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Chautona Havig

Chautona Havig

Using story to connect YOU to the Master Storyteller

I need to order a wider variety of my books, but I have no room for any more. Sooo… since I couldn’t decide which ones to put on sale, I went for ALL of the ones I have on my shelves. Yep. Why not?

Here’s How It Works:

First: one book on each shelf has a “FREE” sticky note inside. If you order that book, I’ll delete the cost off your invoice!
  • Choose your book(s) and click the “HERE” link to order (note: this just opens an email from you to me). Please add “BOOK SALE” to the subject line of your order.
  • Please put ALL your requested titles in one email. I’ll invoice for the titles I have left. This is definitely “first ordered, first invoiced.”
  • Shipping is free if you order more than three books. Otherwise, shipping will be at cost (because the big omnibus versions are much more expensive to ship than a small novella!).
  • I will send a PayPal invoice for the titles I have available as of receipt of your order.

Happy Shopping!

12 Dates of Christmas12 Dates of Christmas 

She’s spent the last ten years not forgiving him. Why should she start now?
When Reagan runs into her old high school nemesis, she’s flummoxed why he thinks she’d ever have coffee with him. Alex is stunned to discover he was a nemesis in the first place.
Copies: 3 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

Carol and the BellesCarol and the Belles

Their childhood letters formed the friendship of a lifetime.
Carol never knew what Michal’s life was really like, but it’s time to hop on a plane and fly halfway cross the world to find out.
Copies: 1 Price: $6.00 (each) Order HERE

Advent

Who knew secret Santa swaps could be so romantic?
Find out what it will take for Lita to get past her own fears in order to help Curtis have both the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years… and ever after.
Copies: 1 Price: $6.00 (each) Order HERE

The Matchmakers of Holly Circle

The Matchmakers of Holly Circle 

One neighbor challenges two others to a game of poker. The stakes? If they win, he’ll listen to them talk about Jesus. If he wins, they have to go on a date they’ve both wanted for ten years. Copies: 2 Price: $7.00 (each) Order HERE

Merri’s Christmas Mission

One woman’s quest to conquer Christmas For some, it’s just a holiday, but Barney discovers that for her it’s more–it’s Merri’s Christmas mission! Copies: 1 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

The Ghosts of New CheltenhamThe Ghosts of New Cheltenham

One man’s inheritance is dependent on him competing in a storytelling contest. He doesn’t have to win–just to compete. So what’s the problem? It’s a Christmas Ghost story contest (a la Dickens) and… he’s afraid of ghosts.) Copies: 1 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

The Bells of New CheltenhamThe Bells of New Cheltenham

She’s been working job after job to earn the money to pay back her parents for her college education, but one story contest might be all it takes to pay it off and beable to go home at last. Copies: 4 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

Ghosted at the AltarGhosted at the Altar

Mitchell has the world’s steadiest, most reliable fiancee. Right up to the minute the double doors open and… oops! No bride. It’ll take Mitchell, his bride’s little sister, and some fast finagling to figure out what happened and fix it. Copies: 4 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE The Nutcracker's Suite

The Nutcracker’s Suite

When Clarice finds her boss dead in the office and the mob’s “nutcracker” kneeling beside him, she’s on the run from whoever did it and praying it wasn’t the guy who swears he’s trying to protect her now. Copies: 4 Price: $6.00 (each) Order HERE

Christmas on Breakers PointChristmas on Breakers Point

He has just weeks to live and she just wants to give him one last Christmas present. What’s she going to do about giving him the impossible? Copies: 5 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

The Title WaveThe Title Wave

When Ezra kicks off her new bookstore boat, she didn’t expect one of her first customers to be her high-school crush–or that he’d be the guy half the women on the islands wanted to nab for themselves. Copies: 7 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

Trust FallTrust Fall

She’s got a price on her head and doesn’t know it. His job is to keep her alive without letting her learn about the danger. Copies: 1 Price: $7.00 (each) Order HERE

Deepest Roots of the Heart

When he comes home from the Pacific Theater, Avelino Carillo has one goal.  Work hard and earn back his family’s legacy–Casa De Los Suenos nestled among the grape vines in Napa Valley. Copies: 3 Price: $5.00 (each) Order HERE

Effective Immediately

When things start going wrong for Keith Auger, he begins to question all he knows and trusts, including himself. Can he reconcile his turmoil before he put himself and all he loves in harm’s way? Copies: 1 Price: $7.00 (each) Order HERE

Adoring AprilAdoring April

When a minister’s dream church comes with the expectation that he’ll marry, he feels like he’s been given a bait and switch. But a meddling member has bride, a wedding, and even a dress all lined up in no time. Should he risk it? Copies: 1 Price: $4.00 (each) Order HERE

Penelope's PursuitPenelope’s Pursuit

Her sister went west as a mail-order bride ten years ago and hasn’t been heard from since. Penelope’s determined to use their inheritance to find Prissy or die trying–and almost does. Copies: 1 Price: $7.00 (each) Order HERE

Come what mayCome What May

FOUR romantic suspense novels in one super-thick omnibus! Copies: 2 Price: $10.00 (each) Order HERE
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The Because Fiction Podcast

The Because Fiction Podcast
The Because Fiction Podcast

Taking the pulse of Christian fiction

Episode 549: A Chat with Laura DeNooyer
byChautona Havig

I’ve been anxious to read this one since the moment I saw it. I mean, come on! Secrets are always cool but then Frank L. Baum? And The Pilgrim’s Progress? WHAT? Listen in as Laura DeNooyer and I chat about A Hundred Magical Reasons.

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The L. Frank Baum connection was a draw, but then she brought in The Pilgrim’s Progress, and it took the whole story idea to a new level!

I had a blast chatting with Laura and I’m excited to read this one. It’ll probably be my flight read tomorrow. EEEP!

A Hundred Magical Reasons by Laura DeNooyer

Some fairy tales don’t end when the story is over…they begin when the truth is finally told.

At eighty-eight, Charlotte Rose Gordon has spent a lifetime guarding secrets—burdens that have turned her into the town’s most notorious recluse. But before her story ends, she has one final quest: to set the past right and clear her husband’s name.

Even if it means facing the dragons she’s spent decades avoiding.

Carrie Kruisselbrink is fighting dragons of her own. Fresh out of college and desperate to escape the weight of her parents’ expectations, she risks everything to chase a dream that feels just out of reach.

An unlikely job with the reclusive Mrs. Gordon seems like a temporary solution. Until it becomes something much more.

As Charlotte begins to unravel her past—from a stifling childhood to an extraordinary friendship with author L. Frank Baum—Carrie is drawn into a story filled with imagination, loss, and long-buried truth.

But the deeper Carrie digs, the more she’s forced to confront her own fears, her own choices… and the cost of living someone else’s life.

Because some stories were never meant to stay hidden.

Spanning generations and woven with echoes of a beloved literary legacy, A Hundred Magical Reasons is a moving tale of courage, identity, and the kind of hope that only comes when truth, grace, and imagination collide.

Can two women from different generations find the strength to rewrite their stories—before time runs out?

Step into a story of secrets, second chances, and the courage to believe again.

Learn more on Laura’s WEBSITE and follow on GoodReads and BookBub.

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Episode 549: A Chat with Laura DeNooyer
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May 25, 2026
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Episode 544: A Chat with Nicholas Teeguarden
May 23, 2026
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