I first came across this book
when compiling a list of the Christmas fiction in the library’s collection.
The title certainly sounds Christmassy but the first subject heading in the
catalog is “Survival after airplane accident”. You might ask, as I did, what
that has to do with Christmas. As it
turns out, quite a bit.
Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas but as the holiday approaches, she finds herself divorced and alone, and
doesn’t feel like celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a last-minute
ticket and boards a private plane headed for the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately
the plane crashes in the Olympic rainforest. With no one knowing where she is
Joy decides to just walk away from her ordinary life and thus begins an
adventure unlike any she could have imagined.
Joy ends up in the small town
of Rain Valley where six-year-old Bobby O’Shea is facing his first Christmas
without his mother. Unable to handle the loss, Bobby has closed himself off
from the world and his father Daniel who is desperate to help his son cope. Yet
when the little boy meets Joy, they form a deep and powerful bond. In helping
Bobby and Daniel heal, Joy finds herself again.
Not everything is as it seems
in quiet Rain Valley, and in an instant, Joy’s world is ripped apart and her
heart is broken. On a magical Christmas Eve, a night of impossible dreams and
unexpected chances, Joy must find the courage to believe in a love—and a
family—that can’t possibly exist and go in search of what she wants and the new
life only she can find.
Hannah shows us once again the
power of love and that dreams can come true at Christmas and all year round.
3.57 stars on Goodreads, 4.3
stars on Amazon
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