Well, all your worries are over now! We’ll straighten out your books, and then we’re going to make the season merry and bright. Oh, the season will be bright, Jill thought. That glow is just my family burning down.Jill O'Leary’s December has all the hallmarks of a feel-good holiday special. She’s a successful Los Angeles accountant summoned home to small town Ohio to save the family inn. There she’ll have to navigate a White Elephant gift exchange, decorate the tree, and meet not one but two tall dark handsome strangers.But it will take a miracle to make this Christmas merry and bright. Jill’s baggage is waiting for her at home: Regina, the demanding mother she hasn’t spoken to since her father’s funeral four months ago; her two nutty sisters Reagan and Del; Garrett French, a local real-estate mogul trying to snap her family’s inn; and Heath Albany, the married ex-boyfriend who’s suspiciously eager to reconcile with her.Jill is determined to get in, fix the family finances by herself, and get back to the big city as soon as possible. But keeping her mother from turning Christmas into a tragedy proves more drama than she can handle on her own. It’s going to take her conniving sisters, the division of an empire, sudden blindness, a journey through a pitiless storm, and an unlikely hero to give this tragicomic tale a happy ending.In this sharp literary riff on holiday storytelling, debut novelist Cat Hodge crosses classic Christmas tropes with Shakespeare’s King Lear. The result is honest, hilarious, and healing.Customers are saying: Hodge’s prose is a pleasure from end to end–clear, unpretentious, self-aware, yet still at times achieving the profound. This was a perfect quick read–with a perfect happy ending! This lady can write: Whip-smart and funny author. Looking forward to her next outing. Don’t be fooled into thinking this is another Hallmark Christmas story - there is much more depth and exploration of family dynamics.
