With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn’t headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another . . .
Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel’s sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm.
When Morgan discovers that the Reeds’ struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole town’s livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. She has all the inspiration for a spectacular event: delicious vanilla lattes, acoustic guitars under majestic pines, a cozy barn surrounded by brilliant stars. But she and Rachel will ABSOLUTELY NOT have a heartwarming holiday happy ending. That would be as unprofessional as it is unlikely. Right? (Goodreads synopsis)
This is Courtney Kae’s debut novel. It is very much a Hallmark-style holiday novel that is sometimes cliche but has a ton of potential. The feelings of the 2 female protagonists are a bit too quick for my taste since they haven’t spoken in 7 years. And yet, them getting together is endgame.
I liked the fact that Ben didn’t let the lack of communication stop him from reaching out to Morgan for help. However, the way Morgan describes the town, I expected there to be more of a resilience to her and not the scandal from L.A. I liked that Whitney didn’t let rumors or, potential stories, determine how she treats Morgan.
Overall, I rate this novel 3.5 out of 5 stars. I’ll be interested to see if Ben and Whitney get their own happy endings.
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