5 stars for The Mistletoe Promise (Mistletoe Collection book 1) by Richard Paul Evans.
Richard Evans is my go-to author for good Christmas stories. I have no idea how he does it, but as usual, I am heartened by his telling of The Mistletoe Promise, a story about forgiveness and redemption.
If you can erase just one day from your life, will you know which day?
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 18 Nov 2014
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I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
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Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.
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Everyone has a dark and light side. How much we see of either is usually less a matter of the moon’s position than where we’re standing.
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It’s been said that the truth will set you free. But the truth can also bury you. It’s not the hurricane that breaks your heart, it’s the phone call afterward informing you that all is lost.
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Light is not found in dark places, and hope is not found looking down or looking back. May you always look up.
~ The Mistletoe Promise
Richard Paul Evans
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Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful.
Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court. Though she recognizes the man from her building, Elise has never formally met him. Tired of spending the holidays alone, the man offers her a proposition. For the next eight weeks—until the evening ofDecember 24—he suggests that they pretend to be a couple. He draws up a contract with four rules:
1. No deep, probing personal questions
2. No drama
3. No telling anyone the truth about the relationship
4. The contract is void on Christmas Day
The lonely Elise surprises herself by agreeing to the idea. As the charade progresses, the safety of her fake relationship begins to mend her badly broken heart. But just as she begins to find joy again, her long-held secret threatens to unravel the emerging relationship. But she might not be the only one with secrets.
*Blurb from author's website*
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