Christmas Roses: Christian fiction book review

    Celia Anderson doesn't need anything for Christmas except a few more boarders, which are hard to come by in this small mining town. She certainly doesn't have a husband on her Christmas wish list. But when a wandering carpenter finds lodging at her boarding house, she admits that she might remarry if she found the right man--the kind of man who would bring her roses for Christmas. It would take a miracle to get roses during a harsh Wyoming winter. But Christmas, after all, is the time for miracles...

 
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    Amanda Cabot is an accomplished author under various pen names and a popular speaker. The author of Paper Roses, Scattered Petals, Tomorrow's Garden, and Summer of Promise, she is also a charter member of Romance Writers of America, the cofounder of its New Jersey chapter, a member of the ACFW, and an avid traveler. She lives in Wyoming.

Joy In Our Journey's review:

    Christmas Roses  - what a nice thought and what a great title for a book.  Amanda Cabot has written a book as delightful as its title.  The  story is not about Christmas as you might expect, but it is the story of a young man, angry and hurt by the desertion of his father, and a young widow with a small baby who is struggling to make ends meet by running a boarding house.

    Celia needs to learn to love again, and to accept the help she desperately needs to repair her boarding house.  Mark needs to find his father, and learn to forgive both his father and God.  What Celia doesn't need is two other batchlors who enjoy her cooking and each would like to make her his permanent cook.  What Mark doesn't need is to be tied down with a family and not to be able to search for his father.

    But God has a better plan for both!  How ever can these two young people find what they really need, and forgive their past?  Christmas Roses is the answer, but to find their heart's desire, each will have to give up what they think that they want.

    Amanda Cabot is a new author for me, but I will be looking for more of her books, like Christmas Roses.

Christmas Roses is available September 2012 at your favorite bookseller - from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

Julieanne
Joy In Our Journey.com

    I received one hardbound copy of Christmas Roses in exchange for Joy In Our Journey's honest review of the book.  No other compensation was provided.

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