Title: JUNE – The Pianist
Author: Judy Ann Davis
Genre: Holiday Sweet Romance
Book Blurb:
When concert pianist June Westberry inherits her late grandfather’s music shop, she returns to her small hometown in New York to renovate and run it. But she never expects to clash with the town’s ornery old music teacher, Nettie Jones who demands she find a lost, fifty-year-old holiday musical score.
Single parent and contractor, Leo Ciaffonni, enjoys restoring old buildings, and the A# Music Shop with its pretty new owner is no exception. When he’s injured, June finds herself caring for Leo and helping his little daughter bake cookies for her class.
As the holidays close in and the shop’s renovations continue, the problems June tries hard to solve only seem to become more chaotic. A# Sharp Music Shop is broken into. A harvest recital for her new students requires multifaceted planning. And the perpetrator and the lost musical score have not been found.
Will she be able to find peace and order in her new life this Christmas—and the love she’s always dreamed of?
Excerpt:
June tiptoed into the hospital room and eyed the patient lying on the bed. He was wearing his faded jeans and a white tee-shirt. His flannel shirt lay at the foot of the bed. His hair was mussed, and he was covered in bits of sawdust. His lower left arm was in a cast from his knuckles to his elbow. His right arm was draped over his eyes.
“Leo,” she said softly.
He turned and looked at her. “So my sister sent Clara Barton, I see.”
She walked up to the bed. “No, I’m supposed to be Florence Nightingale.”
He snorted.
“I’m your ride home as well, pal.”
“Where’s Clay?”
“You chased him away. The nursing staff out front is working on your escape papers.”
“I can wait for Lucy.”
“Lucy is not expected until late tonight. You got me, sorry.”
Leo sat up and swung his legs off the bed. “I’m not happy about this cast. Supposedly, it’s only a hairline fracture. I asked the Doc to just put a plain splint on it, but he refused.”
“Ahhh. So you can take it off as soon as you get out and away from the hospital doors? Why am I not surprised?” June rolled her eyes and shook her head. “Listen, I know you’re not feeling well. I know your arm hurts. I know you don’t want to be here. I know you don’t want me here. But what you don’t know is that Dellie is waiting outside the ER doors. Your daughter is terrified you are injured. So you are going to put on your best gallant Leo Ciaffonni father’s face, despite your churlish mood.”
She turned toward the door, then turned back. “I’m going to get her. And please, Leo, do not say a thing about all the sticky candy sprinkles in her hair.” She stepped into the hall and mumbled the last words under her breath, “And zip your lips on the pitiful mess we made of your kitchen while we were baking or I’ll deck you myself.”
“Now, just wait a second! Churlish mood? Candy sprinkles?”
But she had disappeared like a phantom.
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What I love most about the holiday season:
The holiday season arrives with a special feeling swirling in the air. It’s a time to reunite with loved ones, decorate with shiny ornaments and colorful lights, and turn on the radio for my favorite holiday songs. In Central Pennsylvania, the holiday season comes with soft lacy snowflakes tumbling down and the delightful, sweet smell of sugar cookies baking in the oven. It’s a magical time for friendship and family amid the superb sights, smells, and sounds.
Why is your featured book a must-read to get you in the holiday mood?
June - The Pianist is a fun-filled, short holiday novella of only 112 pages. Part of the Musical Christmas Three Book Series, it contains lots of humor and a touch of mystery. It features a concert female pianist returning to her hometown who agrees to teach a small precocious girl who’s adept at playing the piano. The child lives with her father, a handsome contractor as well as a widower and family friend. Can they work together to help June revitalize her grandfather’s music shop, despite an elderly Grinch-like music teacher constantly causing chaos? Start the spirit of the season for only 99 cents on Amazon for a limited time.
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Open internationally.
Runs July 1 – 31, 2024
Drawing will be held on August 1, 2024.
Author Biography:
Multi-Award-Winning Author Judy Ann Davis began her career in writing as a copy and continuity writer for radio and television in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She holds a degree in Journalism and Communications and has written for industry and education throughout her career.
Over a dozen of her short stories have appeared in various literary and small magazines and anthologies, and have received numerous awards. She writes both contemporary and historical fiction and is best known for “writing romance with a touch of mystery.”
Her contemporary romantic suspense and comedy, Four White Roses, was a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards, the Georgia Romance Writers’ Maggie Awards, and the American Fiction Awards. Her latest novel, Courting Betsy, a romantic western, was finalist in the American Fiction Awards as well.
When Judy Ann is not behind a computer, you can find her looking for anything humorous to make her laugh or swinging a golf club where the chuckles are few.
She is a member of Pennwriters, Inc. and Romance Writers of America. She divides her time between Central Pennsylvania and warmer snow-free climates.
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