Viola Shipman (pen name of Wade Rouse) delights readers with A Wish for Winter, an unforgettable, heartwarming story about a never-married bookstore owner from Petoskey, Mich. who goes in search of rekindling Christmas joy and finding true love.
Christmas was always special
for Susan Norcross. Both her mother and her grandmother met their future
husbands when they were dressed up as Santa Claus. But when Susan was in fifth
grade, her parents were killed in a Christmastime car crash that snuffed out
hope from the holidays.
Susan is “girlishly youthful
looking” and now the successful owner of “Sleigh By the Bay,” a thriving
community bookstore. As she nears her 40th birthday, those who love
her--especially the grandparents who raised her, a dear friend of her late
mother’s and Holly, Susan’s best friend--want her to settle down. When Susan
dresses up like Mrs. Claus and attends the famed “10k Santa Run” in Chicago,
she meets an appealing Kris Kringle who sparks her fancy. The two make plans to
meet up after the race. However, Susan is later stood up—and she never got
Santa’s name. This disappointment encourages determined friend Holly to take to
social media to find him. Three men--three Kris Kringles from the run--step up
claiming to be the ‘mystery’ Santa. Might one of them be Susan’s romantic destiny?
Shipman’s (The Charm Bracelet; The Recipe Box; The Secret of Snow) sensitive storytelling is enlivened by offbeat, well-meaning characters and an enchantingly fun, romantic plot.
A Wish
for Winter by Viola
Shipman
Graydon
House (Harper Collins), $17.99 paperback, 9781525804847, 416 pages
Publishing Date: November 15, 2022
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