Love Rescues: What Love Can Do, #2

By Stephany Tullis

'It's all about what love can do'...

A Second Chance Holiday Romance

 

Love Rescues, Book 2 in The What Love Can Do Series. 

 

When life throws devastated and divorced Quinn Porter a second chance at love, she runs away as fast as she can from DJ Johnson. Can her best friend, Dee O'Connor, convince her that true love is worth another shot?
 

Dwight (DJ) Johnson is super comfortable with his laid-back, low-key life style. His music provides all the warmth, comfort and inspiration he needs...until he meets Quinn. Is she the Yin to his Yang?

Quinn's crushed heart is beyond repair; besides she believes DJ is much too young for her.

DJ's open heart seeks the first-time love he feels for Quinn. Age is just a number he argues.

Can Santa's helper and matchmaker Dee work her magic? After all, what can compete with the mystical ambiance and power of a Christmas love?

 

The What Love Can Do Series:

Love Strengthens, Book 1 (A Story of Love, Heartbreak, Forgiveness & Inspiration).

See BONUS excerpt at the end of Love Rescues.

Love Rescues, Book 2 (A Story of Love, Life & Second Chances).

Love Understands, Book 3 (A Story of Love, Compassion & Commitment) Available 2023

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond TK Publishing
• Release date: Nov 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201766542

Stephany Tullis

Stephany's life changed dramatically in the fall of 2008. The professional contract and business writer was unable to find the senior manager job she expected to easily find after her relocation to Atlanta, Georgia. The move was for family reasons and a little sooner than expected but was a part of her personal life plan. Refusing to succumb to the heavy disappointment of not advancing her career in a city with such promise, Stephany struggled to understand purpose behind sudden and unexpected life changes. When her oldest son asked, 'why don't you just write a book? Do what you love to do?', after a few weeks of thought, she decided to give it a shot.  She loved to write and realized that one of the reasons she succeeded as a proposal writer was because of her ability to 'create programs and program designs' ---so effectively that they were loved by her business clients and convincingly presented to and funded by grant sources! From inception to publication, Stephany worked for four years on her first novel, The Master's Plan, A Novel About Purpose. When thinking about how much she continually enjoys reading her debut novel, she writes, "I still laugh at all my favorite chapters and have yet to decide who is my favorite or least liked character. It's amazing! I was able to spin a tail around two frameworks that have had a major influence on my life: church and government politics. In writing The Master Plan, I was reminded of what a blessed life I have had and that despite what appeared to be very dismal circumstances, I was able to use my creativity and love of writing in a different way. Truly, I can see and believe, it was all part of a master plan."

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INTRODUCTION

~It’s all about what love can do~

A second chance holiday romance...

Love Rescues, Book 2 in The What Love Can Do Series. There are two stand along books in this series. Love Strengthens is Book 1 (See bonus excerpt at the end of this book).

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When life throws devastated and divorced Quinn Porter a second chance at love, she runs away as fast as she can from DJ Johnson. Can her best friend, Dee O'Connor, convince her that true love is worth another shot?

Dwight (DJ) Johnson is super comfortable with his laid-back, low-key life style. His music provides all the warmth, comfort and inspiration he needs...until he meets Quinn. Is she the Yin to his Yang?

Quinn's crushed heart is beyond repair; besides she believes DJ is much too young for her.

DJ's open heart seeks the first-time love he feels for Quinn. Age is just a number he argues.

Can Santa's helper and matchmaker Dee work her magic? After all, what can compete with the mystical ambiance and power of a Christmas love?

The What Love Can Do Series:

Love Strengthens, Book 1 (A Story of Love, Heartbreak, Forgiveness & Inspiration).

See BONUS excerpt at the end of Love Rescues.

Love Rescues, Book 2 (A Story of Love, Life & Second Chances).

Love Understands, Book 3 (A Story of Love, Compassion & Commitment).

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to my sister ‘Jo’ who has been there with and for me throughout my writing career.

Thank you with much love, Jo!

Dear Reader,

Thank you so much for reading Love Rescues. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.  Christmas and the holiday spirit of love it brings is so special to me and my family. And I love sharing this joyous season with my readers. You won’t be disappointed. Family fun, music, joy, and celebration of the purpose and reason for the season.

Feel free to share some of your favorite holiday traditions with me. You can email me at: [e-mail] or look for me on Facebook.

And I’ll be forever grateful if you would write a review (a short one would be quite okay) on the site from which you purchased this book. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Happy Reading,

Stephany T.

CHRISTMAS LOVE

For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son.

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

A Season of love, service and forgiveness. 

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Acknowledgements

More from Stephany Tullis

About the Author

CHAPTER ONE

Mystical Beats & Eats or The Beats, as it was affectionately called, screamed Dee's name as she finished up dinner. The Beats was the place to be on Thursday nights, Karaoke night. Dee checked her watch confirming she had at least an hour before leaving to meet her friends, Quinn Perry and Angela Johnson. Fun, food, catching up and a round of Karaoke guaranteed a perfect girls’ night out. The trio wanted to arrive early since everyone who was anyone, regardless of age, would be relaxing and grooving. Prancing in after 7:30 guaranteed no seat--'standing room' only.

Dee wanted to firm up their respective plans for the holidays. It was only early November, but they had a lot on their plates. Family plans, job plans, travel plans. This would be Dee and Quinn's first holiday season in Mystical Springs. The two had no idea what to expect. Home town girl, Angela, planned to give them the 411 on the town's annual festivities.

Mystical Springs, Texas temps in the low to mid 80's made Dee happy that she hadn't left Hot-lanta to be greeted by a chilly Texas. She and Kevin had purchased a few jackets, heavy sweaters and hats 'just in case' but hadn't needed to pull them out of the closets yet. Quinn, accustomed to cooler northeast fall and winter seasons had packed her coats, scarves, gloves, hats and boots--not quite certain what to expect but her closet guaranteed she'd be prepared.

For the first time in years, Dee and her