Bella's Holiday

By Paula Kay

Book Overview

Christmas in Tuscany was supposed to feel magical.

After months of travel and emotional upheaval, Isabella Dawson arrives at her grandparents' vineyard looking forward to a rare gift: time with family, tradition, and the warmth of a house filled with people who love her. But even as the villa comes alive with food, laughter, and familiar rituals, her heart remains elsewhere-with the one person who chose not to come.

Thomas is still in London. And the distance between them feels heavier than ever.

As Isabella throws herself into the holiday festivities, she struggles to ignore the ache left behind by a friendship that no longer fits neatly into the space it once occupied. Old certainties have shifted, and pretending everything is fine grows harder by the day-especially as her grandmother suggests expanding the celebration to include Isabella's birth father and his family for the first time.

With biological and adoptive families coming together under one roof, Isabella is forced to navigate the fragile balance between gratitude and grief, joy and longing. Surrounded by love yet haunted by absence, she must decide whether protecting her heart means closing herself off-or allowing herself to lean into the connections she's only just begun to build.

Set against the warmth and beauty of a Tuscan Christmas, Bella's Holiday is an emotionally rich novel about unspoken love, blended families, and finding belonging even when the future feels uncertain. It is the eighth book in the Legacy Series, a sweeping women's fiction saga following six women as they navigate love, loss, and the ties that bind them.

Legacy Series:

Book 1: Buying Time
Book 2: In Her Own Time
Book 3: Matter of Time
Book 4: Taking Time
Book 5: Just in Time
Book 6: All in Good Time
Book 7: Bella's Hope: A Map for Bella 1
Book 8: Bella's Holiday: A Map for Bella 2
Book 9: Bella's Heart: A Map for Bella 3
Book 10: Bella's Home: A Map for Bella 4
Book 11: Christmas in Tuscany: A Legacy Series Reunion
Book 12: Birthday Surprise: A Legacy Series Reunion
Book 13: A Summer Together: A Legacy Series Reunion
Book 14: In This Moment: A Legacy Series Reunion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692649239
• ISBN13: 9780692649237
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Pks Publishing
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"