Rating: ★★
Audience: Contemporary Holiday Romance
Length: 204 pages
Author: Dobi Daniels
Publisher: Luxhaven Publishing
Release Date: June 15th, 2022
Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads

BOOK SUMMARY:

He might just be the Christmas gift she needs to heal.

Sarah Nash has no time for romance. She’d been emotionally scarred from her last relationship and has just managed to pay off the mountain of debts she was saddled with.

Now all she wants for Christmas is to rediscover Christmas joy—no love in the equation, and what better place than her hometown Dexington where she recalled spending the happiest times of her life. She is determined to stick with her plan and not even a chance encounter with Phillip—billionaire hospital heir and inventor, and the town’s most eligible bachelor—can change her mind.

Until she discovers he is the boy she kissed in high school.

Phillip Dexington is finally about to launch a new medical device after having his last invention stolen by his former girlfriend and sold to his archenemy. He’s determined that nothing must go wrong this time around—which means avoiding a relationship at all costs—and is content with spending Christmas with the children at the orphanage.

But when Phillip runs into Sarah Nash, the girl who stole his heart in high school, his world flips upside down. She’s only in town for Christmas, and the time before the launch party is Phillip’s only chance at determining if she is the one.

Will they open their hearts to the fullness of Christmas and give love a second chance, or will their trust issues rob them of a happily ever after?

This is a sweet/clean emotional scars Christmas medical billionaire romance with no cliffhangers and a guaranteed HEA.

TOO EASY.

This book started off fine, but since it was super short, it tanked quickly.

Everything was simultaneously too easy and too dramatic. There were true attempts at working through forgiveness and listening to someone’s story before making assumptions. All good things at the core, buuut, with no further conversation after it made those deeper moments feel shallow.

And things got dramatic. I can barely remember the exact details at this point because I already felt through with the book.

It wasn’t for me.

Overall audience notes:

• Contemporary Holiday Romance
• Language: none
• Romance: kisses
• Violence: low
• Trigger/Content Warnings: loss of parents, near death experiences

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