This book
was seriously a heart breaker in many ways before it built to a great
ending. It starts out with a man who has
been for years homeless a veteran with serious PTSD and a case of guilt that
really breaks him down. He’s alive when
his brothers in arms are not. He knows
he should have contacted the family of his friend and tell them what happened
to their brother, he just can’t. He feels so guilty due to the circumstances
surrounding his best friend’s death that he couldn’t contact them. He went
downhill so fast that he lived on the streets and in homeless shelters for
years and then one holiday when he’s gotten a job working in the Ladybug Garden
Center and actually has a small apartment to live in, a family member comes
looking for him. He absolutely doesn’t
want to talk to Amy, she wants closure and he doesn’t’ want to talk about it.
She can’t believe when she finds him that he is the same man that left with her
brother to go to war in the Middle East. She decides that she isn’t leaving
until she receives that explanation.
Christmas will work its magic on he and Amy before it’s over and the
book was a really engrossing read. I do highly recommend this book to anyone
looking for a great Christmas book with a veteran and a family member who were
attracted to each other prior to the war.
See how Darling Vermon and Christmas works to help them get around all
of their problems.
I
received this book through Netgalley.com in the kindle format and this is my
review in exchange for the great book. I
loved it and give it five stars.
Description
as found on NetGalley.com:
With
shades of It’s a Wonderful
Life, one man must face his past to find his future this Christmas.
In the
last year, George's life has drastically changed. The formerly homeless veteran
now has a job he likes, a family in the residents of Darling, VT, and for the
first time in years, a home. But while his present is good, he's still haunted
by the past, a past that appears shortly before Christmas when the older sister
of his brother-in-arms hunts him down and finds him in Darling, working at the
Ladybug Garden Center.
Amy’s
looking for closure for her family after her brother's death in the Middle
East, but the serious man she finds working in Vermont doesn’t resemble the
soldier she remembers from years before. This man is hardened and yet somehow
fragile, too, and in her desire to find out what really happened to her
brother, she learns more about George than she ever expected.
With a little Christmas magic and the whole
town supporting them, can these two bruised hearts make a future together?
