October 15, 2014
Thayne's latest feel-good romance delivers widowed mom Eliza Hayward and her daughter, Maddie, to Haven Point, a small town on a beautiful Idaho mountain lake. Eliza has landed a new job running a small hotel that will let her keep a close eye on Maddie, who has a serious heart condition. But when they arrive, the hotel is on fire, then Eliza gets hit by a rental SUV being driven by Aidan Caine, wealthy Geek God of Silicon Valley. She has no choice but to accept his offer of a place to stay for the night. Aiden lives in a beautiful, rustic-style mansion, complete with a stable of horses, on Snow Angel Cove. But it is in desperate need of decorating and welcoming touches to greet his family when they come out for Christmas from Hope's Crossing, Colorado, the setting of previous books by Thayne (Wild Iris Ridge, 2014). A temporary job making the mansion a home keeps Eliza, and the reader, around long enough to fall in love with the town, the ranch, and the people.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)