A Rancher's Christmas Kiss
Holidays in Heart Falls, Book 5
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A Rancher's Christmas Kiss
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Narrated by:
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Tatiana Sokolov
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By:
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Vivian Arend
About this listen
An ode to A Christmas Carol done Heart Falls style (that means with kissing).
The final stand-alone story in the best-selling Holidays in Heart Falls series by New York Times best-selling author Vivian Arend.
This rancher wasn’t looking for love—but she’s been right there the entire time.
In their mid-40s when they first met, widow Sonora Fallen and vows-to-stay-single rancher Ashton Stewart both felt a spark but agreed being friends was more important than becoming lovers. For many years, that decision held firm, and other than one time, their grumbly-in-public, friends-in-private arrangement has stuck.
Now 16 years later, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future seem determined to change these friends to lovers to...something else? All of Heart Falls is watching, suspicions on the rise as Sonora and Ashton’s secret slips into view.
Can two people used to standing on their own find a way to admit they want more? Or will stubbornness and fear keep them from forever?
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Enjoyable in audible.
Though the silly stubbornness from these two comes across more in audible.
BOOK REVIEW
Sad, hopeful and entertaining as always.
Though I loved these two mature adults getting their HEA at last, I just felt they both were a bit obtuse though the years and felt sorry for them more than anything else. I ended up wondering if the lost years were worth the wait. Did it make it all sweeter in the end?
Ashton using, or believing, that marriage was not for him because of his brother, was not a viable reason when he was surrounded by so many good examples of relationships based on love and respect.
Sonora was a widow and embarking on a new life, so I understand her reticence for anything permanent to start.
I think I felt sorry for them over how many years they wasted just plodding along. I’m not quite sure how being friends for so long, with only the one romp between the sheets years previously, led to them ending up together.
Cannot say it felt like they fell in love but ended up settling for companionship. Though Sonora denies that was her thinking and Ashton has never hinted at wanting more. But they both start thinking about changing their relationship after a certain age.
He was always happy being needed at Silver Stone. But he wasn’t honest about his feelings for a long time I think, and that is a pity, but he also felt he had to keep his word to Walter to look after them all. I’m not sure Ashton even realised he was getting older.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the overlap for events already witnessed with everyone in Hearts Falls. And how that text message got to Tucker was really fun.
But the absolute highlight was GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE. Wow, didn’t that just put everything into focus for Ashton and show him what an ostrich he had been. And I adored the WHO behind it all.
This is my honest review of this book.
Enjoyable in audible.
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