MISTLETOE MIRACLES

Ransom Canyon

by

Jodi Thomas

Sub-genre: Holiday Romance / Western

Publisher: HQN

Date of Publication: September 25, 2018

Number of Pages: 354

A small-town Texas Christmas story, where hearts are lost, love is found, and family always brings you back home.

Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it’s a money pit. He’d sooner marry one of his horses than sell the ranch. Marriage, though, could be a solution. If he can woo a wealthy bride, he might save the ranch—just in time for Christmas. Jaxon O’Grady likes his solitude just fine, thank you very much. But when a car accident brings the unexpected to his door, he realizes just how much one person can need another. Crossroads is the perfect place for Jamie Johnson: avoiding nosy questions about why she’s single, she’s happy to keep to her lakeside home. So she’s baffled when she gets the strangest Christmas present of all, in the form of a Mr. Johnson, asleep on her sofa. Who is he, and why does everyone think he’s her husband?

In this uplifting novel, three unlikely couples discover just what Crossroads, Texas, can offer: romance, belonging, and plenty of Christmas spirit. 

Praise

”Deeply poignant moments and artfully rendered characters create a rich story that transports readers to an idyllic place.” – Publishers Weekly

Three (soon to be) couples in three stories whose lives intersect in this small Texas town. Now by three stories I don’t mean there are three separate books, but three different plots. I know when I first started reading this book I was a little confused but I quickly fell into the flow and loved each and every character. They all have their issues, but love helps them overcome and become better people.

I am not sure which one of these was my favorite because they all grabbed a piece of my heart in different ways. Jax, who was a victim of a fire and is leaving a hermit life until he sees a car crash close to his home. Sunlan, she has lived her life being sheltered or controlled by her parents and finds a way to escape that and be her own person, but at what cost? Wyatt, he has a tough life in the military but through a misunderstanding by the local sheriff finds that maybe life isn’t meant to be lived alone. There are many other characters but this just highlights a few of them.

This book touched my heart, made me laugh, and even raised my protective instincts. It had everything I like to see in a book and enjoyed every moment in Crossroads.

Here are some of my favorite lines:

“Then you’d better come back soon. I’m not sure we speak the same language. Some guy in tight pants rushed down a while ago and asked me if I’d seen a sangria pillow. When I looked blank, he added real slow, ‘Sangria-colored pillow.’ I thought that was a drink, not a color. I told him I saw it riding off on a whiskey horse with a brandy mane toward a tequila sunset.”

“A pool would sure be nicer than the pond. Last time I went for a swim I came up for air, and a cow licked my ear so hard I didn’t get the snot out for a week.”

We give this 5 paws up

A fifth-generation Texan, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Jodi Thomas chooses to set the majority of her novels in her home state, where her grandmother was born in a covered wagon. A former teacher, Thomas traces the beginning of her storytelling career to the days when her twin sisters were young and impressionable.

With a degree in family studies, Thomas is a marriage and family counselor by education, a background that enables her to write about family dynamics. Honored in 2002 as a Distinguished Alumni by Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Thomas enjoys interacting with students on the West Texas A&M University campus, where she currently serves as Writer in Residence.

Commenting on her contribution to the arts, Thomas said, “When I was teaching classes full-time, I thought I was making the world a better place. Now I think of a teacher or nurse or mother settling back and relaxing with one of my books. I want to take her away on an adventure that will entertain her. Maybe, in a small way, I’m still making the world a better place.”

When not working on a novel or inspiring students to pursue a writing career, Thomas enjoys traveling with her husband, renovating a historic home they bought in Amarillo and checking up on their two grown sons.

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