Inspirational Author Heather Gray
will get you in the mood for Christmas
with her heartwarming story,
Nowhere for Christmas
Back Cover Blurb:
Anything can happen on
the road to Nowhere…
A journalist and single mother, Avery is used to being in
control, though she tries to remind herself to let God take lead in her life.
Eli, her teenage son, is happy as long as he has his music, plenty of food, and
the occasional adult on which to practice his rapier wit. Gavin, a virtual stranger, is a
photojournalist who mysteriously disappeared from the scene a few years ago.
The trio ends up together for a Christmas road trip to the
small town of Nowhere. An eight hour
drive in a rental car turns into two days of misadventure and calamity as bad
luck stalks them. They get a flat tire,
the bumper falls off, the car overheats – and that's only the beginning! Along
the way they meet some interesting people – from a bait shop owner who
moonlights as a mechanic to a chatty preacher's wife and a highway patrolman
whose wife and mother can't agree on the best way to remove a skunk's stink.
Hungry, cold, and tired, the three finally arrive in Nowhere
only to discover the town is nothing like they expected. Reaching their
destination, it turns out, doesn't necessarily mean the journey has ended.
Excerpt:
"I'm going to have to go get the other big one out of
the attic," she said with a sigh, hoping her son would volunteer to climb
up in there and retrieve it for her.
Instead, he nodded and asked, "You want me to pull
the ladder down for you?" She grinned to herself as she nodded. They had a
regular battle about the attic. Neither of them liked going up there. Since
he'd gone up to retrieve all the Christmas decorations earlier in the month,
she'd let him have the victory this time.
After Avery scaled the creaky ladder up into the attic,
she scanned the web-dusted contents, quickly locating the suitcase she needed.
It was older and more faded than the green one, and it had a rust-and-mustard-colored
seventies floral pattern on it. At least
no one will try to steal it.
As she dragged the suitcase with its one broken wheel
across the attic floor, a cloud of who-knew-what gently puffed up into the air
around her. Then she got a mouthful of it and started coughing, which led to
more grime and dust billowing into the air. That, of course, led to more
coughing.
Avery lost her balance and started to fall out of the
attic opening, but the suitcase blocked her way enough to pause her descent,
giving her time to reach out and grab the back of an old chair that had been in
the attic longer than they'd lived in the house. The suitcase wasn't so lucky.
It fell zipper-over-wheel down the attic ladder and landed with a loud thud on the carpeted floor below.
By the time Avery pulled herself back to her feet and made
her way down the ladder, she expected to find Eli standing there wondering
where his dinner was. Alas, her teen was blissfully unaware of her
near-death-by-attic experience. He was in his room listening to his MP3 player.
It's for the best. I wouldn't want him to
pull a muscle laughing at me.
Author Bio:
Aside
from her long-standing love affair with coffee, Heather’s greatest joys in life
are her relationship with her Savior, her family, and writing. Years ago, she decided it would be better to
laugh than yell. Heather carries that
theme over into her writing where she strives to create characters that
experience both the highs and lows of life and, through it all, find a way to
love God, embrace each day, and laugh out loud right along with her.
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