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    Christmas in Good Hope
    Christmas in Good Hope
    Christmas in Good Hope
    Audiobook8 hours

    Christmas in Good Hope

    Written by Cindy Kirk

    Narrated by Amy McFadden

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    About this audiobook

    Ami and Beck would rather forget the past, but this Christmas of love is one to remember.

    Amaryllis “Ami” Bloom’s cheerful smile greets everyone in Good Hope, Wisconsin. But her merry facade hides a dark secret she won’t ever forget. Still, she throws herself into celebrating Christmas—and convinces her handsome, and stubborn, new neighbor to join her.

    Beckett Cross, however, is determined not to celebrate the holidays. He moved to Good Hope to leave behind reminders of how he’d had it all…and lost everything. But it’s hard to resist adorable Ami, the designated keeper of the small town’s holiday traditions, when she asks for help with the Twelve Nights celebrations. And Ami has a hard time resisting Beck’s soft Southern drawl and gentle eyes. Will a Christmas miracle give them a second chance at love and the hope to heal both of their hearts for good?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781511320696
    Christmas in Good Hope
    Author

    Cindy Kirk

    Jeanie has always loved to read and write. School years were spent sneaking romance novels into school when she should have been learning algebra and biology. College years were spent taking electives such as journalism and creative writing classes when she should have been taking algebra and biology. Nowadays, she's still reading and writing. She writes romances because she believes in happily-ever-afters. Not the "love conquers all" kind, but the "two people love each other, so they can conquer anything" kind. The commitment and monogamy of romance are strong values she's passing along to her daughters, who'll search for their own heroes someday. Jeanie's own romance hero is a very supportive guy, who reads fantasy and watches football and doesn't mind eating the same meal three nights in a row while she's writing. She spends her days caring for her family and her menagerie of strays, or being involved in any number of other family activities. She's got an enormous extended Italian family. Those who aren't related by blood have been adopted by love! And she writes: red-hot romances for the Harlequin Blaze series, romantic suspense for the Signature Select line and dark fantasies for Tor. Her books have earned accolades, including a Rendezvous Rosebud, Holt Medallion, CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Award, Readers and Booksellers' Best Laurie Award, National Readers' Choice Award and RT BOOKClub Reviewers' Choice Award. As far as Jeanie's concerned, she's blessed with the very best job in the world.

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    • 3/5
      I liked the main characters, Ami and Beck. I liked that both have families that seem close-knit and who are there for family members no matter what they do or what arguments they have with each other. I like Good Hope, WI where neighbors help neighbors. I'd love to eat at Beck's restaurant (Muddy Boots) or stop in to Ami's bakery for tea and something sweet. Or go to some of the Twelve Nights/Christmas activities. Of course, the downside of small town life is that everyone knows everyone else's business. Warning: Spoilers may follow!!Beck moves to Good Hope following the death of his wife and unborn son, wanting to get away. He planned to keep to himself and slowly get to know others, but the small town would have none of that. Ami, whose business is right next to his, is very involved in the community and has received a coveted invitation to join The Cherries. This is a group her mother always wanted to be in but was never invited to. The Cherries assign Ami to convince Beck to open his home for their tour, something he really doesn't want to do. This story had great potential, but I had to downgrade it by one star because I was disappointed that Ami and Beck gave in to their physical attraction for each other and had sex quite a few times before they had any formal commitment to each other let alone being married. In fact, Ami did so knowing that she had a secret that might change their relationship.This was doubly surprising because they have a discussion about forgiveness. Beck seems to have a hard edge about forgiving others who deliberately do something that could cause harm to another (driving drunk, believing a live-in boyfriend over a daughter when the daughter says the man is trying to sleep with her, etc.). His wife and unborn son were killed by a drunk driver--a woman that Beck defended in court previously. At first, he's grieving his loss, but after a while he's fallen into the falsehood that forgiving someone means that you think what they did was ok. Contrary to popular belief, you can forgive what someone did without agreeing with what they did.Ami has revealed that she was driving and had an accident in which her friend Lindsay was hurt. But she has kept a secret all these years--she'd had a wine cooler and a few sips of spiked punch at a party and then driven. Her secret is revealed more publicly than she'd have liked, but Lindsay has already dealt with the forgiveness issue and forgiven Ami. I was surprised that for all Ami's father's talk of family supporting family that he didn't say anything to Anita (his girlfriend and Lindsay's mom) when she got upset upon the reveal that Ami was driving drunk. To his credit, he did order Eliza (who spilled the beans out of spite that's never quite explained) out of his home. Eliza's treatment of Ami was never fully explained. At one point Ami does say that Eliza was more Lindsay's friend than hers in high school (though Lindsay makes it sound like all three of them palled around together) so I'm not sure if it's a misguided support of Lindsay coupled with forgiveness issues or something else that happened since then. Another narrative slip occurs near the end when Ami calls Beck James Beckett Cross (his real full name)--as far as I remember, Beck never told her his real first name was James. She found this out by searching the internet after he'd mentioned parts of his past to her. She's always called him Beck or Beckett--shouldn't he wonder how she knew the name James?