In my December release for Kensington/Lyrical , WRAPPED TOGETHER, my main character, Hollis, has a thing for scarves. This is a seasonal book with a lot of holiday flavor, but Hollis arrived on the scene, scarf collection in tow and informed me that his need to be wrapped up would be a central theme in the book. As a knitter, I took
I became addicted to knitting scarves. For months this past year, long after I’d finished WRAPPED TOGETHER, I knit nothing but scarves. Green leafy scarves. Rainbow striped scarves. Cabled cowls. Cheerful chenille wraps. Soft stoles. They all flew off my needles, each quickly replaced by the next project. When I learned to knit twelve years ago, scarves were my very first project. I still remember the crinkly novelty yarn I used on an early scarf—my, how my tastes have changed!
After so many years as a knitter, knitting definitely feels like visiting with an old friend here, as much a part of me as Hollis’s scarves are for him. I knit my way through two pregnancies, making little hats and huge afghans to pass the long months of hoping and waiting. I’ve knit my way through countless road trips and television series and can mark time in what I was knitting at a given point in time—there have been afghan phases, a knitted box phase, a pillow phase, a toy phase, a purse phase, and of course, my scarf phases.
And through it all, knitting as been an integral part of my writing, something I return to when I’m stuck or as an
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WRAPPED TOGETHER
In the bustling restaurants, shops, and cafés of Portland, Oregon, things really heat up for the hard-working men behind the scenes when the holidays come into town . . .
For a stationery store owner, the holidays are great for business. But for Hollis Alcott, Christmas reminds him of the tragic events of three years past, and the last thing he wants to do is take part in Portland’s over-abundance of festive cheer. But Sawyer Murphy, a hunky gift shop owner whose brother is married to Hollis’s sister, has made it his mission to pluck Hollis out of his holiday blues. And his plan is beginning to work. Wrapped in the warm glow of newfound passion, the former business rivals hit up Portland’s finest holiday traditions–and Hollis’s icy attitude begins to melt like snowflakes on his tongue. But he isn’t sure he can trust anyone with the only gift he has–his heart–without breaking it like an antique ornament. Unless he can find the courage to take a leap with the one lover he never expected . . .
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