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The Promise of Christmas
2022
First Published
4.29
Average Rating
394
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To save their small town from dying...they need a miracle...and some hot cocoa and cookies wouldn't hurt, too. For the past two years, Ashley Tanner has been trying to keep her promise to revitalize the small mountain town of Innsbruck, but it’s starting to look like she’s failing as mayor, and failure is never an option for her. She has one last ditch effort - but it’s going to take a lot of work and she’s not sure if she can convince everyone to give it a try. Rather than become a ghost town, why not become a town focused around Christmas - one of the most magical times of the year? Who wouldn’t love to visit a town where everything is holiday related - from a classic Gingerbread Tea House to a Candy Cane Lane Campground? Thankfully, those closest to her love the idea, but together, as a group, can they convince the rest of the town? Just when she thinks everything is coming together, things start to fall apart, not just in her own life, but in those closest to her too. Feeling responsible, while surviving the destruction of her marriage, Ashley tries to find miracles for everyone in her life - after all, Christmas is all about miracles, right? The promise of what Christmas can be to not only the town of Innsbruck, but to everyone close to her is the only thing keeping her going. Well - that and coffee. If you love Christmas as much as Steena does, you’ll end up wishing you could visit this tiny town for yourself. After all - who doesn’t love gingerbread houses, sugar cookies, hot cocoa and sleigh rides through a gorgeous mountain side village?

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Steena Holmes
Steena Holmes
Author · 29 books

NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author - Steena is the author of the heart wrenching Finding Emma series. Her latest novel - LIES WE TELL OURSELVES - is out October 2020. The Word Game was included in the Top 20 Novels to be Written by Women in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. The Word Game also won the 2015 USA Books Award for Best Fiction and her novel, The Memory Child was a finalist in the same category. Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a Bachelors degree in Theology. In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing. She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughters and loves to wake up to the Rocky Mountains each morning. ~ LIST OF HER NOVELS STARTING FROM MOST RECENT: LIES WE TELL OURSELVES - OCT 2020 THE PERFECT SECRET - MAY 2020 THE PATIENT - OCTOBER 2019 THE FORGOTTEN ONES SAVING ABBY & ABBY'S JOURNEY THE WORD GAME Stillwater Bay Series: Stillwater Shores Stillwater Rising Stillwater Tides Stillwater Deep The Memory Child & The Memory Journal Finding Emma series: Finding Emma Dear Jack Emma's Secret Dottie's Memories Megan's Hope

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