Review: A sweet little novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2013
Yuletide Treasure is a sweet little novella about the power of love.  This Andrea Kane gem has two leads that appear in another book, The Theft, which I had read before this novella.  The Theft takes place some fifteen or so years later so it was interesting to see how Brigitte and Eric found each other.Eric is a very unhappy nobleman.  He is a recluse forced to raise his niece Noelle.  She is a handful but not necessarily a terrible child more of a lonely one.  No one in the village wants to raise Noelle and Eric is at a loss.Brigitte is a Vicar's daughter and she has always had a soft spot for Eric.  She has seen how much he has changed since his sister passed away becoming a hardened uncommunative man.  She offers to help raise Noelle but Eric will only hear of it if she marries him and agrees to live with him on his Estate with little outside contact.  She agrees to the arrangement.Eric is so drawn to Brigitte's warm nature that he struggles with his self-imposed distance.  She wears down his walls but it is tough going because Eric simply cannot forgive himself.  He blames himself for his sister's death and it isolates him from his niece and his wife.  But with Brigitte's love and Noelle's spunk Eric sees a hopeful future.