Yuletide Treasure: The Finest Gift/A Blessed Season (Steeple Hill Historical Christmas Anthology)

By Jillian Hart and Lauraine Snelling

Book Overview

The Finest Gift by Lauraine Snelling A plain Jane without any suitors, Arley Hoople doesn't dare dream of romance this Christmas. So she brings holiday joy to others: repairing her grandmother's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037378631X
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Steeple Hill
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.6" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Yuletide Treasure: The finest Gift/A Blessed Season

This is one of those books that contains 2 stories. The big problem is you don't want to lay the book down until you have read the whole book. Each story takes up half the book and is great when you want something to read that will hold your attention from beginning to the end. The first story is well written about a young girl sent to live with her grandmother and how she has had many Christmases with her but never able to celebrate the best Christmas until she finds out why her grandmother has never been completly happy.

Two enjoyable western historical romance stories for the holiday season or anytime.

This book features two short historical romances set at Christmas time. Although not a part of the Love Inspired Historical line from the same publisher, Steeple Hill, this book is very similar in style to that series. The first story, The Finest Gift, is by Lauraine Snelling, is set in 1910 Minnesota. Arley Hooper is a plain young woman who has little hope for suitors and busies herself with the children at the orphanage. When she decides the girls deserve a dollhouse for Christmas, she enlists the aid of woodcarver Nathan Gunderson, who makes her believe that maybe she can find love. The second story, A Blessed Season, is by Jillian Hart and set in Montana Territory in 1883. Bounty hunter Rafe Jones has taken on the task of finding an abandoned girl's long-lost mother for Christmas. Even his hardened heart cannot resist a young child's holiday wish. His search leads him to Cora Sims in the town of Angel Falls, Montana. Although Cora is most likely not the girl's mother, she develops an attachment to the child, and Rafe finds himself growing attached to Cora herself. Can this spinster and hardened bounty hunter find love together? These two stories are a wonderful read for the holiday season, or anytime, for fans of sweet historical romances. I highly enjoyed both stories, although I particularly liked reading A Blessed Season because it gave me a chance to revisit the setting and characters of my favorite Love Inspired Historical novel, Homespun Bride by Jillian Hart. I'd definitely recommend this book to readers of the Love Inspired Historical line.