Title:  Falling For Christmas
Series:  prequel Falling For The Freemans
Author:  Kate Hewitt
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published:  November 9, 2015
Publisher:  Tule Publishing
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Welcome to Creighton Falls, New York… a town time forgot where miracles happen…

Glamorous city girl Hannah Ford wasn’t thinking when she walked out of a Christmas party and drove three hundred miles into a snowstorm; she just needed to escape. Thankfully local carpenter Sam Taylor comes to her rescue, and the unlikely pair are forced to spend a snowed-in Christmas together.

All Sam planned for Christmas was to get drunk alone. The holiday has always been something to be endured, until Hannah tumbles into his life, making it magical. Now Hannah and Sam have a chance to have a Christmas together… and make it the best one either of them have ever had.

But can one night out of reality turn into something that’s lasting and real?

Read on for my thoughts on Falling For Christmas.  No true spoilers, promise.

Falling For Christmas is the introductory story ( a 0.5 if you will) for the new series Falling For The Freemans which debuts in 2016.  We are introduced to a truly tiny town of Creighton Falls, New York, that has been on the downswing over the last years.  The main and largest building in town is the hotel which the Freeman family owns and have basically abandoned.  There are a very few business still operating, barely… and some are on their very last legs.  It is in this tiny, dying town that our heroine finds herself in a blinding blizzard.

Hannah had gotten into her car and simply drove.  She was escaping a fancy Christmas weekend house party full of her colleagues and one ex-boyfriend.  The ex with his new girlfriend on his arm … and the snide and hurtful comments, glances and knowing cuts from the people she worked with.  She escaped from an estate full of plastic, mean hearted, nasty people straight into a raging snowstorm.  Driving almost 300 miles from New York City might not have been the best idea Hannah had ever thought up – but she could not stay there and the drive on the highway had left her mind open to just reliving the past.  Now with the snow falling faster than her windshield wipers could keep up with she decided to turn off at the next exit and look for shelter.

Creighton Falls – home to… nothing.  No hotel, no motel, no B & B, just wide open spaces.  When she finally saw headlights through the snow she flagged down the driver.  That act would change her future.

Sam never expected to find this city beauty on the side of the road, obviously stranded by the snowstorm.  The very last thing he wanted was company but he couldn’t leave her out here to freeze.  So he offered to take her to the only place he knew that had an extra room… his home.  He understood her reluctance, but preservation will almost always win over caution.

Falling For Christmas is a wonderful story of two hurting people who on the surface are globally different – but at the core, they get each other and compliment each other.  Sam is suffering and believing that nothing good will ever come his way again.  Hannah believes the critical lies of her ex, that she’s not good enough.  Together they discover that good can come into your life and that you are more than good enough to love, you are perfect.  What more could we possibly want in a romance than the affirmation of what love is supposed to be at the base – love, respect and liking the one who rocks your world?  This one deserves to be on your Christmas reading list.

*I received an e-ARC of Falling For Christmas from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

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