Review: Wonderful Christmas Romance!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
**I received an advanced copy of this book from the author in return for my honest review.**This is the second novel by A.L. Parks that I have read and loved!  We meet Eve, who is a strong, yet emotionally damaged woman following an affair by her husband and their subsequent divorce six years ago.  Her oldest daughter is living in England and her youngest daughter is spending this Christmas with her Dad and new wife.  She is trying to put her past behind her by selling the Colorado home the family had spent every Christmas in.  So she arrives in Ridgemont shortly before Christmas, dreading spending the holiday by herself.She meets Jake, a local firefighter chief, who rescues her from her stranded car during a snow storm and sparks fly!  Jake is funny, sexy, caring and makes Eve start to feel alive again.  She invites him to dinner to thank him.“It’s sort of against the Knight-In-Shining-Armor Rule Book to take compensation for our good deeds….”“There are rules?  Can we get around them?”They fall into an easy relationship, but Eve’s time in Colorado is limited and her three weeks pass.  And I’m sure like most of us in her position would be, Eve is stubborn and afraid to take a chance with her heart again.  She convinces herself that this is just a fling and won’t last.  She insists on returning to her home and job in Newport, Rhode Island leaving Jake heartbroken and confused.“If you go back there, you’ll never return, Eve.  You will convince yourself that it was just a moment in time.  You’ve already convinced yourself this will end.  Once you leave here, and get settled back into your life there, you’ll fall back into your routines and pretend this was all just a great love affair.”But Eve is too afraid.“It’s easier to lose you if I don’t have to see you every day….”This book shows you that when you least expect it, love can find you.  And life is not always fair or easy.  Can Eve work through her insecurities and open her heart fully to love and be loved again?Parks made these characters real and believable and the story is put into a setting that you will love.  It’s a wonderful Christmas romance!!  It is very well written and I highly recommend it!