Merry and Bright
A Christmas Novel
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4.1 • 22 Ratings
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Publisher Description
FROM THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DEBBIE MACOMBER
A novel about first impressions and second chances.
It’s Christmas, the season to be snowed under.
Merry Smith is overworked. Between family responsibilities, preparing for Christmas, and staying out of the crosshairs of her boss there’s room for little else. Her social life is the last thing on her mind, much less finding love.
Jayson Bright is feeling the pressure. Christmas is his most stressful time of year. Deadlines are looming, the holidays are coming, and employees are winding down. He’s the one left in the office pulling late and lonely nights.
Luckily for these two, their friends and family take matters into their own hands, and Merry and Bright are about to discover that love can be found where you least expect it . . .
Praise for Debbie Macomber
‘An ideal holiday book’
Good Housekeeping
‘If there's a star in the romance and women's fiction firmament, chances are high it’s Debbie Macomber’
Publishers Weekly
'A thrilling yet tender tale'
My Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Macomber's heartfelt, cheerful, and almost entirely predictable holiday contemporary finds a bit of freshness in shopworn romance tropes. Merry Knight is finishing up a year of temp work at the Matterson Consulting Firm as the holidays approach. She repeatedly butts heads with her boss, Jayson Bright, but she can't afford to make too much trouble her family depends on her income to help make ends meet. As a surprise, her mother and brother build Merry a profile on dating website Mix & Mingle. Meanwhile, ambitious but lonely Jayson sets up his own Mix & Mingle profile. Both profiles use altered names, so when Merry and Jayson begin chatting over the site, neither realizes the person they're quickly becoming attached to is actually their work nemesis. Merry's perky innocence and Jayson's maladjusted elitism grow tiresome quickly, and awkward prose ("Merry hugged her brother and, wrapping her arms around his torso, she gave him a gentle squeeze") distracts, but Macomber engages through endearing details, such as Merry's delight in roasted chestnuts. Readers looking for a light and sweet holiday treat will find it here.
Customer Reviews
Must read
Surprising Christmas romance at its best.