Silver Bells

The Shops on Wolf Creek Square #7

by Gini Athey

A bonus novella, Silver Bells, is the ending readers have been waiting for to Gini Athey's Wolf Creek Square women's fiction saga series.

Will a surprise on Wolf Creek Square derail Art and Marianna’s wedding plans?

Marianna Spencer and Art Carlson have managed to keep their engagement a secret for two years. That’s quite an accomplishment in the tight-knit community of shopkeepers and family and friends on Wolf Creek Square, a place where private lives are too often in public view.

Marianna wants their wedding to be a simple, joyful post-Christmas celebration—no bridal extravaganzas for her. Still, a fabric with silver bells printed on a dark blue background catches her eye and her simple wedding theme is born and her ideas flow faster than she can record them.

It isn’t long before Marianna is bewildered by the roadblocks she encounters planning even such a simple wedding. And Art surprises her by suddenly being too busy to even design and mail invitations out. That isn’t like him. Is he having second thoughts? He insists that’s ridiculous and Marianna keeps trying to make their day special. But when the wedding is mere days away, and the fabric she loves is suddenly unavailable, she can’t even have the wedding dress of her dreams.
Turns out her small, but joyful wedding won’t be anything like what she wanted… Or will it?

Kindle Edition

Published December 20, 2018

About the author

Gini Athey grew up in a house of readers, so much so it wasn’t unusual for members of her family to sit around the table and read while they were eating. But early on, she showed limited interest in the pastime. In fact, on one trip to the library to pick out a book for a book report, she recalls telling the librarian, “I want books with thick pages and big print.”

Eventually that all changed. Today, Gini usually reads three or four books at the same time, and her “to-be-read pile” towers next to her favorite chair. She reads widely in many genres, but her favorite books focus on families, with all their various challenges and rewards.

Gini’s love of quilting, both making and admiring them, began when she was a young girl spending time with her grandmother. Although her grandpa never understood why anyone would cut up perfectly good fabric only to sew it back together, Gini and her grandma knew the lure of doing just that.

In 1992 Gini opened Sweet Memories Publishing Company, a full-service business for professional quilters to produce and distribute their original designs. Twelve years later she sold the company to another quilter.

For many years, Gini has been a member of the Wisconsin chapter (WisRWA) of the Romance Writers of America and has served in a variety of administrative positions. Avid travelers, Gini and her adventurous husband live in a rural area west of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Reviews

[Barbara Byron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Light reading.... since written in area I live it added to the enjoyment