Celebration at Christmas Cove
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
In this humorous and heartwarming romance, sparks fly between a woman who can't wait to leave a wintry New England island, and a widower who would do anything to stay.
Travel magazine writer Celeste Bell is in a terrible mood. Not only was her flight to the Caribbean diverted to a Massachusetts island, now it looks like she'll have to spend Christmas there. Single and still mourning the loss of her mother a year earlier, Celeste is desperate to avoid any emotional entanglements and all holiday festivities. She just doesn't feel like celebrating.
But that's exactly what community center director Nathan White and his young daughter Abigail want to do. Nathan is entirely focused on making sure that his daughter has a happy Christmas, especially with the knowledge that if he can't raise money for the community center soon, it will close and they'll have to leave the island. When he meets Celeste, Nathan begins to feel a connection and wonders if he's brave enough to risk his heart once more.
Thawing their frozen hearts, and saving the community center will require a Christmas miracle. But tis' the season...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jansen (An Unexpected Amish Harvest, written as Carrie Lighte) puts readers in the Christmas spirit with this sweet if occasionally sappy romance. With an all-important Christmas Day deadline looming, travel magazine writer Celeste Bell is bumped from her flight to the Caribbean and rerouted to Sea Spray Island off the coast of Massachusetts. Her seatmate is Nathan White, a widower who runs the island's community center at Christmas Cove—and who just learned that the center did not receive a much-needed grant. When Celeste winds up stranded on the island by a winter storm followed by a series of mishaps and cannot complete her assignment, she's afraid both of losing her job and of spending her first real holiday season since her mother's death without the distraction of work. Luckily, there's a quirky cast of townsfolk on hand, led by Nathan and his daughter, Abbey, to show Celeste the spirit of Christmas as celebrated in quaint Christmas Cove, which helps her figure out a way to deliver a winning article and help Nathan save the community center—with true love as a bonus. The Hallmark overtones are a tad cloying but the story is saved by strong secondary characters. This is sure to satisfy.
