One Charmed Christmas

by Sheila Roberts

Overview

An enchanting new Christmas novel from USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts, brimming with hope, love and humor.

Catherine Pine is hoping her Christmas is a bit more jolly than last year’s. That one was her first without her husband, and with her kids and their families absent this year, she’s worried. But things change when her good friend invites her on a Christmas cruise to lift her spirits. Suddenly every day is an adventure and she’s making a bunch of new friends, including the lovable Sophie Miles.

It’s like a gift from Santa when Sophie and Catherine meet the charming Dr. Rudy Nichols, a perfect match for hypochondriac Sophie. But he comes with a two-legged lump of coal, his guard-dog daughter. And then there’s chocolatier Trevor March, who’s also interested in the scrumptious Sophie. Can he convince her that chocolate is the perfect cure for what ails her? Who knows what Santa has in store for these holiday travelers? Anything could happen this charmed Christmas!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778360926
Publisher:	MIRA Books
Publication date:	09/29/2020
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	477,683
Product dimensions:	5.26(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Sheila Roberts lives in the Pacific Northwest. To date, she has seen over three million books sold both at home and abroad. Several of her books have been adapted for film by Hallmark, Lifetime, and GAF, including her holiday perennial, On Strike for Christmas, The Nine Lives of Christmas, with a sequel The Nine Kittens of Christmas, and most recently, Christmas on Candy Cane Lane.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2020

After numerous No. 1 New York Times best-selling doggie delights, Cameron returns with A Dog's Perfect Christmas, featuring a peppy puppy easing a family's tough holiday problems (300,000-copy first printing). In Colgan's Christmas at the Island Hotel, set on an island between Scotland and Norway, new hoteliers Flora MacKenzie and brother Fintan get ready to open for the holidays while island-girl Isla loves her posh new waitress job and kitchen assistant Konstantin, secretly a duke's son sent to learn about hard work, starts liking the environs (100,000-copy paperback and 30,000-copy hardcover first printing). The standard bearer for Christmas fiction, Evans keeps on glittering with The Noel Letters (200,000-copy first printing). In Macomber's Jingle All the Way, work-obsessed Everly Lancaster escapes the holidays for a tour of the Amazon river basin with handsome guide naturalist Asher Adams but suddenly feels she should go home for a snow-flecked Chicago Christmas. In Mallery's Happily This Christmas, single mom Wynn Beauchene helps cute neighbor cop Garrick ready his home for his visiting daughter, and the rest is romance. Novak's A California Christmas offers a new "Silver Springs" story to match the shine of the holidays (400,000-copy mass market and 10,000 hardcover first printing). In Roberts's One Charmed Christmas, emotionally burdened Catherine Pine escapes the holidays by taking a European river cruise, where not one but two suitors—a doctor and a chocolatier—await (75,000-copy first printing). Finally, In Donna VanLiere's The Christmas Table, John Creighton builds a table for his wife in 1972 and a pregnant Lauren Mabrey finds its decades later at a garage sale, with fabulous recipes stuffed in a drawer (150,000-copy first printing).

Library Journal

Narrator Ann Marie Gideon’s velvety voice brings out the warmth of this cozy Christmas romance. When widow Catherine Pine, abandoned by her family for the holidays, joins her girlfriend on a cruise to Germany, she is not expecting to find romance among the other passengers. Gideon brings out the gentle voices of Catherine and her suitor, and contrasts them with the more energetic voices of the younger passengers, including chocolatier Trevor March and his love interest, the hypochondriac Sophie. Gideon’s use of German accents helps conjure the charm of the country’s Christmas markets. Gideon’s narration captures the uplifting spirit of this lovely story—which makes for an engaging yuletide listening experience. M.F. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2020 - AudioFile

Narrator Ann Marie Gideon’s velvety voice brings out the warmth of this cozy Christmas romance. When widow Catherine Pine, abandoned by her family for the holidays, joins her girlfriend on a cruise to Germany, she is not expecting to find romance among the other passengers. Gideon brings out the gentle voices of Catherine and her suitor, and contrasts them with the more energetic voices of the younger passengers, including chocolatier Trevor March and his love interest, the hypochondriac Sophie. Gideon’s use of German accents helps conjure the charm of the country’s Christmas markets. Gideon’s narration captures the uplifting spirit of this lovely story—which makes for an engaging yuletide listening experience. M.F. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2020 - AudioFile