Christmas reads would be the same without settling down with
a book from Debbie Macomber and this book you get two for the price of one.
In this first delightful story we meet Mary-Jo who is heavy pregnant
on the day before Christmas Eve listening to her brothers discussing how they
are going to get David Rhodes to setup to the plate for her. The four of them
are a quite close knit have been they were kids when their parents died they
have been there each other and this is no different. Mary-Jo sends the boys to
bed but has her own plan to get to David or his family before her brothers do,
so she sets of early hours of Christmas Eve for Cedar Cove as she remember
David saying that he was visiting his family at Christmas, so she jumped in her
car and headed out leaving a note for the boys!!! As she needed a head start before
her brothers?
Arriving at Cedar Cove she didn’t know where to begin the search
she took refused in a local café for refreshments and maybe some information from
some locals, but the young man that served her was very friendly but was unable
to help her apart from steer her in the direction of the Library and see Grace
Harding she knows all and nearly everyone in Cedar Cove. Mary-Jo walks into the
Library she is welcomed with another friendly environment and was greeted by
Grace welcomed smile and once she explained her situation and that she needs to
find David or his family. But once again David spreads his lies as he was never
coming back home as his parents are away on a cruise and returning on Christmas
Day , but would find out more information for her. While making inquiries she
called her best friend Olivia who was David step sister and informed her of
Mary-jo, which in turn sent Olivia straight over to meet the young lady. Olivia
informs Mary-Jo that herself and her parents have not seen or heard from David
in some time and that there’s was no love lost between them. Grace and Olivia convince
Mary-Jo to stay the night but she is not used to all this welcome and the will
to help her and this was all too much to take on board she faints. The ladies
call out the fire fighters who are
medical trained , when she comes round , she has a handsome man called Mack
checking her over to muck sure she is ok and from the first eye contact they
have a connection . Mary-Jo is ordered with her feet up, but she knows that her
brothers will soon be here. To Mary-Jo delight Grace takes her in for the night
and is welcomed in with opened arms from her family. But is still shocked by
all the kindness she has receives so when ask to go to the carol service she
decided to stay behind and rest up and try and get hold of her brothers but
they are hot on her tail but have manged to get lost but turn up at the fire
station where them meet with Mack who attended to Mary-jo this morning, and
that every time they mother had a dizzy spell in late term meant that the baby
was on its way. So when Mack receives a silent call he knows that it’s Mary-Jo.
While the brothers find the way to her, will her baby arrive safely on Christmas
Eve and find her prince charming after all.
In the second part of this delightful book we come across the
second story and if you are a fan of Miracle on 34th street then
this story is for you.
We meet a Christmas worker Emily Merkle but the HR department
have named her Miracle and she is working on the toy department as temp Christmas
staff at Finley’s. The head department is Jake is out to make a point to his
father that he can stand in his own two
feet so orders in 500 units of a robot toy
for the Christmas market, but they need a Christmas miracle to sell all
the units in time . Also Jakes day is not getting any better as he takes a dislike
to Mrs Miracle and feels she is too old for the job on this department, but
this does not stop her she uses some charm on Jake to go for a morning coffee
as he hasn’t had one yet. So Jake finds himself going for coffee in the nearby
coffee house waiting in line to order, while he helps the lady in front with
her bill, and from the moment he meet Holly he wanted know more about her. So
when she came to visit the store at the weekend with her nephew his wish came
true.
Holly year had not
been the been the best broken up from
her long term relationship her brother is sent to war and she is custody of her
nephew and dealing with school runs and works which looks like she will be
losing her Christmas bonus so money is tight. So on their visit she is hoping
he picks lots of items so she can have a selection of gift to pick for her
budget but Gabe heads straight to the robot toy which is the most expensive
item on the department and fears that she can’t get the item, she bumps into
Jake while she is there and the sparks fly. She like Jake but is still nursing
a broken heart and is not sure she is ready to open up again to love.
But Mrs Miracle is spreading her charm again by telling Jake
that he should not worry about the robots and Telling Holly that will be Gabe
best ever Christmas, but with Jake not celebrate the Christmas time she finds
his hard to try and believe, but the more time they spend together he opens up
and explains that 20 years ago his mother and sister where killed on Christmas eve
so it’s hard to celebrate the time of year for him and his father.
Can Mrs Miracle save Christmas for everyone, will Holly get
her life back on track and open up her
heart to love again with Jake.
Well that’s where I leave you go and grab and copy and read
to fabulous Christmas reads.
