Welcome to day two of Cancer Awareness posts for 2021 on RLFblog. Today’s guest is Sadira Stone.

Thanks so much, Kayelle, for welcoming me to your blog.

Cancer research is a cause very near to my heart, because my mama is a breast cancer patient. By the time the cancer was discovered, it had already metastasized to her bones. I’ll never forget the day she called to deliver the terrible news: “It’s stage four. Please come.”

Thank goodness, she lives near an excellent cancer treatment center, Kaiser Permanente of South San Francisco, and is getting good care. The side effects of her treatment are rough at times, but she was diagnosed at age 79, and at 81 she’s still with us and enjoying life. In fact, we gathered in August to celebrate her 81st birthday in the California Redwoods near Santa Cruz—our first in-person gathering of the whole family since the pandemic began. Since we’d just moved to Las Vegas, I brough Mom a cap covered in Vegas bling. She loved it! Here she is enjoying her birthday cake.

Cancer has taken so many friends over the years, and now my siblings and I plan each family holiday gathering with special care, building memories while we still can. I pray for the day when science finally erases this awful disease, saving lives that would otherwise be lost too soon.

The heroine of Christmas Rekindled: Bangers Tavern Romance One, lost her mother to cancer when she was only thirteen, and that loss damaged her relationship with her father, a wound she tries to heal in the course of the story. Though humorous and steamy, this holiday story delves into family reconciliation and the importance of found family. I hope you’ll take a look!

Christmas Rekindled: Bangers Tavern Romance One by Sadira Stone

Genre: Contemporary Romance Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R

When two Scrooges unite to save a bar in trouble, a kiss under the mistletoe sparks the sexiest Christmas miracle ever.

Bartender River Lundqvist has a damn good reason for hating Christmas. Bangers Tavern is the perfect place to lay low over the holidays—until Charlie walks in. His first encounter with the saucy server nine years ago was utter humiliation. Her reappearance stirs up powerful desires and hopes for a new start. But the timing is all wrong.

Back in Tacoma to care for her estranged dad over the holidays, freelance web designer Charlie Khoury braces herself for the suckiest Christmas ever. A temporary job at Bangers Tavern gives her a chance to escape Dad’s criticism and blow off some steam. But why does the hunky bartender seem to hate her?

A pretend girlfriend is just what River needs to keep his family off his back—until a kiss under the mistletoe flares hot enough to melt the North Pole. When greedy developers threaten Bangers Tavern, River and Charlie must team up to save it. Their sizzling chemistry feels like the real thing—but everyone knows rebound relationships don’t last.

Come to Bangers Tavern for an enemies-to-lovers tale of reconciliation, found family, holiday cocktails, and the steamiest Christmas miracle ever.

Available from your favorite online bookseller: https://books2read.com/b/3JjPxP

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Ever since her first kiss, Sadira’s been spinning steamy tales in her head. After leaving her teaching career in Germany, she finally tried her hand at writing one. Now she’s a happy citizen of Romancelandia, penning contemporary romance and cozy mysteries from her home in Washington State. When not writing, which is seldom, she explores the Pacific Northwest with her charming husband, enjoys the local music scene, belly dances, plays guitar badly, and gobbles all the books.
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