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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Christmas Wishes by Carmen Peone, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: Christmas Wishes
Series: Seven Tine Ranch Romance
Author: Carmen Peone
Publisher: Iron Stream Media
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Western Romance
One dream wedding. Two uncertain futures. A season of decisions that could change everything….
At Seven Tine Guest Ranch, Mandie Sellars serves guests as a cook, but her aspiration is to be the ranch’s event planner. When a surprise Christmas Eve wedding lands in her lap, Mandie sees this as her chance to shine—if she can handle the pressure.
Her fiancé, Hudson Piccolo, just took the call of his his dream legal job. There’s just one catch—the job is in Seattle, clear across the state. Accepting it means leaving the ranch and upending Mandie’s and her daughter’s lives.
Can their love withstand the tension between their ambitions and their commitment?
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My Review
I breezed through this novel, appreciating the mere fact of being back at the Seven Tine Ranch again and seeing healthy, loving relationships that are flourishing.
This is the second book that I’ve read this holiday season that follows an engagement and planning of a Christmas season wedding. They mirror one another in so many ways that I can’t help but wonder if this is how all holiday wedding planning goes. If so, I find it to be interesting and borderline toxic if I’m being honest.
I’m not sure why, but Mandie really bothered me in this story. I get that both she and Hudson are being selfish in their own ways, but she’s not pliable whatsoever. It seems like the only thing she can agree with is the fact that she wants to marry Hudson, and even then, she refuses to consider anything that goes against what she wants. Over the course of the story, this really started to grate on my nerves and that feeling never really went away.
I will say the surprise ending was a very nice touch, and such a simple yet sweet way to end the novel. I hate that I never quite connected with either Hudson or Mandie, but it was nice to see a happy ending. I read this in one sitting and really got into the narrative and the whole holiday wedding planning chaos. Once upon a time, I thought I was going to have my own Christmas wedding, but fate had other plans for me. But after reading several novels about planning a Christmas wedding, and the chaos that clearly comes with the territory, I can’t help but wonder if I dodged a bullet.
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About the Author
Carmen Peone is an award-winning author of Young Adult and Inspirational Western Romantic Suspense. With the love of history and the Western woman’s lifestyle, she weaves healing, hope, and horses into her stories. With a thread of romance. She lives with her husband in Northeast Washington on the Colville Confederated Indian Reservation.
Connect with Carmen by visiting carmenpeone.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.
Tour Giveaway
(1) winner will receive a signed copy of Christmas Wishes and some other Christmas-related goodies!
(3) additional winners will each receive a signed copy of Christmas Wishes!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight December 8, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on December 15, 2025. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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