The Historical Heartbeats guest today, is Author Marilyn Peveto. Marilyn is spotlighting her new Christmas novella, A Keepsake Christmas. After losing all her possessions in a hurricane, will Landry be able to celebrate Christmas?
Marilyn is giving away a $25 Amazon Gift card to a lucky commenter on this post.

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The hurricane drowned her Christmas spirit.
Landry Ledoux is heartsick when her home on the Texas Gulf Coast is devastated by a hurricane. With the holidays approaching, Landry feels she can’t celebrate Christmas without the special keepsakes that floated away.
Only weeks remain before Christmas, but their community is in ruins—homes, schools, businesses, and churches, too. Can Landry’s life ever reach a new normal while everyone on her street is living in RVs, and temporary shelters?
When Landry gets involved in her neighbors’ struggles she discovers the best possible way to help, even though it impacts her own recovery from the storm.
Despite her losses, can she find renewed joy in the holiday season, for herself and for her family?
Excerpt from A Keepsake Christmas:
Closing her eyes, she envisioned her world before the storm—lush green lawns, stately pines and oaks, flanked by an occasional magnolia tree that magically blossomed once a year. Now, wet carpet and mattresses and piles of furniture including her favorite sofa, lined the curbs. They could replace the furniture, but the stacks of broken dishes, the family pictures destroyed beyond recognition, the books from her childhood now smelling of mildew, took her breath every time.
But Mr. and Mrs. Edwards’s situation was far worse, since it could not be repaired.
Landry lifted her eyes to utter a prayer. “Lord, please forgive my selfish heart. I’ve been blind to the plight of others while I’ve grieved for the way I’ve been impacted in all this.”
She walked the few steps to their bed. As soon as David returned, she would switch off the glaring light she had insisted be on every night. It only signaled her insecurity after the storm. How could she have not let her faith guide her?
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About the Author
Marilyn Peveto is a lifelong East Texan from a family that has lived in the Piney Woods for generations. Her hobbies include reading, browsing in antique stores for her next treasure, and cooking her family’s favorite Southern foods.
She enjoys life with her husband of forty-three years, two adult children and their families, and her faithful writing partners, a little white dog and a geriatric beagle.
Marilyn is author of the Pine Curtain Chronicles series set in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
Contact Marilyn
This book really sounds good! Thanks for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving!
rw620 AT aol DOT com
Happy Thanksgiving to you Robin. Thanks for visiting.
Thank you, Robin.
So true! Be thankful ALWAYS, no matter the situation!
Happy Thanksgiving Laura. Thanks for visiting.
Laura, it can be difficult sometimes, can’t it? But it can be done. Thanks for commenting!
I’m a follower of this author! So happy to see this novella after reading her Pine Curtain Chronicles Series!! Love it!!
Thanks for visiting and sharing. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you, Annette, for reading and being a supporter and friend!
Thank you for this wonderful chance. Love discovering new authors to follow and new books to add to my TBR! I love ❤ Christmas reads! 🎄🎅🎄
Thanks for visiting. You won’t be disappointed in Marilyn’s books.
Tashia, I love Christmas reads, too! Thanks for commenting.
Thank you for sharing. Love discovering me authors to follow and new books to add to my TBR. I love ❤ Christmas reads! 🎄🎅🎄
Thanks for visiting.
This book really sounds good.
Thanks for visiting. Marilyn is a great author.
Thanks for visiting, Shirley. Merry Christmas! 🎄
Thank you for the contest! That book sounds so sweet and moving…
All the best!
S. Daisy
Book reviewer
Thanks for visiting. Marilyn’s books won’t disappoint you.
Thanks!
Thanks for your comments! Merry Christmas!🎄
It’s people that make the traditions not things glad u showed this
Thanks for visiting. You are so right. The people in our lives are the most important.
Ramona, it’s so true, isn’t it? Thanks for your comments.
The book sounds amazing. This is how I find books so thanks for the intro.
Thanks for visiting. You will enjoy Marilyn’s books.
Debra, thank you. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas!🎄
This sounds like a very good book I would love to read.
Thanks for visiting. Marilyn’s is a great author.
Thanks so much, Rebekah.
I LOVE Christmas Romances, Christmas books of any kind for that matter, There is something about a Christmas Romance that makes the Christmas season so joyous for me. I try to read at least one Christmas Romance a day, it makes my Christmas preparations easier. My husband calls me a Christmaholic because I always have a Christmas book in my hand, Christmas music in the air and Christmas baking in the oven. Marilyn’s Christmas Keepsake will stay with me for a long time. She took such a horrible event of the destruction of Texas by the hurricane and gave it the grace of a healing Christmas story and it shows what a wonderful story writer she is and how a great christmas story can bring you peace and happiness. She is truly a wonderful author.
Thanks for visiting. Marilyn is a great author. I love her stories too. Merry Christmas!
Nancy, your encouraging words brought me much joy! I so hope the story left you with peace and happiness. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas! 🎄
Thank you for this giveaway. Happy Holidays
Thanks for visiting. Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays to you, Terri!🎄