The Baby Who Saved Christmas
Alison Roberts
Harlequin Romance, Oct 1 2015, $5.99
ISBN: 9780373743582
Though knowing her late mom Jeannette would be horrified by what
she was doing, twenty-eight years old Scotswoman Alice McMillan’s search for
her family takes her from Edinburgh to Nice and by bus to
Villefranche-sur-Mer. The Kindercare
Nursery School teacher walks along a beach to St Jean Cap Ferat where she plans
to meet for the first time her famous racing car father André Laurent.
When she arrives at her destination, a stunned Alice observes
paparazzi and security guards stationed at a luxurious chateau. A guard notifies celebrity chef Julien Dubois
that Alice claims André is her father and seems unware that he just died. Expecting a con artist, Julien invites Alice
inside where he challenges her contention that she did not know Lauren crashed
his car three days ago and was buried today; three months ago his wife
(Julien’s sister) Colette died in childbirth.
Alice meets her half-brother Jacques who suffers from the measles. Julien explains his sister named him guardian
while Jacques paternal grandmother files a lawsuit in Paris to claim the baby
belongs with her. When the local doctor
quarantines everyone inside the chateau, Alice and Julien spend time together
and fall in love; but each distrusts the other and besides Jacques comes first.
More an extended family drama as the romance arrives late and
never quite gels; The Baby Who Saved Christmas is a fresh endearing Joyeaux
Noel European contemporary.
Character-driven, fans will enjoy this warm holiday story.
Harriet Klausner
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