num_pages: 187
description: After six months as a hostage in South America, Simon Kent is ready for an old-fashioned Christmas - the kind that Laura Reynolds writes about in Today's Home, the magazine that Simon reads during his plane ride home. So appealing is Laura's column that Simon tells reporters, "If I had my way, I'd spend Christmas with Laura Reynolds at Spindrift Farm." Amanda Richards, editor of the Salt Lake City-based magazine, is thrilled for the publicity. She knows Laura will welcome a Christmas guest - after all, she's Amanda's grandmother. Then a winter spill puts Laura in the hospital. So Amanda borrows a farm in Idaho, rents a husband, and adopts the role of Laura Reynolds. But a record-breaking snowstorm leaves Amanda completely on her own in Idaho - with a man she finds so attractive! What other surprises are in store for this pair?
language: English
title: Christmas by the Book: A Novel
publisher: Covenant Communications Inc