Within days,her colleagues at Avon sent boxes of clothes and books to help the family recover. She and her family lost everything except the clothes they were wearing and her purse.
In October 1998, Kleypas's Texas home flooded within a matter of hours after heavy rains inundated their town. Her novels have ranked high on major best-seller lists, sold millions of copies around the globe and have been translated into fourteen different languages. Kleypas has been a full-time romance writer since selling that first book. During her competition at the Miss America pageant, Kleypas sang a song she had written, earning her a "talented nonfinalist" award.
Approximately two months later, at age 21, Kleypas sold her first novel.Īt approximately the same time, the 5'2" Kleypas was named Miss Massachusetts. She began writing her own romance novels during her summer breaks from studying political science at Wellesley College, Her parents agreed to support her for a few months after her graduation so that she could finish her latest manuscript. Kleypas has always loved to read, especially within the romance genre. Lisa Kleypas is a best-selling American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. Three people who are about to discover that Christmas is the time of year when anything is possible, and when wishes have a way of finding the path home. And when she meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate need of a little magic. As the owner of a toy shop, she lives what she loves. But she does believe in the magic of imagination. Maggie Collins doesn’t dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year. His sister’s will gives him the instructions: There’s no other choice but you.
But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word. One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor (Friday Harbor, 1)
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