O Little Town: A Romance Christmas Collection

by Amanda Wen, Janyre Tromp, Deborah Raney

Overview

"In this heartwarming compilation, three talented authors bring us the perfect blend of small-town nostalgia and holiday warmth . . . [as] timeless as the notes of a favorite carol and as softly luminous as lights twinkling on an evergreen tree."
—Amanda Barratt, Christy Award-winning author of The White Rose Resists

In this charming collection of novellas, join three generations of Mapleview, Michigan, residents longing for love—and finding it—on the most wonderful night of the year.
"Hopes and Fears" by Amanda Wen

Emma Trowbridge is determined to give her students the Christmas pageant of a lifetime. The last person she expected, or wanted, to encounter in her two-room classroom is her childhood rival, Frederick Oberstein. He would rather be far away himself. He wants no part of cheer, Christmas or otherwise. Can they learn to see each other in a new light—and embrace a new season of hope and faith together?
"While Mortals Sleep" by Janyre Tromp

While World War II rages overseas, news reporter Eleanor Sweers returns home to Mapleview to face the repercussions of the death of her sister and her nightmare of Christmases past. But the homefront isn't as far from the war as she thought: a bomb has landed in the middle of the U.S. Now Eleanor and family friend Gideon Braum may have to choose between the scoop of a lifetime and the love of a lifetime.
"The Wondrous Gift" by Deborah Raney

High school football coach Caleb Janssen and music teacher Rachel Hamblin bond when they both lose their jobs at a Christian school. But when they discover their plans for the future are mutually exclusive, the fallout threatens to tear them apart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780825447488
Publisher:	Kregel Publications
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	527,805
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Amanda Wen is an award-winning writer of inspirational romance and split-time women's fiction. She was a 2021 Christy Award finalist for Best Debut Novel for Roots of Wood and Stone, the first book in the Sedgwick County Chronicles. Her pre-publication writing has placed first in multiple contests, including the 2017 Indiana Golden Opportunity Contest, the 2017 Phoenix Rattler Contest, and the 2016 ACFW First Impressions Contest. She was also a 2018 ACFW Genesis Contest finalist. Amanda currently lives in Wichita, Kansas, with her husband and three children.

Janyre Tromp is a developmental book editor who has worked in the publishing industry for more than twenty years, spending time in both marketing and editorial. She's the author of Shadows in the Mind's Eye and contributor to It's a Wonderful Christmas, a Christmas novella collection with other award-winning authors, including Julie Cantrell and Lynne Gentry. When she isn’t writing, she’s a Bible study leader, writers conference speaker, ACFW member, wife, and mom of two kids and their menagerie of slightly eccentric pets. Visit her at janyretromp.com.

Deborah Raney's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title. Deborah and her husband, Ken, traded life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deb's novels—for life in Missouri to be closer to their growing brood of grandchildren. They love traveling to teach at writers conferences across the country. Visit Deb on the web at DeborahRaney.com.