A touch of ginger.
A dash of spice.
A cowboy and a pastry chef…
A recipe of naughty and nice.
Spending the holidays with her brother after hitting a crossroads in her career, Rachel Murphy keeps her dream of owning a pastry shop alive by creating custom gingerbread houses for clients in a small Montana town. And her Christmas wish list keeps growing this year—a bigger kitchen, a family, a … kitchen, a family, a place to call home…and maybe someone to share it all with.
When handsome dude ranch owner Nate Vaughn grants one of Rachel’s Christmas wishes—offering her a workspace of her own—she can’t refuse. As they grow closer, Rachel and Nate find more than pastries heating up in the kitchen. Is mixing business with affairs of the heart a recipe for disaster? Or will all of Rachel’s wishes come true?
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The characters are the kind of people you want to talk to at the beginning of the holiday season. Home for Christmas is one of those Christmas stories that I’ll read every year,
Cute but not fantastic
I like Marietta, from Grey’s to the cute store fronts. But some books are better than others. This one was okay. Nate is perfect. Rachel is needy. And the relationship is based on rescue and rebuild. But funny thing about those sort of relationships as long as the damsel remains in distress, they are fine. But if a hero isn’t a hero anymore then things can get tense. Bruised egos and shifting power dynamics lead to most couples breaking up. I much prefer a meeting of equals.
Great romantic holiday break read.
Rachel Murphy was raised by her brother, Ty
after the death of her parents. Rachel went to
Culinary School. She lives in Arizona and had
big hopes of opening her own bakery there.
But she went into business with unscrupulous
business partners and lost everything now she
is visiting her brother in Montana for Christmas
to try and redirect her life while vacationing.
Dude ranch owner, Nate Vaughn is a venture
capitalist. Ty is the Ranch Foreman. Ty arranges
with Nate for Rachel to use his industrial kitchen
to due her baking.
Nate meets Rachel and their is immediate chemistry
between them. But will the magic of Christmas be
able to get her to stay in Montana and how would
Ty react if she stayed???
Rachel starts baking gingerbread house plus making
meals for those at the ranch. Soon Nate talks her
into advertising her houses locally. It turns out to
be a great success.
Will Rachel be able to put her past behind and move
Into the future? Will they be able to find real love?
This is a heartwarming story with well defined, well
fleshed out characters that are complex, interesting
and colorful.
Talented writing making the reader a part of their
thanks experiences.
A great a Christmas magic story.
I volunteered to read Home for Christmas. Thanks to
the author for the opportunity. My opinion is my own.
Pastry chef Rachel Murphy travels to Montana to be with her brother, Ty Murphy of the Bar V5 Dude Ranch, after her longtime dream crashes and her friends betrayed her. It’s the holidays, so it is the perfect time to spend Christmas with her only family. But Rachel isn’t there just for Ty, but also to forget a devastating experience in Phoenix. She’s not on the lookout for love either, but if she’ll have her way, food is definitely is going to set her in the mood.
Co-ranch owner Nate Vaughn graciously fulfills Rachel’s dreaming of having her own kitchen for her pastry shop needs. But he tries to steer clear of having any romantic relationship with her, and vice versa. He knows fraternizing with your business partner’s sister is a bad idea. Now, if only that was possible in Rachel’s kitchen.
I love how this story went. A quick, simple read with all the romantic feels without having to resort to hot bed scenes. Because, sometimes you just need this kind of feel-good emotions and happy, smiling, dreamy face when reading about two contradicting people and how they worlds turned around.
If you want to feel like having Christmas in the wintery mountains and indulging in warm hugs and cuddles in front of a warm fireplace, with cookies and Ginger Bread house right within your reach, Home for Christmas by Melissa McClone is the perfect book to read.
Beautifully written story and details. I could picture myself being right there in Montana for Christmas with all the snow.
Rachel Murphy had been taken advantage of some people she thought were her friends when they planned to go into business of opening a bakery in Phoenix. Hurt, but still holding onto her dreams, she decides to get out of town for a while. She goes to visit her brother Ty at Bar VS in Montana for a Christmas vacation. The owner of the dude ranch Nate Vaughn has agreed to let her use the ranch kitchen to make Christmas sweet treats to sell in the town of Marietta. Nate expect Ty’s little sister to be much younger, not the beautiful young lady that he finds in his kitchen making gingerbread houses. The attraction was instant for them both. But, Ty doesn’t want his sister dating a cowboy, especially one like Nate who always puts business first. Rachel doesn’t trust too many people after what recently happened to her. Will they become just good friends or will they become much more.