Title: LOVE FINDS YOU AT HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Authors: Annalisa Daughety and Gwen Ford Faulkenberry
Publisher: Summerside Press
October 2012
ISBN: 978-1609366872
Genre: Christmas (one historical, one contemporary)
Love finds a home in two heartwarming stories of Christmas
past and present.
"Sweet Southern Christmas" by Annalise Daughety -- Both Ruby and Cliff have returned home to their small
"Small-Town Christmas" by Gwen Ford Faulkenberry -- Sophia never expected to return to her hometown, but she's converting her grandparents' Victorian mansion into a café. Then her childhood friend Jon walks into her café and back into her life. As Christmas descends upon the Ozark hills, Jon woos Sophie with a tender love that makes her feel like she's come home.
LOVE FINDS YOU AT HOME FOR CHRISTMAS is a sweet set of two
Christmas stories.
Cliff is a sweetheart healing from the death of his brother
and physical wounds of his own, and Ruby is healing from the death of her
fiancé and finding her place in the new world opening up for women in the work
field. Ruby is opinionated and strong, but it did get a little annoying that
she repeatedly told everyone she never wanted to marry. It began to sound a bit
like a scratched song on the CD that repeats over and over…
Jon, in the second story, has always loved Sophia but she
married another and ended up divorced. And now she can’t forgive herself, plus
as the preacher’s daughter, she feels rejected by the church. Will she be able
to forgive herself enough to move on and give love another chance? This story
wasn’t as well written as the first. I didn’t connect with the characters as
well, but Ms. Faulkenberry is very talented with description and I could “see”
the town as she described it.
If your in the market for a Christmas novel collection and
if you haven’t read this one yet, then don’t miss LOVE FINDS YOU AT HOME FOR
CHRISTMAS. It’s a great book to put you in the holiday spirit. $12.99. 320
pages. 3.5 stars.
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