Review & Excerpt – Made for Mistletoe by Nan Reinhardt
Synopsis
This Christmas, he has big plans until he meets a beautiful distraction….
Army reservist Cameron Walker loves everything about the holidays in River’s Edge—celebrating with his big family and carving out more time to work on his custom design furniture in his studio. But when he meets a visiting artist and niece of a family friend, he’s eager to break his work plans for play. He knows first-hand life’s short.
Teacher and artist Harper Gaines is bowled over by the handsome and friendly finish carpenter she meets during her vacation. His admiration for her art and his enthusiasm for life light her up, and remind her of how much she’s been missing since her soldier husband’s death. But when she discovers Cam’s also a soldier, she retreats, unable to risk another loss.
Cam has never felt such a strong connection, and he won’t give up without a fight. But will Cam’s persistence and the magic of Christmas be enough to convince Harper to take a chance on them?
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Review
Another lovely journey to Rivers Edge. I love this series. There are several different series about the families who live in the town, but they center around the intricacy of the town hub. I love seeing the characters I have fallen in love with reappear in each book, even if it isn’t their story. It rounds out the story and ties all of the books together.
This installment focuses on Cam and Harper. Cam was stood up at the altar five years ago. Harper lost her husband in an accident overseas. The coming together of these two heals wounds and helps to make them whole again for each other. I appreciated how the author doesn’t sugarcoat Harper’s feelings and the stages of grief. It takes her some time to accept that Drew is gone and that he would want her to be happy. Cam fell in love the moment he saw Harper, and since he was jilted in his last relationship, it is good to see him happy again.
I love that it is set around Christmas, too…even though we haven’t hit a few other holidays, this is a perfect read for the holidays or anytime, really! It brings up the hopes of Christmas and the spirit around this holiday.
You won’t be disappointed if you read anything by this author.
We give this book 5 paws up.
Excerpt
“Hullo, kitty.” She obliged, picking him up and rubbing her cheek on his fur. “Mee? Seriously? That’s its name?”
Cam shook his head to clear it, but he should’ve cleared his throat because the words, “No, his—” came out in a croak. He did clear his throat then. “His name is Chairman Meow, but I call him Mee for short.”
“Chairman Meow. Clever.” She held the cat out to look into his unblinking green eyes. “Hello, Chairman Meow. How did you get that name?”
Inanely, Cam waited a few seconds, not really thinking the cat would answer, but having Harper show up at his door was a miracle, and he was certainly up for more. Finally, after she transferred her gaze to him, he said, “Joe and I found him on the River Walk a couple of winters ago—wet and shivering under one of the benches. I brought him home, dried him off, and gave him some scrambled eggs. Put an ad on the local lost-pet Facebook page, but nobody claimed him.”
“And Chairman Meow?” She wandered farther into the workshop with a limp Mee lying on her shoulder like a furry scarf.
“Ah, that was all my brother Joe. When Mee was a kitten, his head was so round and seemed way too big for his body. Have you seen pictures of Mao Tse-tung?”
She frowned. “If I have, I don’t remember.”
“Round face. Plump cheeks, plus that cat took over my house like a little general.” He chuckled. “Couple of days after I got him, we were drinking hot buttered rum and tossing out names for the poor thing who was glaring at us like we were the enemy, and Joe mentioned he looked like Mao … so Chairman Meow.”
“Ah, okay.” She gave the cat a final stroke and set him back on the concrete floor. “I like it.”
About the Author
Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today bestselling author of sweet, small-town romantic fiction for Tule Publishing. Her day job is working as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, however, writing is Nan’s first and most enduring passion. She can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t writing—she wrote her first romance novel at the age of ten and is still writing, but now from the viewpoint of a wiser, slightly rumpled, woman in her prime. Nan lives in the Midwest with her husband of 51 years, where they split their time between a house in the city and a cottage on a lake.
