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Today, award-winning author Babette De Jongh is guesting. She’s talking about her latest release Coming Home to Magnolia Bay, book three in the Welcome to Magnolia Bay series, a small-town contemporary romance. Don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway.

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Meet the animals that inspired characters in the Welcome to Magnolia Bay Series!

Book Three: Coming Home to Magnolia Bay:

This is a picture of my dog Jed, the inspiration for the dog in Coming Home to Magnolia Bay. All the cats love to snuggle with Jed.

My dog Jed is the inspiration for Jett, the dog character in Coming Home to Magnolia Bay. I found Jed and his two siblings after they’d been dumped on the side of a country road. I was driving into town when I saw these little ears popping up over the tall grass as the puppies bounded toward my car. I could imagine their little voices calling out, “Hey, wait for us!” I pulled over and got out of the car. At first, I thought, “How cute! They are covered in white spots! I wonder what kind of dogs they are?” They looked, from a distance, like African Spotted Dogs. But as they got closer, I realized that those white spots weren’t fur. They were the crusty, smelly scabs caused by Demodectic mites, also known as mange. I opened the back door of the car and said, “Get in.” The puppies didn’t hesitate. They boiled into the back seat of my car as fast as they could. I drove them straight to the vet, hoping they’d take the puppies, since the vet was (and still is) acting as the local animal shelter. But the vet shook his head. “The mange is too bad. It takes too long and costs too much to treat. They’ll have to be euthanized.” So, of course, I had them all vaccinated, bought the first round of mange treatment, and took them home with me. As soon as the mange cleared up, I found homes for the other two puppies (Jethro and Ellie May). Ellie looked like a chocolate lab, and Jethro was a handsome two-month-old puppy with a sleek black coat and a small white blaze on his chest. But Jed had developed a skin infection, so he was six months old by the time he was ready to adopt-out. By then, he had become just another solid-black, half-grown dog who nobody wanted. Believe me, I tried. I offered Jed to everyone I knew. I tried to give him away at least a hundred times. But nobody wanted a big black dog. So, Jed became my dog. He is, and always has been, a Best Good Boy. But nobody—not even me—recognized it. Because until I finally fell in love with him after a year of resistance, he was just another big black dog nobody wanted.

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Title: Coming Home to Magnolia Bay
Series: Welcome to Magnolia Bay, Book 3
Author: Babette De Jongh
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

People and pets find their forever homes in this charming small-town romance from Babette de Jongh featuring:

*A single mom doing her best
*Her young son who needs a helping hand
*An animal trainer who might be the answer to their troubles
*A bustling animal rescue where everyone gets a second chance
*The magic of humans who know how to communicate with animals

Blurb: Sara Prescott’s eight-year-old son Max wants a dog. But their apartment doesn’t allow pets, and the divorced single mom can’t afford the certified seizure-alert dog Max needs. Instead, she and Max volunteer at the Furever Love Animal Shelter. Max forms a special bond with Jett, a big black bully breed and three-time loser who keeps getting dumped.

Animal Trainer Justin Reed comes back home to Magnolia Bay and visits the shelter to find a dog actor for a TV series set in nearby New Orleans. Justin chooses Jett, but the shelter’s director rejects his application because Jett needs a finally-forever home, not a job with an end date. The shelter’s resident animal communicator proposes a win-win. Justin can use Jett as an animal actor if he also trains Jett as a service dog for Max.

Sara and Justin have no business indulging their mutual attraction. Sara is focused on her son, and Justin will be leaving soon. But Max and Jett have other ideas…

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Reva knew that Jett’s disappearance had forced Justin to recognize his animal communication abilities, so maybe everything was unfolding exactly as it should.

Reva hoped that right about now, Justin was realizing the correlation between his communication with Jett and the dog going to a human for help. Justin’s telepathic ability had helped the dog to get back home in less than an hour, and that was pretty amazing stuff. Maybe not enough to make Justin a believer yet, but at least a step in the right direction.

It was all tied together. Sara and Max and Justin and Jett all needed one another, and the problems they were facing were catalysts meant to bring them together. The threads were still too tangled for Reva to unravel, and she knew better than to pull at knots that weren’t ready to come loose.

Georgia groaned and stretched.

Drifting closer toward sleep, Reva yawned. As her mind relaxed and her body became weightless, she asked for clarity and solutions. She set the intention that the answers would come overnight. Then she visualized the problems as a handful of little birds waiting to be released. She let them go, sent them flying up past the ceiling and into the sky.

Tomorrow, they’d come back with all the answers.

Tomorrow, she would know exactly what to do.

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Title: Magnolia Bay Memories
Series: Welcome to Magnolia Bay, Book 2
Author: Babette De Jongh
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

Babette de Jongh brings you a bright and hopeful romance filled with:

*People and animals who get a second chance
*A community that makes everyone feel at home
*Friends-to-lovers romance that proves everyone deserves a forever home

Blurb: Struggling widow Heather Gabriel takes a job at Magnolia Bay’s Animal Shelter to provide for her family. She isn’t ready to be anything more than colleagues with Adrian Crawford, the shelter’s new business consultant. But the shelter’s animal communication expert Reva Curtis knows there’s more attraction between Heather and Adrian than they let on, and she’s determined to bring them together. With the help of Heather’s three children and all the animals at Bayside Barn, Heather and Adrian soon realize they can have a future together…if they can let go of the past.

Small town romance will never look the same once you’ve traveled to Magnolia Bay!

“Charming…a satisfying blend of romance and animal cameos.”—DEBBIE BURNS, bestselling author of the Rescue Me series
“Babette de Jongh’s books are crafted with heart and humor, roaring heat and cuddly love.”—JOANN SKY, author of the Biggest Little Love Story series

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Title: Warm Nights in Magnolia Bay
Series: Welcome to Magnolia Bay, Book 1
Author: Babette De Jongh
Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

Welcome to Magnolia Bay where:

*The animals interfere in their owners’ love lives
*Everyone (humans and animals alike) has an opinion about everything
*The neighbor is as infuriating as he is gorgeous
*And a sprinkle of hope is just the right thing to have you believing in love again

Blurb: Abby Curtis lands on her Aunt Reva’s doorstep at Bayside Barn with nowhere to go but up. Learning animal communication from her aunt while taking care of the motley assortment of rescue animals on the farm is an important part of Abby’s healing process. She is eager to begin a new life on her own, but she isn’t prepared for the magnetism between her and her handsome, stubborn and distracting new neighbor.

Quinn Lockhart snapped up the foreclosed estate next door determined to renovate and flip the beautiful bayou property. It’s all part of a plan to make a financial comeback and reconnect with his estranged son. Definitely not part of the plan is the noisy petting zoo next door dragging down his property value. But getting rid of it becomes more difficult when he falls for the lovely and passionate Abby and bonds with an abandoned wolf dog who’s mournfully waiting for his family to return. For humans and animals alike, it will take all the courage they can muster to learn to love again. But that’s a journey worth taking—with a little help from their furry friends.

You’ll fall in love right along with Abby as animals and humans alike find unexpected ways to connect, nurture each other, and thrive.

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Title: Hear Them Speak
Series: A Twelve-Week Course in Telepathic Animal Communication
Author: Babette De Jongh
Genre: Nonfiction, Pets, Animal Communication

Celebrate National Black Dog Day on Oct 1 with Hear Them Speak!

Blurb: Would you like to know what your animal companion is really thinking? If you’re holding this book, the ability is literally within your grasp. Hear Them Speak is an engaging and easy-to-follow twelve week course that guides you through the process of discovering your own superpowers of telepathic animal communication. With real-life examples to increase understanding and tasks to help you practice your emerging skills, animal communicator Babette de Jongh walks you through every step of the journey to claim your innate ability to hear them speak.

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Babette de Jongh is a telepathic animal communicator, energy healer, Reiki Master, and award-winning romance writer who has taught ballet, yoga, elementary school, and animal communication. Whether it involves a happy-ending romance, a way of self-nurturing, or help in understanding our companions, the cohesive thread that ties all these things together is a desire to save the world, one happy ending at a time.

Babette’s first romance novel, Angel Falls, won two Readers’ Choice awards. In Hear Them Speak, Babette helps humans better understand their animal companions. In Welcome to Magnolia Bay, a romance series from Sourcebooks Casablanca, a telepathic animal communicator conspires with the human characters’ animal companions to help everyone—humans and animals—find forever love.

All this is only the beginning for a late bloomer who is just getting started. To find out more about Babette, everything she does, and everything she’s up to these days, please visit her website at http://www.BabettedeJongh.com.

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