About the Books
Book: Mistletoe Melody and Mistletoe Mission
Author: Stacey Weeks
Genre: Contemporary inspirational romance
Release Date: Book 1 (December 1, 2018) Book 2 (December 1, 2019)
Mistletoe Melody:
Former musician, Melody Staff, spends Christmas at a bed and breakfast in the village of Mistletoe Meadows. While everyone sings familiar carols of Christ drawing near, Melody stumbles over misplaced notes. Her recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis has scared off her fiancé and thrust her life into a grand pause. She’s not sure her heart will ever sing again.
Quentin Oxford has endured a devastating year. His preteen daughter suffered a stroke, and they’ve grieved his wife’s sudden death, but the Lord coaxes a surprising refrain from Quentin’s heart as God rewrites his and Melody’s score into a holiday love song that will last for Christmases to come.
Mistletoe Mission: 
While her own relationships always end up doomed, Emily Colt is still determined to create happily-ever-afters through her wedding and event planning business. In hopes of expanding her business, she enters her latest project–staging the Christmas wedding of the year–into a town-wide contest. But between crossing paths with the first man to break her heart and dodging a saboteur, she doubts even career success is within her grasp.
Jilted pastor, Luca Wilson, fled to the mission field to escape a broken heart. All the hurt rushes back when he returns home to officiate his cousin’s wedding, and he finds Emily, the girl to whom he once promised forever, organizing the celebration. Despite his lost faith in love, their unforeseen reunion rekindles a spark, and Luca vows to help her save her struggling business. But to succeed, they will have to learn what it means to trust each other and believe in the God of Christmas miracles.
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These two stories are stand alone novels but share the same town and the some of the same characters. I loved both stories and went to the amazon page where they are available to purchase and seen there was another book "Under the Summer Mistletoe " which is only 15 pages, I haven't read it but I did download it to read. If it is as good as the other two, I will be glad I got it.
In "Mistletoe Melody" Melody Staff has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and her finance calls off the wedding and Quentin Oxford has stuffed the loss of his wife and his daughter's stroke. This is a short read that makes this reader smile and is a reminder that God does care about our struggles and can bring beauty from ashes. I know I have said that statement a lot but isn't that like God to turn suffering into joy, when we turn to Him. I was surprised to learn facts about mistletoe, one such fact was some varieties can be made into teas. I was surprised that Melody wanted to keep her illness a surprise, but I know fear can hold us back.
"Mistletoe Mission" is about a wedding planner and a preacher and there second chance at love. I know we aren't to dislike people but I have to say there is a character in this book that I wanted to dislike, she was full of superstitions and she complained about everything about the wedding.
I really liked the ending, I really didn't see some of happening. I would love to see these two books made into a Hallmark movie. I would love to see the wedding scene in color and not just on paper.
"Mistletoe Mission" is my favorite of the two because I feel the characters had more to overcome and they had more to lose if they didn't follow their dreams.
I recommend these books and I think they would be good to read anytime of the year not just at Christmas time.
I like the fact that these stories are based on some real events and actual people in the author's life but are still fiction.
I was given a complimentary copy by the author and Celebrate Lit. These are my own opinions.
About the Author
Stacey Weeks is the multi-award-winning author of
Glorious Surrender (2016) and
Chasing Holiness(2020), inspirational romances
The Builder’s Reluctant Bride (2016),
Mistletoe Melody (2018),
Mistletoe Mission (Dec 2019) and inspirational romantic suspense novels
In Too Deep (2017), and
Fatal Homecoming (2019). Stacey lives in Ontario where she speaks at women’s conferences, teaches writing and bible study workshops, and writes about the things of the Lord.
www.staceyweeks.com
More from Stacey
It is strange, sometimes, what inspires a story. At the time of writing Mistletoe Melody, the ten-year-old daughter of a good friend was on the recovery side of a massive stroke. This young girl inspired Janie, and she gave the character her contagious smile, a mischievous pre-teen sense of humor, and a fierce love for family. You don’t read all of Janie’s story in Mistletoe Melody, but perhaps you will in a later novella.
Melody was the result of my lovely twenty-something niece receiving a shocking diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. She endured painful tests, had hopes raised and dashed, and was blessed when the Lord saw fit to work through a drug trial to ease her suffering. Watching her life, her plans, and the things she assumed were a given for her future get shaken to their core sent me to the Scriptures.
Not too long before drafting Mistletoe Mission (book two set in Mistletoe Meadows), my husband and I travelled to Haiti. As our driver transported us from the airport to the compound on which we stayed for the duration of our trip, he pointed in the general direction of the beach that receives cruise ships and tourists. He said that portion of Haiti is separated from the rest and is considered by some to be the most beautiful section of Haiti. I disagree.
To be fair, I didn’t visit the cleaned-up beach just around the other side of the mountain, but I saw something most tourists do not get to see. I met the people and visited several in their homes. I witnessed the determination and hard work that life requires from them. I observed a light in their eyes, fueled by a love for Jesus. There is nothing more beautiful than a person on fire for the Lord, a person who is ready to be a light in a dark land.
Luca’s character is loosely based on the Director of Missions and Compassion at Hope Bible Church in Oakville, Ontario. He arranged our trip – my first overseas mission trip – and it changed my life. I have huge respect for the work he is doing, and I am thrilled to see how God is blessing the work.
Another real-life connection that made its way into
Mistletoe Mission is a business that inspired the fictional start-up I called One Village. Little by Little is a business for mission committed to empowering Haitian parents. Little by Little sells the Morse Code bracelet featured in Mistletoe Mission. I fell in love with the concept of this business, and it was my delight to write a fictional version into the story. You can visit Little by Little’s website and order a bracelet like the one featured in the book (or maybe you’ll win the one I am giving away on this tour!).
http://www.littlebylittle.ca/store/p326/morse-code-bracelet.html
Be blessed this holiday as you seek the Lord who has done and is doing great things.
Stacey
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