Cole Tanner doesn’t do Christmas. Abandoned as a child on Christmas Eve, he has no use for the holiday season. When his best friend’s widow arrives in Glacier Creek, Montana, determined to give her small daughter the fairy-tale Christmas she’s dreaming of, Cole is prepared to dislike her. He isn’t prepared for Joy and her daughter to insinuate their way into his life—and his heart. But when … heart. But when tragedy strikes, he needs a Christmas miracle to fulfill the one wish he never knew he wanted.
Joy Holliday believes in miracles.
She sees hummingbirds everywhere, and believes they are tiny messengers from Heaven. Despite losing her husband four years ago, she is determined not to dwell on the past, but to look to the future. Her entire world revolves around taking care of her daughter, Piper, and ensuring she has a magical Christmas. In Glacier Creek she finds Cole, a man still smarting from the wounds of his past, determined to keep happiness at arms’ length. Can she save Christmas and show him the promise of a future with her?
Winner of The Booksellers Best Award for the Short Contemporary category presented by the Greater Detroit Romance Writers of America in 2018
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Holy jimany I loved this story. So we’ll written. Yes I cried I couldn’t put it down. Thank you and Merry Christmas
I enjoyed reading this book so very much! It is likely one of my all time favorite Christmas romance stories! It made me smile, laugh, cry, and kept me glued to the pages until I finished the book!
A Hummingbird Christmas By Karen Foley
Book starts out with Joy and her daughter Piper who have traveled to Glacier Creek, MT to spend time with her dead husbands family.
Her husband was a smoke jumper jumping from planes to fight fires, along with his best friend Cole Tanner who she just crashed into on the blizzard road.
He drives them to their destination and eases Piper into seeing all the cookies that were made just for her.
Joy’s job here will be getting everyone to help celebrate this holiday, even though they are down in the dumps that Matt isn’t there with them…
They also see the hummingbird and Joy says it’s a sign from heaven where Matt is. It’s winter and they are not known for the cold weather. I have heard the same about cardinals-a sign from heaven.
Cole takes them into town for the festivals and Piper is overjoyed.
Love hearing from others who live and work in the town, such a welcome and warm community. His secrets do come out but is it what she wants to hear about….she has her own problems and wants to keep them to herself.
Like how the parents treat them both and how changes need to come about as they’ve all been grieving too long.
Kind of a predictable story line but the process was good.
Like hearing of his and her careers and how they are done, also holiday decorating. Sex and romance are indicated by not expressed.
Other works from Tule Publishing are highlighted at the end and an excerpt from Heat by karen Foley is included.
Won this in a book contest and this is my honest opinion.
A Hummingbird Christmas is the first book in the Glacier Creek series. This is the perfect story for the holiday season. It’s a sweet, heartwarming story about love, loss, and the possibility of miracles. It is the story of finding everything you never knew you always wanted. Joy and Cole’s story brought me to a place I’d always love to be, it brought me to comfort and peace. I really enjoyed it. This is one not to miss.
A Hummingbird Christmas by Karen Foley
Glacier Creek #1
Looking for a sweet Christmas romance filled with the magic of the holidays? If you believe in miracles, omens, signs sent by those departed and like a HEA then look no further. In fact, at one point I had a tingle or two in spite of having a pretty good idea what might happen next. The romance between Joy and Cole along with the festivities, family and fun all go together like clockwork and provide the perfect backdrop for this delightful story. There is one rough patch to deal with but all in all this was fun from beginning to end. And the hummingbird…well…some might think it a bit hokey BUT it works very VERY well in this story!
Thank you to NetGalley and Tule Publishing for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4.5 Stars