title: The Fruitcake Challenge: Christmas Traditions Series
author: Dr. Carrie Fancett Pagels
description: Carrie Fancett Pagels, Ph.D. (www.carriefancettpagels.com) Hearts Overcoming Through Time is the author of "The Fruitcake Challenge" (2014), "The Lumberjacks' Ball" (2015), and Lilacs for Juliana (2015) in The Christy Lumber Camp Series. The Christmas Traditions Collection, an Eight-in-One set, includes Carrie's Selah Award Finalist, "The Fruitcake Challenge." "The Substitute Bride" releases in 2015. Her short story, Snowed In, was published in Guidepost Books A Cup of Christmas Cheer (2013). Carries novella, Return to Shirley Plantation: A Civil War Romance was an Amazon top-rated and best selling book. Contributor to Selah finalist Gods Provision in Tough Times (2013). Carrie won in Historical Genre for short story, The Quilting Contest, published in the anthology for Family Fictions "The Story 2014". She was a Maggie Awards finalist 2014. Administrates two popular group blogs: www.OvercomingWithGod.com and www.ColonialQuills.org. Carrie served as a psychologist for twenty-five years. Married with an adult daughter and middle school aged son.
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