A Winter Flame - Milly Johnson

Description

Tis the season to be jolly… But can Eve find happiness through the frost?

Eve has never liked Christmas. So when her adored elderly aunt dies, the last thing she is expecting is to be left a theme park in her will. A theme park with a Christmas theme …

And that's not the only catch. Her aunt's will stipulates that Eve must run the park with a mysterious partner, the exotically named Jacques Glace. Who is this Jacques, and why did Aunt Evelyn name him in her will?

But Eve isn't going to back down from a challenge. She's determined to make a success of Winterworld, no matter what. Can she overcome her dislike of Christmas, and can Jacques melt her frozen heart at last?

Review

I'm working my way through the back catalogue of Milly's books that I haven't yet read.

If you want a book that you can settle into and not worry about who's who, and the action just flows instead of flip flopping about, then this is a book for you.

A nice straightforward tale (or so it seems) of Eve who inherits a half share in a Christmas theme park. Except it's not yet built and she knows nothing about the Jacques Glace who she is sharing her inheritance with. Is he some shady character who has tricked her Aunt before she died?

Eve has a dislike of Christmas and so to her the theme park must be only Winterworld, no mention of Christmas. She has a broken heart and nothing will mend it, so she just throws herself into work and now into building Winterworld. Her friends and now Jacques are trying to coax her back into the world and to also maybe love Christmas once again - but will they succeed?

Lots of well written characters and a nice easy to follow read. When you just want to relax and sink into a good book that could be read at any time of the year.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.

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