title: It Started With Christmas
author: Hale, Jenny
description: A beautiful, feel-good Christmas story. You’ll laugh, cry, and fall in love with this wonderfully warm and MAGICAL festive romance…
  Holly McAdams
   loves spending the Christmas holidays at her family’s cozy cabin, with its little red door and twinkling lights, tucked in the snowy hills outside Nashville.
  But this year will be different. Someone unexpected is joining them…
  After Holly and her beloved
  Nana
   struggle through a snow storm to reach the cabin, they discover gorgeous and wealthy
  Joseph Barnes,
   who has been renting the cabin for the last few weeks, is now snowed in. And it looks like he’ll be staying for the holidays.Determined to make the best of the surprise situation, Holly tries to bring everyone together by baking delicious treats and decorating the cabin with plenty of festive sparkle. She finds herself growing close to handsome Joseph, who is unlike anyone she’s ever met before, even if Nana isn’t so keen on the dashing stranger with the mysterious past.But charming and irresistible musician
  Rhett Burton
   is also back in town. Thrown into close proximity with the person who used to be her best friend and the man who broke her heart, Holly realizes it’s time to face her feelings and figure out what she really wants from her life. But to complicate things, both Joseph and Rhett have secrets to reveal…Will Holly be able to find herself and the love she’s always dreamed of this Christmas?
  Discover the joy of Christmas in this gorgeous novel, celebrating the importance of friendship, the magic of love, and finding happiness by being true to yourself.
  What readers are saying about It Started With Christmas:
  ‘Fantastic
   book,
  one of the best Xmas books
  I've read this year. A real
  TRUMPET-TOOTING EXTRAVAGANZA…
  It's really what Christmas is all about family…
  can't praise this book enough.’
   Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars
  ‘Full of Christmas charm and magic
  , this is
  such a heart-warming story
   that
  had me enchanted
   from the first few pages…
  fabulous
  …
  I loved everything about this book
  … a
  huge bear hug feeling…
  Definitely
  a story that kept me smiling
  …
  a gorgeous story
  .’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars‘Fills you with
  Christmas joy
  …
  utterly spellbinding
  … this storyline
  just oozed romantic love
  … a
   beautiful, tender, touching novel
   which
  left me covered in goosebumps
  due to the
  sheer beauty
  …
  blew me away
   and left me wanting more.
  I adored it.
  ’
  The Writing Garnet
  ‘This book was freaking amazing!
   Jenny Hale spun a story that
  had me laughing and crying
  ...
  I highly recommend!... feel-good
   story of love, happiness, friendships.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
  ‘Oh my gods, Jenny has done it again
  … another
  amazing delightful and heartfelt
  
  story
   that
  I just fell in love with
  and
   completely got lost in
  …
   a delight to read
  from start to finish…
  Everything about this book has been a joy
  …
  heartfelt and emotiona
  l…
  had me laughing out loud.’
  Mixing Reality with Fiction
  , 4 stars‘
  I devoured it in one sitting
   as
  I couldn't put the book down
  … taking me on
  a rollercoaster of emotions
  … a
  delightful
   sprinkling of romance… Joe and Holly's
  chemistry sizzled right off the pages
  …
  It Started with Christmas
   is
  a wonderful story
  .’
  Stacy is Reading
  , 5 stars‘
  I adored this book!
  ... Light the fire, get a nice cozy blanket and a cup of warm hot chocolate or tea and
  read.this.book!!!
  ... festive
  perfection
  …
  I loved everything about it!
  ’ Goodreads reviewer