Which would be fine if they were barely-there secondary characters-not the case, at all. The blurb also omits all mention of Sam and Alex, Mark and Victoria’s brothers. It shows remarkable foresight on her part that he does so, despite their own rather miserable childhood. In a family without any semblance of close ties, she grants guardianship of her daughter to her eldest brother, hoping he’ll be willing to step up and do his best by Holly. The story starts late the previous Winter/early Spring, with the dead of Victoria. Reading this, you would think the story takes place right before Christmas, right? Well, it doesn’t. Three people who are about to discover that Christmas is the time of year when anything is possible, and when wishes have a way of finding the path home… And when she meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate need of a little magic. As the owner of a toy shop, she lives what she loves. But she does believe in the magic of imagination. Maggie Conroy doesn’t dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year.

His sister’s will gives him the instructions: There’s no other choice but you. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word.

One rain-slicked night, six-year old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother, Victoria. In fact, there’s basically no conflict in the novel.īut I’m getting a bit ahead of myself-here’s the jacket blurb: Luckily, I didn’t have to-I was one of the lucky recipients of a giveaway held by the lovely Christine (who happens to be one of Lisa’s Divas).Ī contemporary romance, this one of those rare beasts with nary a suspense thread nor a psychotic ex or malicious family members working over time to thwart a budding romance.

In all honesty, despite liking most of what I’ve read by Ms Kleypas ¹, I wouldn’t have picked this up for myself-$17.00 for a book that’s barely longer than a SuperRomance? erm…nope. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, by Lisa KleypasĪt just over 200 pages, this is another one of those skinny hardback novels put out by St Martin’s Press during the 2010 holiday season.

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