Series: Holiday Harbor: Book 2
Publisher: Mirror Press
Release Date: September 22, 2020
Genre: Clean Contemporary Romance
Welcome to the small town of Holiday, Alabama, population 765. In Holiday everyone knows their neighbors—and their business . . .
Nearly four years have passed since Anna Lawrence fled her hometown the same day her best friends broke her heart and she was left at the altar. She’s hardly looked back since, while forging a new and solitary life in Seattle. When duty calls her home, she reluctantly returns to take care of the family store while her parents are away.
Eli Steiner is visiting his late great-grandfather’s estate in Holiday, Alabama, for the first and last time—to see the place he’s inherited and meet the other benefactor of his great-grandfather’s will before turning everything over to her. When the woman he meets is both the same, and very different, from the one in his grandfather’s letters, Eli’s intrigue leads him to stay longer, to uncover the mystery of Anna Lawrence and possibly heal her heart.
My Review 🧡
I have always had issues with stories of cheating, and the first book of this series was hard for me to read, but I also wanted to hear Anna's side of the story, and I finally got my chance! What Anna went through was inconceivable, so where we find her four years after being left at the altar, isn't really a surprise, but heartbreaking nonetheless.
Bitterness and unforgiveness has left her frozen in life, simply going through the motions, and sadly has kept her estranged from her family and life in Holiday, Alabama for four long years. An illness and a death brings Anna back home and face to face with the past she has fought so hard to distance herself from. She is forced to take a hard look at herself, fight for herself again, let go of the bitterness that has been her cocoon for so long, and forgive the unforgivable.
I was instantly hooked and vested in Anna's incredibly difficult predicament and the horrible wrong that was done to her. The incredible writing of Michele Paige Holmes puts you in the heart of each character and in the picturesque town of Holiday, bringing this world alive.
Finding truth, faith, and incredible forgiveness within these pages is stunning. Anna is a character that I can easily identify with, one that shows true strength, and one I wholeheartedly admire. She's the girl you know deserves the greatest happy ending. I found myself struggling along with Anna with her feelings against Carson and Bree, and still have my reservations about them, even though there is a resolution in this book with that whole situation. It's really made me ponder if I am as forgiving as I have always assumed, but that's a chat for another time.
I feel privileged to have read this wonderful book and cannot recommend Home Sweet Holiday enough!
About the Author
Michele Paige Holmes spent her childhood and youth in Arizona and northern California, often curled up with a good book instead of out enjoying the sunshine. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Elementary Education and found it an excellent major in which to indulge her love of children’s literature.
She is the author of ten published romance novels, including contemporary series, Hearthfire Historicals, and the Forever After series. She is also the author of four novellas, three in the Timeless Romance Collection.
When not reading or writing romance, Michele is busy with her full time job as a wife, mother, and grandmother. She and her husband live in Utah with their five high maintenance children and a shitzu that resembles a teddy bear.
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*I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from the author. All views and opinions are completely honest, and my own.
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