The Wildflower House Series: In book #1, Wildflower Heart, Kara Hart, a thirty-two-year-old widow, moves to Wildflower House with her father who plans to renovate the old mansion. In book #2, Wildflower Hope, Kara takes her father’s dream and makes it her own. Now ~ Welcome to Wildflower House and a Christmas to remember.In Wildflower Christmas, a Wildflower House novella, Kara is looking forward … looking forward to a quiet holiday—just like the ones she’s always known—but this year, instead of celebrating the holidays with her father in the city, she’s at Wildflower House and she’s alone. Kara is okay with a low-key Christmas because after hosting the hectic first official event at Wildflower House she’s ready to enjoy some rest and relaxation before January arrives and the final renovations begin.
But fate—with an extra dose of Christmas spirit—intervenes as the people now in Kara’s life show up. Some need favors and others have special gifts. If Kara is ready to up her holiday game, she will find opportunities for new traditions on which she can build for the future.
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There is something very special about returning to Wildflower House in this third book of the series, a sweet novella that brings in the Christmas spirit. It’s like walking into the pages of a warm and welcoming family story. It’s wrapped in an old, historical house with sentimental memories of the past that draw the characters to gather in an emotional Christmas package of love, bonding, healing and creating new holiday memories.
I enjoyed reuniting with Kara Hart and catching up with some of the renovation progress to Wildflower House. The charm of the old vintage rooms that were decorated to perfection in Christmas lights, ribbons, trees, and festive holiday décor were a visual I walked into with ease. It was a magical wonderland that drew family and friends to celebrate Christmas together. Kara has planned a quiet and calm holiday season but the spirit of Christmas changes those plans in the walls of this historical home.
The characters in the book are easy to like and ones I loved getting into the holiday spirit with. Little Maddie Lyn is a doll and won my heart with her innocence and compassion. She is brightness that shines. As do most of the characters. The heartwarming love they all bring is touching and carries them through a bit of pain and heartache but with support and compassion together. There is a bit of a mystery that winds through the season that kept me hoping for happy results. It’s a cast of characters that I enjoyed very much.
For a wonderfully delightful ushering into a Christmas of surprises, family reunions, and unconditional love for one another, this is a book to start the holidays with. I am so happy that I walked into Wildflower House and met up with the friends I have come to know in the Wildflower House series. Christmas is a special time of the year with it’s traditions and memories. I am honored that I was taken into the pages of this book and spent time with these wonderful characters. Grace Greene has a talent to warm my heart with her beautiful writing.
Wildflower Christmas finds us returning to Kara Hart and her wonderful, and under renovation Victorian Mansion, the Wildflower House. Assembled there are a warm and loving set of characters who genuinely care for each other and are ready to celebrate the Christmas season. What starts out as Kara Hart’s wish for a quiet Christmas changes and becomes her most memorable Christmas.
Grace Greene has written a heartwarming continuation to her Wildflower series. With her well written characters, believable dialogue, and beautiful descriptions, you feel immediately at home as if with old friends and family. This book makes a wonderful beginning to the Christmas reading season reminding the reader of love, second chances, forgiveness, and the healing of the season. Even though it is the third in a series, it is possible to read and enjoy as a stand alone novella. Wildflower House is just the place I’d love to spend Christmas and the people I’d love to spend it with.
Thank you Grace Greene for allowing me to read, review and fall in love with Wildflower Christmas.
When I read that Kara was looking forward to a quiet Christmas, I immediately heard Mick Jagger singing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. And it continued until the end of this captivating entry into the Wildflower House series. By the time Mick concluded with “but if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you need,” I was sobbing with joy.
This book demonstrates Grace Greene’s skill in creating a few holiday weeks brimming with the gamut of emotions one may experience while trying not to lose control on the journey. We encounter apprehension, empathy, frustration, a feeling of inadequacy, and everything else we can feel when life gives us another bump in the road as soon as we get over the last one. In the end, we rejoice with Kara and her Christmas dinner guests as she receives her truly special Gift.
Do not miss this book. It helps to smooth some kinks in Kara’s relationships and facilitate her steps on the next section of her trek into the future. I can’t wait!
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
I love Christmas stories, and I love the Wildflower House series. Wildflower Christmas more than satisfied both of these loves.
As Kara settles into her life at the Wildflower House, and as she comes to terms with the loss of her father, she is looking forward to a nice, quiet Christmas. As her family and friends gather around her, her quiet plans change and she truly discovers what Christmas means.
Wildflower Christmas is exactly what I love about Christmas stories this time of year—a story of friendships, family, loss, forgiveness, holiday traditions, love, and joy. I love, love, love everything about this series and I look forward to my next visit to the Wildflower House.
Loved this story at Wildflower House. Kara was ready to enjoy a quite Christmas by herself but soon things will change and she will welcome friends and family to celebrate the holiday season with her.
Loved the descriptive writing, it makes you feel like you are right there. I have enjoyed the growing relationship between Will and Kara, they seem so perfect for each other. I believe family is everything, and it’s especially true at the holidays.
This is the third book in the series but can be read as a stand alone. Great prologue to introduce you to the series. A perfect Christmas read.
Beautiful story. Love, family, friends and Christmas are brought together in this sweet and heartwarming story. Author Grace Greene writes wonderful stories. I received a complimentary copy of the book. No review was required.
Returning to Wildflower House always makes me happy, while at the same time making me cry.
This book finds Kara planning a quiet Christmas with her newly discovered Aunt, but as Rabbie Burns so sweetly put it “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley.” And astray it does go, but it’s all good in the end.
What I love about this series is the characters and how very real they feel to me. Their lives and their reactions to what life deals them is totally believable, and yet there is a bit of the fey with sweet Maddy Lynn(I do love this child).
Another reason I’ve fallen in love with this series, is that the story line is a reminder of how much God is in control, and it’s all in “His time”.
Thank you for another glorious read Grace Greene.
Wildflower Christmas is the third book in Grace Greene’s Wildflower House series. Having read other books by this author, I was expecting a captivating story and was not disappointed. Even though part of a series, this book can easily be read as a stand-alone as the author fills in enough of the back story that readers are not left with a lot of questions and confusion. Readers will find Kara anticipating a quiet Christmas as she continues to work through her grief at the death of her father. But as things progress at Wildflower House, unexpected events bring a little more than Kara planned for the holiday. With strong, believable characters and a plot that moves quickly, the author brings readers a sweet, heartfelt, and entertaining Christmas story full of family and friends, and love. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and readers who love sweet holiday stories will not want to miss this one. I was given a complimentary copy of the book and was not required to write a review. The opinions are my own.
Note: This is the third book in The Wildflower House. You could read Wildflower Christmas as a stand-alone but i think to get maximum enjoyment from the series, you should read it in order.
I enjoyed going back to Wildflower House and spending time with Kara and her old friends that we know from previous books as well as some new friends that I hope to see in future books. This is a feel-good story. Kara has been working on renovations at wildflower house since her father bought it before he died and she plans to make it an artist’s retreat and meeting place for the community. Kara has no family except for a newly discovered aunt and she decides that she will just have a quiet Christmas by herself at home. She’s ok with this plan because she has hosted several events at the house and wants to rest up before renovations start again after the first of the year. Life has a way of changing even the best plans and her friends become part of her Christmas. She goes from a plans for a lonely Christmas to one filled with friendship and love and discovery. This is a wonderful novel to help readers discover the magic of the holiday. I can’t wait for the next book in the series to spend more time with Kara and her friends.
Grace Greene truly captures the beauty of the Christmas season in this delightful novella. Kara initially prepares for a quiet holiday season, but Wildflower House seems to attract friends and family like a butterfly to wildflowers. Before she knows it, Kara is hosting a Christmas that is overflowing with holiday magic. I adore the characters in the Wildflower House series with their complicated, realistic and loving relationships. Thank you to the author for the advanced readers copy. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
This heartwarming Christmas novella brings us back to The Wildflower House, a home that was Kara’s father’s salvation, and now it encompasses Kara’s dreams and her future. It is the perfect setting for a Christmas of healing, of love, of home, and reconciliation. I loved that the story showed us how people can and should show up and care for those around them, embodying the spirit of Christmas in their generosity and thoughtfulness. I appreciated that the author began the book with a prologue that introduced readers to Kara, providing background to readers who haven’t read the first two books. New readers will enjoy this story as much as readers who have read the others, but j encourage you to read the other books on the series.
Solid In-World Christmas Tale. This book picks up shortly after the events of Wildflower Hope and gives a brief Christmas interlude to Kara Hart’s story at Wildflower House. Works very well in-world and even gives a brief introduction to a pair of characters that could play larger roles in future Wildflower books. Very much recommended.
Spending Christmas with friends at the Wildflower House was the best!
There is no doubt that I adore all the characters, but to be part of the giving season was truly heartfelt!
Kara never ceases to amaze me. She wanted a quiet, peaceful Christmas; as only recently she had lost her Dad. However, she opens her heart and home to people who need her and the love and memories have now grown by leaps and bounds.
I could actually see the beautiful Christmas trees in the house and feel the love and excitement of each person as Christmas day came closer.
The surprise at the end of this novella brought me to happy tears. A true blessing!
I cannot wait to see how this series moves forward and all these people grow together.
Excellent!
This novella is part 3 of the Wildflower series. If you enjoyed this series,you will love this holiday novella. Can’t wait for the next installment to this series. I was given this ARC and this review is solely my opinion.
What a wonderful Christmas novella. This book is the 3rd in the series and was just as wonderful as the first two. Kara is hoping to have a quiet Christmas to get some rest and relaxation. Her dad’s younger sister, her Aunt Laura, is now in her life. Her dad would have been so happy to finally see her.
Kara and Aunt Laura were trying hard to find her brother, Lewis. What was suppose to be a quiet day at home ended up with a table full of family and friends. Since Maddie would be staying with Kara for a short time, a room got fixed up for her so she could be a princess. A beautiful story full of love, companionship, surprises, and having faith in God to hopefully get what we need. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
This was a wonderful heartwarming Christmas novella set in the Wildflower House series. I loved catching back up with Kara and her friends and neighbors. Kara thinks she is going to have a nice quiet Christmas but things never seem to turn out like you’d like them!!! I can not wait for more books in this series! I received an advanced readers copy and opinions are my own.
Grace Greene, author of “Wildflower Christmas” writes a heartwarming, charming delightful, cozy and entertaining novella. This is the third book in the series, and I feel that the reader would have a greater appreciation of reading the other two books. The Genres for this novella are Fiction, Women’s Fiction and Romance. The timeline for the story is in the present and goes to the past when it pertains to the characters or events in the story. The author describes her cast of characters as helpful and kind. Some have their own set of problems to deal with.
In “Wildflower Christmas,” Grace Greene discusses the importance of family, friends, neighbors, forgiveness, reconciliation, love and hope. Kate Hart still mourns the loss of her father. Kate has found her father’s sister, her aunt, and is thrilled to have found some family.
After some renovations, and landscaping at Wildflower House, Kate is prepared for a quiet Christmas. Little does she know that this Christmas will bring so much more. There will be surprises. I would recommend this heartwarming and delightful novella for those readers who enjoy a Holiday story.
A very sweet Christmas novella in the Wildflower House series. Friends and family gather to turn a tradition of quiet and alone to a beautiful gathering and surprises. The scenery and people at the Wildflower House makes me wish I was a part of the gathering. Thanks to the author for the ARC
Wildflower Christmas is a novella from the Wildflower series, the 3rd book. It can be read with the series or as a stand-alone. Kara Hart has dealt with a lot of changes this year; recovering from a serious accident, moving with her dad to the Wildflower House only to lose him shortly after. Taking on the huge task of converting the Wildflower House into an event center where groups can come and hold their parties, meetings, etc was a vision of hers she came up with when wondering what to do with the big house she was left with. Now it’s Christmas time, her 1st one without her dad, and she has planned a big celebration with her friends who have become family to her. It might just be the best medicine to help her heart to heal.
Kara has much for which to be thankful. She still misses her father after his unexpected death, but she has sweet, handsome Will in her life now and Aunt Laura, an aunt that she never knew is living close by. She is really looking forward to the new year. But first she has to get through Christmas.
Since Laura was raised by her father, holidays were not happy times and barely celebrated, so she is unaccustomed to the festivities, but this year will be different. There are a few surprises in store for Kara and just perhaps a miracle or two.
Yes, it was good to be back at Wildflower House, especially at Christmas….