogger will host their own giveaway on their blog. (Books, gift cards, swag, etc)
Plus there will be a random commenter across the whole blog hop who will win a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

Turkey Trot Blog Hop is Open to International Winners, however, individual authors reserve the right to their own rules and limits.

GO HOP!

Today I have the pleasure of announcing a debut release by author Jael Friese!

Jason Stuart is at the end of his rope... 

Some people say, once you cross a line, you can never go back.  No one believes that more than Jason Stuart who has been living on the edge of hell the past few years. He's lost the only person who truly matters in his life: Shayla Cooke, who is leaving town with no intention of coming back. 

Eighteen, alone and scared... 

Some people say you can't run away from your problems. But that is exactly what Hope Welles needs to do, because if she doesn't, she might not have a future. When she arrives in Arizona looking for her long-lost relatives, she comes across Wade Cooke who's been the social outcast for years. Just as Hope gives him a reason to believe his lonely days are behind him, he discovers things are never that easy. 

Welcome to Cookesville, Arizona where anything can happen, even love… 

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For as long as Patty Dixon can remember, she’s been in love with Greg Wilson.  The problem?  He doesn’t want to marry her.  In fact, he doesn’t want to marry anyone.  And all of her attempts to get his attention hasn’t worked.  Except, there’s one thing she hasn’t tried.

In a daring move, she stages a situation where he must rescue her.  Her ploy works, and she finally has the chance to show him that having a wife is just what he needs.  But Greg is proving to be harder to impress than she thought and all the fancy meals, beautiful dresses, and seductive maneuvers haven’t worked at all.

Is there any way she can secure her place in his life or has she just lost her gamble?

When Mitch Grady goes to a saloon to take his wayward brother home, he finds that his brother’s horse isn’t the only thing being offered in a poker game.  Heather Curtiss’ brother has bet her as well.  Vowing an innocent woman won’t be forced to give up her virtue to a disreputable gambler, Mitch joins in the game of poker, and with luck, he wins and frees Heather.

Heather sees this as her chance to get away from her brother and appeals to Mitch’s kindness to marry her, offering to help him care for two children and his ailing mother.  He agrees and they start a life together.  But Heather’s brother hasn’t gone away.  And Mitch might find that being with her is going to take more than a poker game.

One summer night, Sebastian Gentry, Lord Belgrave hauled the wrong young lady to Gretna Green. When her identity is exposed, the only obvious solution is to get an annulment. Only, just like his elopement plans, things didn’t go as planned and while she has reason to believe they are no longer married, he knows better. Wanting to make things right for her, he offers to help her find a husband…

Isabelle Knight has just been given an unexpected fortune and is in the midst of doing what she never believed she'd have to do: spend a Season on the Marriage Mart. Finding no one who seems to catch her fancy--or even seems bearable to tolerate until death do them part--her entire world is sent spinning with the sudden appearance of none other than her former husband.

Isabelle is in no position to refuse his offer to help her find a husband and reluctantly agrees, but what neither counts on is her future husband just might be the one she’s still secretly married to.

In Ruth Ann Nordin's story The Purchased Bride:

Ada Wilcox never thought her brother would answer a mail-order bride ad on her behalf. Worse, he's sold her--sight unseen--to a complete stranger. As she travels to Nebraska, she doesn't know whether to be angry with her brother or scared about the uncertain future looming before her.

Pete Kelly never thought he'd marry. Then one day his brother brings him a woman to marry, and the loneliness that plagued him for years in his quiet world is finally at an end. But the gift he was given might be quickly taken away if he doesn't act in time to keep it.

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Janet Syas Nitsick's story She Came by Train:


She Came by Train to a desolate land in the spring of 1876. With mixed feelings, Opal Preston steps onto the platform to meet her employer, Alexander Boyer. She accepts his hand and climbs into his wagon to begin her role as the governess of his two children. As she executes her duties, she wonders how she’ll cope without the finery she left behind. Soon two men are vying for her affections. Alex cannot imagine his life without her and looks for a way to convince her to stay in Nebraska. But a preacher from Virginia also is smitten with her and offers to take her back to Virginia. She Came by Train, but only her heart can determine if she’ll return that way.