Review: A full-throttle romance to soften the hardest heart!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2012
This splendid novella should be mandatory reading for anyone with the Christmas blues.  Beautiful young divorcee Lexi is a TV personality who inadvertently moves in next door to Kyle, a New York Times best-selling author.  Lexi's son and daughter are huge fans of Kyle Miller's mystery thrillers but Lexi's relationship with Kyle gets off totally on the wrong foot.  Lexi's heart is hardened against any male relationship intruding in on her ordered life and Kyle is still broken-hearted for his long deceased mother who died on Christmas Eve.  Kyle's entire family still grieves for the missing woman in all their lives and Christmas has been neither tolerated nor celebrated in their households for 20+ years.  The entire story only spans the week prior to Christmas and the romantic pace is breathless.  The outcome is easily discerned by any reader but the 'getting there' is what makes this story so heart-warming, poignant, and dreamy. The snowman theme is exploited to the fullest effect thoughout the tale with sweet humor.  The author's romance is wholesome, appropriate for all ages, and appeals to the heart rather than the flesh.  I loved-loved-loved it!