Falling Like Snowflakes

Falling Like Snowflakes by Denise Hunter

When the Christmas season finds Eden in Summer Harbor, Maine, she's on the run from trouble. Romance is the last thing on her mind.

Riding in a bus in the thickly falling snow, Eden Davis wonders how it ever came to this--fleeing under cover of night with young Micah sleeping fitfully in the seat beside her. When a winter storm strands them in Summer Harbor, Maine, Eden wonders if what might have been the end could be a new beginning.

Beau Callahan is a habitual problem-solver. He's recently left his job with the sheriff's department to take over the family Christmas tree farm to save it from insolvency. But he's flummoxed. During the busiest season of the year, he's shorthanded. Then Eden shows up looking for work, and Beau believes he's been rescued. Competent, smart, and beautiful, Eden's also guarded and quiet. He soon figures out she comes with a boatload of secrets. But Beau can't seem to help himself from falling for her.

As Christmas Eve approaches, Beau discovers he'll do anything to keep Eden safe. But who's going to protect his heart from a woman who can't seem to trust again?**

Eden is running from something with her young son. She's got to get to her friends cabin, she just knows that she'll be safe once she gets there. The car she bought though didn't make it, it just got her to Summer Harbor, Maine.  When she decides the best she can do is wait and see how much it's going to cost to fix the car, Eden and Micah go to a diner and grab a bite. Life is so bad when it's bad because her bag with all her money get stolen. So here is this poor woman, shes running from something bad, no ID, now no money and she's got no way to get anywhere but her own two feet. She's told that the Christmas tree farm may have some openings for seasonal help. So she walks, a long way to this farm and there are no jobs. It's dark and now Eden needs to find a way back to town, but walking isn't going to work. She's tired and so is Micah, so she breaks in to one of the out buildings to sleep.

It's the first Christmas that they're going through since Beau's dad died. Really even though they run a Christmas tree farm, they don't do much in the way of Christmas celebrations. The woman he just turned away that was looking for a job at the farm, he found her in an out building that she broke in to. Something is going on with her. He can't quite put his finger on it but she's hiding something. Her son doesn't talk, at all, and she gets fidgety when he asks questions about her past or her family. The family needs some one to take care of their aunt, this woman needs a job so two birds one stone. Kate (Eden) is attractive, funny and smart. She appeals to him and its wrong because he's got a girlfriend.  The longer he's around Kate, the more he wants to know and protect her.

I felt like too much was going on in this story. It wasn't awful but I think if some of it was pared down it would've flowed better. Eden really had trust issues and honestly I couldn't blame her with all the things she'd seen and had to deal with. Beau was really oblivious to things going on in his own home with his brother. I don't want to say too much about things because it will ruin the plot and some of the lines of the story. I don't know if I'll read more of this line of stories but I may, depending on who's story it is! Leave the author love in the form of a review.

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