Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780505522870
ISBN number: 050552287X
Label: Love Spell
Manufacturer: Love Spell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: 1998-12
Publishing house: Love Spell
Sale Popularity Level: 1271770
Studio: Love Spell
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Love and the spirit of the season cast a spell on a lonely widow and a darkly handsome loner with a frozen heart in this holiday tale from the author of 'Christmas Pie'.
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Noah Partridge is a man with a heart so scarred that a flicker of happiness or the slightest sign that he might care about someone other than himself is an utterly dismaying event. Yet, when he meets a small family living in Rio Hondo, against his will, his stony heart begins to crack. Grace and Maddie Richardson are simply so good that he can not help but begin to care about them. Maddie is a little girl whose life has already been too hard, but she seems to find joy in the oddest moments. She sees the best in him, good Noah didn't suspect was in himself. As for her mother, Grace seems to embody her name, offering exactly what Noah needs, and paradoxically fears. There is one more member of this unusual group; Mac, Alexander McMurdo. This elfish eldster has a way of knowing things that he has no way to know. He has magic too. Whether it is Mac's enchantment and insight that brings Noah and Grace together, Maddie's dreams, or something far older guiding both forces to push these two reluctant, needy people together, as long as it ends happily, does it matter?
*** This heartwarming story taps into what Christmas means, love and grace to the lost hearts. When you've had a hard day shopping and being beat up by life, then this will be an anodyne to your soul. ***
Amanda Killgore, Freelance Reviewer
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I found this to be a wonderful, easy read. Set over Thanksgiving and Christmas in the rough and hard New Mexico territory, it tells the tale of two people, lost in their private pasts and determined not to let go. With the help of a magical wizard, disguised as a gentle old man, each overcomes to find each other and true love. Grace, a lonely widow, trying to hold on to her husband's dream and her desire to provide something for her daughter from her father, no matter what the cost or sacrifice. Noah, a survivor of the war, a survivor of the horrible Andersonville prison, but a survivor only in the physical sense. He is an emotionally damaged man who needs the very people he shuns. A truly easy read with a predictable yet none the less, enjoyable ending. A must for those of us who can suspend disbelief for a few minutes and hope that good things like this can happen to people in real life.
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Emma Craig spins an enchanted tale that has a tortured hero running from humanity...and into the world of a widow and her precocious little daughter, who live in the New Mexico Territory of 1869. The story takes place at the wagon yard and mercantile of Alexander McMurdo, a wizard who loves these three humans and is determined to bring joy into their lives with a little help from his magical powers.
The mercantile and wagon yard has been home to Grace Richardson and her daughter, Maddie, since her husband was killed by lightening several years prior. The lonely widow has nearly enshrined his memory, and she is determined to fulfill the dream they had shared of building a home on their land. Noah Partridge, bruised emotionally and physically from being a prisoner of war, has also suffered the loss of his family and the jilting by his sweetheart. He has come to the remote Southwestern desert looking for a piece of land to settle on. Noah is skin and bones, and cold of mind and heart-believing his soul has been lost. Arriving at the wagon yard, he feels he has found the place where he will have the isolation he seeks.
Mr. McMurdo, also known as Mac, has other plans for Noah and Grace, however. His wizardry draws them together, and with his help these two lonely souls both realize that love can heal even the most broken spirit. Emma Craig (a.k.a. Alice Duncan) reveals in parable how forgiveness of our fellow man, as well as ourselves, can be cleansing for the soul, mind, and body, while showing us that disappointments and struggles only serve to strengthen us. ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS is a delightful, uplifting read for the holiday season or any other time of the year. Her story will touch your emotions, and the magical happily-ever-after ending will leave you with a warm, contented feeling. ~Carol Carter for Bookbug on the Web
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Noah Partridge has seen enough war and betrayal and just wants to be alone. He comes to the wilderness looking for solitude. What he gets is people who care about him no matter how unfriendly he is.
Grace Richardson is a beautiful softhearted woman who lost her husband when he was struck by lightening in a storm. She's trying to make a life for herself and her daughter Maddie in a barren land.
What these two have in common is a piece of land that Grace owns and a loneliness as desolate as the land they live on. What they gain is something to last a lifetime. Noah wants Grace's piece of land that was given to her by her late husband for her daughter Maddie. Grace doesn't want to part with the land because it's the only legacy she has left of her husband to give to Maddie.
A whimsical tale of magic and laughter, with wonderfully written characters full of life. A hardened hero whose heart is softened by the beautiful heroine and her lovely daughter. A heroine who must overcome the fear of loss and love again. Ms. Craig has created a well blended story with enough laughter and magic to make for an excellent read. I look forward to the second book in this series.
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Noah Partridge is a broken man who only wants to be left alone. He has come to McMurdo's Wagon Yard in Rio Hondo, New Mexico territory, to forget his experiences during the Civil War and afterwards.
Grace Richardson wants to remember her late husband Frank and teach her small daughter about him. She works for Mac, who owns the Wagon Yard, in the Mercantile but just until she can pay off the mortgage on the land that Frank bought to build a ranch. She also cooks for him and Mac is providing shelter for Grace and her little girl, Maddie. Mac is also a surrogate grandfather to Maddie and there is more to him than meets the eye.
Mac is a delightful secondary character as is Susan Blackworth, wife of a local rancher.
This is a novel of growth, rebirth and redemption and Emma Craig has written it beautifully. The reader can see Noah change under the influence of Maddie and Mac. His very first scenes in the book are actually painful to read and the reader, as least this reader, felt much sympathy for Noah, and for everything he has been through. Grace is so closed up and unreceptive after Frank's death that she borders on hostile towards Noah at first. Maddie has less influence on Grace than she does on Noah but Mac has more.
A beautifully written, satisfying book just in time for Christmas. ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS is just the book to get the reader in the Christmas spirit.
Reviewed by Beth Coogan for Under the Covers
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