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Spotlight, Guest Post & Giveaway : All I Want for Christmas is You (Coming Home #5.5) by Jessica Scott


Book Blurb & Info


All I Want For Christmas Is You

by Jessica Scott

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Novella (108 pages)

All Major Patrick MacLean wanted was Christmas with the woman and child who were his family in everything but name. But Captain Samantha Egan has come back from the war a different woman than the one who left - and she doesn't know if she can love him anymore.

But neither of them counted on the determination of a little girl they both call daughter and if Natalie has her wish, her parents may have no idea what's coming for them. It's going to take Christmas miracle to bring these two wounded warriors back from the edge of a broken heart.


The novella ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU is also included in November 11th release HOME FOR CHRISTMAS with Joann Ross.

Buy Links
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Guest Post

A Heroine's Journey by Jessica Scott

All I Want for Christmas Is You is a pretty personal book for me. Even though it’s a novella – and it’s 100% fiction – there’s some emotional baggage in there that is all mine.

When I came home from Iraq in 2009, I remember how badly I wanted to just sit on my couch in my living room and listen to my kids run around and play. And then I got home – and the fantasy didn’t quite pan out.

Like Sam, I felt like I didn’t fit anymore. Like Sam, things only felt “right” when I was at work around the people I’d spent the last year shoulder to shoulder with. And like Sam, I felt like I wasn’t a very good mom any more because I’d forgotten how to actually be a mom.

It’s hard coming home from war for anyone but I think that for moms, it’s a little different. Not better or worse, but definitely different. Moms have to be supermom just to get through a normal day – military moms even more so. I think we haven’t asked the right questions about whether going to war has different effects on moms than dads.

Sam’s story is an attempt to wrestle with what coming home feels like for a mom who couldn’t reconnect with her lover or her child. She was shut down and cold – and she needed someone who loved her enough to stand with her while she found her way out of the dark.

Sam isn’t me, but some parts of her story are. And like Sam, the war never leaves you. It sneaks up on you when you’re least expecting it. But like Sam, I’ve found my way out of the dark and back to a family that loves me.


I hope you’ll go on Sam’s journey home. I think it’s an important story to tell. 
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Author Info

Jessica Scott is a career army officer, mother of two daughters, three cats and three dogs, wife to a career NCO and wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She is a terrible cook and even worse housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot with her assigned weapon and someone liked some of the stuff she wrote. Somehow, her children are pretty well adjusted and her husband still loves her, despite burned water and a messy house.

She's written for the New York Times At War Blog, PBS Point of View Regarding War, and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of OIF/New Dawn and has served as a company commander at Fort Hood, Texas.

She's pursuing a PhD in Sociology in her spare time and most recently, she's been featured as one of Esquire Magazine's Americans of the Year for 2012.

Social Networking Links
Website - http://www.jessicascott.net
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JessicaScottAuthor
Twitter - https://twitter.com/JessicaScott09
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5131118.Jessica_Scott
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