Review: A sweet holiday romance.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
I loved this story. It was a wonderful sweet story about four lost souls, finally coming together to make one loving family. Grace had lost her parents ten years ago, when she was only 18. Since then she's been moving from here to there, looking for a place that feels like home. She hasn't celebrated Christmas since her parents death. She had always volunteered to work those holidays, in order to keep her mind on the fact that she would never see her parents again. Then one day her friends ask her to join them on a skiing trip. She goes but after trying to show off, she breaks her leg in four places and ends up in a rehab center. While she's laid up in the rehab, she's  finds out that she not only lost her job, but she's also lost the apartment that she shared with a friend.Corrine is feeling lost and all alone, after she has a hip replacement and is staying in a rehab facility to mend. She'd lost her husband many, many years ago, and she hasn't seen her son (Who's a career Marine stationed overseas) in 12 long years. The only thing she has left now, is her friend, Ben, and her precious B & B that's been in her family for generations.That's where Corrine and Grace first meet. They are the only two in the whole facility, that never has any family members or friends that come to visit them. They band together and form a un-formal partnership in the B & B. Everything seems to be going just fine, until Riley, Corrine's wayward son shows up hell bent on talking her into selling the B & B and retiring.Riley left home and joined the Marines as soon as he turned 18, and hasn't looked back. That is until he's injured in the line of duty, and is suddenly forced to leave the corp for good. He knows his mother expects him to take over and run the family business, but he wants no part of it. He plans to see his mother, but only long enough to tell her he has no plans to take over the business, and to talk her into selling it and retiring.Ben has been in love with Corrine for decades, but instead of coming clean, he finds himself just sitting on the side lines and willing to be her friend instead. But after her surgery, he is around to help her get back on her feet. In the process, he falls in love with her even more than he already had. Instead of acting on his feeling and scaring her away, he's content to just hang around wait for her to make the first move.I would highly recommend this book!