Review: Christmas Sleigh Race
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2013
I have always enjoyed Karen Hall's Christmas stories and this one did not disappoint.  I found myself rooting for the heroine and  pleasantly surprised at the ending of the sleigh race!Its London in 1819 and Cameron, "Cam" Hunt, the ninth Earl of St. Cloud promised his deceased father he would follow the family tradition and get married--or at the very least engaged--by the time he turned thirty. Cam's time is running out. He will be thirty on New Year's Day.  He needs to find a candidate for his wife--and soon.There might be a candidate: the Honorable Lucy Guest, daughter of Viscount Pembroke, but Cam is never one to rush into a hasty decision, particularly in something as important as marriage. First, he needs to find a new rector for the church. The previous rector died and it's just two weeks until Advent. Where will he find another rector on such short notice?"Two weeks later, Pastor Stephen Fleming and his twin sister Amanda arrive in town with their Scottish Terrier Hamish. Even though he's never said so, Amanda suspects Stephen's reason for leaving his two previous assignments are because of her. Her outspokenness always gets the better of her.  When her first meeting with the earl, the man responsible for hiring her brother, is less than favorable--Hamish chases a rabbit, scares the earl's horse, which lands him in the mud and ruins his hat--it seems her bad luck is doomed to continue.Will Amanda ever learn to fit in?  And who will the handsome earl choose to be his wife?