Today I welcome author Delores Topliff as she shares about her latest release. She is also generously offering one lucky person the chance to win a free book.

Christmas Tree Wars, my second historical novel, has been the most fun to write of the four I’ve completed. I can show you the spot on a central Minnesota farm road I drove one Sunday when I saw a scene that instantly downloaded a story. On one side, I saw a row of healthy, tall evergreen trees but one lone evergreen standing alone in a hay field on the opposite side of the road. I instantly received a story concept of an ongoing feud, fierce national White House Christmas tree competition, and winning tree swapping as lives are changed by romance and the true sentiments of Christmas.

When the two feuding Wisconsin Christmas tree farmer neighbors have financial problems, one’s son and the other’s niece come home to help. Both try to increase business by competing to provide the White House Christmas Tree, but only one can win. The year is 1966. Lady Bird Johnson is the presidential First Lady who will decorate the tree in her favorite wildflower theme. During the fierce competition, the young people begin to sacrifice for love in ways that change the warring tree growers and remind their small fictional town of Balsam, Wisconsin, of the true reasons for the season.

Giveaway:

Comment to enter the drawing for a free eBook copy of Christmas Tree Wars to those with US addresses. Cozy up with this read and make your holidays better by also baking the authentic Norwegian and Swedish Christmas recipes at the end of the book.

About Delores

Delores Topliff, CEdD, grew up in Washington State but married a Canadian so enjoys US and Canadian citizenship. She began spouting rhyming stories in the third grade, basked in her classmates’ approval, and has been writing ever since. Two of her award-winning children’s books are rhymed adventures. Delores has published three historic novels since January 2021. Her fourth, Strong Currents, a sequel to WWII-based Books Afloat, will release February 21^st, 2023.

She writes and teaches online for the Univ. of Northwestern-St. Paul Minnesota near her two doctor sons and fabulous grandchildren. She spends the other six months each year in Northeastern Mississippi.

Connect online:

Website: https://delorestopliff.com

Facebook: https://www.face

Buy WWII story Books Afloat at bit.ly/3V8v2pd

Buy Christmas Tree Wars at bit.ly/3UN6a6H

and Wilderness Wife at bit.ly/3V9Lhmd

Strong Currents, sequel to Books Afloat, will release Feb. 21st, 2023