J L Campbell – författare

Fifty-seven-year-old Denise Jameson, an award-winning groomer who has been plying her trade for over thirty-five years, is the manager of Dog Wash, a grooming salon inside a Your Pets store. Denise works long hours, seven days a week, and her only desire is to see her favorite rock group, and favorite singer, in concert.The salon never has a dull moment with pets of all breeds and sizes, and the employees who help Denise groom the animals. There’s Christine, a groomer who brings her talkative and, at times, trouble-making mynah bird, Diego, to work with her every day, and Stacy, the other groomer with two small children and a third one on the way. Working with the groomers is Kathy, a young grooming assistant who wants to be a singer. Her constant singing at the salon gets on the nerves of Bob, another grooming assistant who is hoping to get accepted at a school for veterinary medicine. Cheryl, a part-time grooming assistant, is content just to work with Denise.Their lives intersect with Tony Lovic, a homeless US Army veteran, who would do anything to be employed again. One day, hungry and desperate, Tony asks his patron saint, Francis of Assisi, to pray for him to find a job. Then Tony enters Denise’s grooming salon, and Diego greets him by saying, “Dog Wash. Can I help you?” It’s an action that will change more than one life for the better.

Michele DaCosta, bridal gown designer extraordinaire receives the commission of her life-except that it's impossibly last-minute. On top of a stressed bride dealing with ghosts from her past, there's also a high-level blizzard attacking all of Chicago, trapping Michele with an over-protective bodyguard. Rajay Chamani's assignment is to shield the pretty fashion designer from the stalker who ruined a family heirloom and is now determined to use Michele as a messenger to the bride. The situation intensifies when the groom goes missing in action in the Middle East, and Rajay and Michele end up being snowed in. He's blindsided by one more complication: his growing attraction to Michele, simmering hotter even as Mother Nature has the last icy laugh. Only weeks remain before Chicago's biggest society wedding of the year. Can Rajay and Michele work together to defeat a stalker, defy a blizzard, and finish the world's most elaborate bridal gown to ensure wedding bells win over doomsday knells?ABOUT THE PROMISE ME A MIRACLE SERIES:Each book can be read in any order. Everyone on Chicago's A-list has RSVP'ed to Dro Reyes and Lola Samuels' lavish wedding of the century. The date is set and all the decadent details are in place Until they aren't. Within days, crucial components are crumbling beneath bizarre twists of fate. D Day is approaching but will it stand for Dreams or Disaster? Can Dro and Lola's friends work together to spin mayhem into magic?Book 1 Operation ButterflyWill the maid of honor who is detained in the Middle East make it out in time to be by the bride's side?Book 2 Operation DiamondCan the transporter survive her deadly past to deliver the rings?Book 3 Operation IvoryCan a designer pull off a last-minute repair to the vandalized wedding gown?Book 4 Operation ValastroWill the culinary staff be cured of a mysterious illness in time to prepare a feast fit for a King?Book 5 Operation LotusWill the missing florist and the groom who is trapped behind enemy lines be found and rescued before the nuptials?