Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
by:
Lisa Kleypas (author)
One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word.The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her...
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One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word.The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. His sister’s will gives him the instructions: There’s no other choice but you. Just start by loving her. The rest will follow.Maggie Collins doesn’t dare believe in love again, after losing her husband of one year. But she does believe in the magic of imagination. As the owner of a toy shop, she lives what she loves. And when she meets Holly Nolan, she sees a little girl in desperate need of a little magic.Three lonely people. Three lives at the crossroads. Three people who are about to discover that Christmas is the time of year when anything is possible, and when wishes have a way of finding the path home…
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429945424 (1429945427)
Publish date: October 26th 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
Series: Friday Harbor (#1)
Mark gets custody of his niece, Holly, upon the death of her mother. Holly has quit talking. When they go into Maggie's toy store, Maggie shows Holly a fairy house, and tells Holly she does not know the fairy's name but when she does she'll paint in above the house's door, and a conch shell which sh...
This book was awful. My say something nice is that I liked the cover. That's all I really got here. I am realizing that my Achilles heel for romance reads are any books that deal with widows or widowers finding love again. Not to say that they should not in real life. I just hate how the authors set...
I am ambivalent about this book. It's well written, I liked the characters. I didn't like that Mark was in a relationship with Shelby for over half the book. Mark does string Shelby along. Conveniently, Shelby does say something that I thought was inappropriate. What happened afterword felt too conv...
I’ve always loved Lisa Kleypas’s contemporary novels than historical though she is more famous for historical ones. Travis series is one of my favorites and I was looking forward to read her Friday Harbor series as well so started with the first book. The story is like this , Maggi was a widow and M...
When Lisa Kleypas started writing contemporaries I was a bit reluctant but her Travis series immediately landed on my favourite list and has since been re-read a number of times. All the more disappointing was Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor which isn't a bad novel, but about as average as possible w...