Dear Santa: A Novel by Nancy Naigle
Published by St. Martin’s Griffin on October 16, 2018
Genres: Holidays, Literature & Fiction, Romance
Pages: 352
Format: ARC
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A holiday retelling of You’ve Got Mail that will make you fall in love with the Christmas Season!
Angela Carson wants nothing more than to be the third-generation to run her family’s holiday store, Heart of Christmas, successfully. They’ve weathered over sixty tourist seasons, major hurricanes, and urban sprawl, in their old decommissioned lighthouse. But the national chain that set up shop in their small North Carolina town of Pleasant Sands may be more than Heart of Christmas can survive.
Geoff Paisley has been at his mother’s side running the mega-chain Christmas Galore for the last ten years. When his mother falls ill, Geoff promises to answer the town’s Dear Santa letters in her stead. Soon he realizes the woman he’s been corresponding with on Dear Santa is Angela. How could the woman that grates his every last nerve in person have intrigued him so deeply through those letters?
Encouraged by her niece to ask Santa for help, Angela gives in and lets the words fly in a way that, if Santa were real, would no doubt land her on the naughty list. What’s the harm when it’s just a computer-generated response?
When Geoff reveals that he’s her Dear Santa, will Angela be able to set aside their very public feud to embrace the magic of the holiday and possibly find true love?
I decided to spend a week in September reading only Christmas stories. Thanks to NetGalley and my association with them as a book blogger, I was able to jump in and get an advanced reader copy of Dear Santa: A Novel by Nancy Naigle!
Protagonist, Angela Carson inherited her little lighthouse turned Christmas store, as well as her Grandmother’s beach home. Three generations of women trying to support their family while being part of the small town of Pleasant Sands, North Carolina had been running the business itself.
Geoff Paisley and his mother, Rebecca, owned Christmas Galore, a new chain store that has come to town making this possibly the last generation to have her grandmother’s store. While Angela and Geoff are business rivals, they are also immensely attracted to each other and readers feel their connection throughout the story.
In a semi-predictable twist of events, Angela writes a letter to Santa and guess who ends up being Santa – you guessed it – Geoff!! While slightly predictable, Dear Santa was well written and entertaining, and was the perfect Christmas story! I especially loved the placement of the children’s letters to Santa at the beginning of each chapter of the book too.
Thanks Ms. Naigle for another great book! Looking forward to reading many more in the future!
USA TODAY Bestselling author, Nancy Naigle, writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense.
With a career spent on the cutting edge of technology in the banking industry, she never let go of her dream to write. Now she works full-time writing stories that are a calming blend of community, family, and the simple things in life. She writes the kind of stories she hopes will provide an escape from the hectic day-to-day in the make believe worlds she creates.
Aside from writing she enjoys hunting for treasures in junk and antique shoppes, and getting crafty no matter what the medium from painting and digitizing embroidery designs, to weaving pine needle baskets. She also enjoys horseback riding on her palomino, Tooter.
A Virginia native, and spending most of her life in the Tidewater area, she now calls North Carolina home.
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I was provided with a complimentary electronic advanced reader copy from St. Martin’s Press through Net Galley in exchange for my post. I was not required to post a positive review, but have chosen to do so because this book was great! Thank you!
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