Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Home for the Holidays - Brenda Novak (Mira - Aug 2021)

Series: Whiskey Creek (Book 10.5)

Natasha Sharp was just a teenager when her mom married Mack Amos’s dad, and despite her crush, Mack always held her at arm’s length. Years after their parents’ divorce, they’re both adults when they run into each other at their hometown Christmas market. Will Mack still keep his distance, or is the timing finally right for their love?
 
This short novella serves as a bridge between the Whiskey Creek series and the Silver Springs series. Mack and Natasha met when she was sixteen, and he was twenty-five. Her mother had married his father, but those two were no kind of parents. Mack and his brothers took over looking after Tash. She made no secret of her feelings for Mack, but he always treated her like a little sister.
 
Years later, Tash returns to Whiskey Creek to visit her mom during the holidays and sees Mack again. Her feelings for him are just as strong, but what about his for her? I loved seeing Mack finally admit to himself that Tash is now a grown woman and what that means to him. There are some sweet scenes of the two as they wander the Christmas market, and you can feel the tension between them.
 
When they finally give in, it's everything that Tash hoped for. She has high hopes for their future, but the distance grows between them after her return to medical school. Heartbroken, Tash vows to move on until she realizes something that will make it impossible to forget him.
 
The story stops there, to be picked up in the Silver Springs book When I Found You. 

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