Review: A Short, Sweet Christmas Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
Sara Brownell had married her boss at the import business and thought he was her love. Then she discovered he was involved in some shady dealings and caught up in violence, so she runs for her life. Driving north from California, she gets to Montana before she is exhausted and coughing so hard it hurts. When she passes out in her car on the side of the road, the local sheriff comes to her rescue. Trent Harding was a very astute lawman, who had trained for the FBI but decided he preferred his hometown. He has extra resources at his disposal and friends in high places. He'd always managed to stay away from the marriage trap, but he is shocked to discover how attracted he is to this petite fugitive and how much his Christmas wish includes her.I found a few errors in the book. There was some head hopping and the wrong pronoun was used, like in "with Jane and I" and "to bring Daniella and I." Taking a woman sick with a virus to visit a woman weak and dying from cancer didn't seem smart. Trent also first told Sara there were no motels, hotels, or B & B's in the small town, but then he borrowed a cot from the local B & B to put up in his house for Daniella. Wouldn't someone getting married need a marriage license and therefore couldn't get married at the spur of the moment? I did like it that the story was pretty clean with only about 3 mild curse words and no sex scenes or premarital sex. I found the story interesting and the romance sweet. It would have been better if the villain had appeared and added more tension and a few more pages. But, for a short novella, I enjoyed it a lot.