Travel to snow-covered Wood Creek for a heartwarming Christmas where wishes can come true …
Chocolatier Emma Miller has a new business selling bonbons to the residents of the quaint town of Wood Creek. When a tiny visitor stops by her shop with an interesting request, Emma is intrigued. The young girl needs chocolates that will help her widowed dad fall in love, preferably with her teacher. What Emma didn’t count on was Casey’s ever so charming and handsome dad, Grant, stepping into her life. She has to remind herself to be cautious because the one thing she learned in foster care is that people always leave.
Pilot Grant Galloway is touched by his daughter’s gift and is curious about the person who made the world-class chocolates. But when he steps into Emma’s shop full of delicious smells and tasty morsels, he forgets to breathe. And it has nothing to do with his favorite dessert. She’s pretty and kind, and when she has to deal with a difficult client, his protective instincts kick into high gear. But he risked his heart once. When his wife died, it left him broken. He’s just now beginning to pick up the pieces, and he and his daughter will be leaving town once the holidays are over.
Thanks to some Christmas wishes, though, these two might discover that their carefully laid plans are about to change.
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Summary
A Family by Christmas by Viv Royce is a sweet Hallmark-ish Christmas story. The little girl in the book just melts your heart with her request to make her dad happy.
Emma was an orphan but is now all grown up and owns her own Chocolate Shoppe. I thought the references to her business conferences were a great addition to the story. Casey asks Emma to make chocolates for her dad to make him happy and fall in love.
Grant’s wife passed away and he is trying to get his life back together raising his daughter. His dream is to return to flying.
There are some sweet scenes straight out of a Hallmark movie to make this a fun sweet Christmas story.
I didn’t realize it is the first book in a series; The Little Shops on Heart Street. I am excited to see the book store get their story next.
I received this book from Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review.
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