Quaint Christmas or quirky vacation? Newcomer Maggie Iverson comes to the small resort town of Snowfall, Vermont, for a one-week reprieve from her high-powered marketing job in Boston. She’s designing a new website to boost tourism traffic (both virtual and foot) to Snowfall for the holidays. She enthusiastically throws herself into all things Christmas, but deftly dodges each match-making hint.
Long-time bachelor and veterinarian Alden Marshall has never embraced the holiday season, but when he meets Maggie, their chemistry is powerful enough to light up a dozen Christmas trees. Suddenly he finds himself immersed in the town’s merry-making with Maggie by his side. Will the magic of Christmas cast the spell Maggie and Alden need to let go of their pasts and finally find a love that lasts?
Title: Christmas Comes to Snowfall
Series: — — —
Author: Erika Marks
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published: October 23, 2018
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Christmas Comes to Snowfall might come in a small, short story package but it certainly delivers a huge Christmasy feeling romance to fall into this season. Really. What’s not to love about a Christmas Curse, a town with a long memory and a grudge, a workaholic visitor and a hometown boy falling in love with maybe some help from the resident matchmaker? Exactly. It’s the perfect Christmas Romance storm and I loved every single moment spent in the town of Snowfall with it’s quirky residents, a curse that may or may not be still in action and watching two people who are right for each other discover that for themselves.
Alden and Maggie both need to let go of their pasts, maybe in different ways, but until they put all that behind them it’s going to be difficult to move forward… or to fall in love. While Alden doesn’t normally fall for all the Christmas glitz that the town puts on, Maggie is eating it all up. Oh, she could say that it’s for research to create a fantastic website to boost Snowfall’s tourism … but she’s also loving everything Christmasy about this place. Maggie is only in town for a week, but that’s long enough to be captivated by the town and it’s history, and maybe long enough to risk her heart by falling in love again. Alden has just about had it with some of the older residents of Snowfall still blaming him and his family for that silly Curse, and as a result Christmas isn’t exactly his favorite time of year. Yet Maggie is changing that, changing him and if he’s not careful he’s going to find himself falling in love.
I happen to love quirky, small town romances so much, and Erika Marks does them so well. I had fun with Maggie and Alden, as well as the residents of Snowfall. Truthfully, I wish it had been a little bit longer, an epilogue would have been awesome… but that’s my own wishes. I never know if the way a story flows is the author’s choice, the editors or the publishing house – so I’m careful about saying some things in reviews… but I really would have loved to experience more of Snowfall… maybe a series next Christmas? Just wishin’ here. *grin* If you love Christmas Romance then you’ll want to pick up Christmas Comes to Snowfall, it’s going on my yearly re-read list and that’s the highest compliment I can give a Christmas Romance… to want to experience it again, next year.
*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*
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