BLOGWORDS – Friday 27 February 2026– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – CHRISTMAS AT BLUE HERON INN by ROBIN E. MASON

February 27, 2026

BLOGWORDS – Friday 27 February 2026– FIRST LINE FRIDAY – CHRISTMAS AT BLUE HERON INN by ROBIN E. MASON

FIRST LINE FRIDAY – CHRISTMAS AT BLUE HERON INN by ROBIN E. MASON

THE BOOK

* because my writing has been on (unintentional) hiatus, and I’m diving back into my current WIP, starting the year focused on my books

THE BLURB

How may disasters can one Christmas holiday survive?

It all started with old wiring and a fire.

The Elliott family had always enjoyed gatherings with extended family and friends. Especially at Christmas. They had discovered Blue Mountain Chalet, near Asheville, North Carolina; it became their venue of choice, and had hosted their crowd the past three years.

Until the wiring in the hundred-year-old inn sparked a fire, destroying much of the beloved inn. And two weeks before Christmas, too.

With no venue, it seemed their fledgling holiday tradition was a bust. Until Gigi called on a friend who ran a B&B at Heron Cove. All systems were go and their holiday was rescheduled for the last week of January.

Until eighty-four-year-old Gigi had a stroke. On New Years Day. But with Gigi’s free spirit, and three weeks of recovery and therapy, and all systems were go. Again.

One disaster follows another as the family and friends gather to celebrate Christ’s birth. But even with a lost aunt and uncle, muddy dogs, a jellyfish sting, and dogs eating the turkey, there is joy and peace and laughter at Blue Heron Inn. And love. Lots of love.

NOTE: There is a brief episode of racism in this story that might be offensive to some readers.

THE FIRST LINE

New Year’s Day, 2018

“You guys be quiet.” Beverly Elliott covered her left ear as she pressed her iPhone to her right one.

THE AUTHOR

“I’ve always had voices—er, stories in my head. I once said I should write them all down so someone could write them someday. I had no idea at the time that someone was me!”

My stories are deep and dark, my characters raw and real, with a healthy helping of hope and joy, humor and laughter, and abiding and sustaining faith.

There is a strong element of friends, family, and faith in all my stories, and the difference it makes to have such a support system.

My characters struggle in some way for their identity. Their stories are their journey to know who God created them to be.

unsavory heritage series—seven generations, from Cissy to Connie, each with their own secrets, one of which is ugly and unsavory, and initiates the curse they all bear
Seasons series—four friends, each one struggling to know the truth of just what happened when one of them plunged into the depths of the black waters of the Edisto River
FourSquare – Four stories about four couples who also happen to be four sets of twins.

“Maybe you have to know the darkness to truly appreciate the light.”—Madeline L’Engle

“There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” —Erin Hanson

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