The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans is just a delightful holiday read! Elise and Nicholas are two people who are alone for the holidays (the worst time!) and trying to make the season bearable. They meet in the food court after noticing one another around their shared building for several days. Of course Elise has a mouth full of salad when Nicholas finally approached her and asks if he can sit with her.
Mighty Salads by Amanda Hesser
(Salad isn't always thought of as the most romantic food, but you never know when love will strike! Mighty Salads is a great "cookbook" of salad recipes that will fill your stomach, if not the hole in your heart.)
Neither Nicholas nor Elise is hoping for a relationship, they each just want to make it through the holidays without having to explain to family and friends why they are single. A contract between them is signed and expectations are spelled out. It begins November 6th and at midnight on Christmas Eve it ends, back to single life. They call it, you guessed it, the Mistletoe Promise.
Elise and Nicholas aren't the first to enlist the symbolism of mistletoe in their Christmas celebrations. There are a tremendous amount of mistletoe traditions, dating back to ancient Greece, Rome, and Norway and continuing through the Victorian era to modern-day.
As part of their Mistletoe Promise, Nicholas agrees to give Elise a gift every weekday and take her out on a “date” each weekend. But can Nicholas really commit to this generosity, especially when he has to travel to New York for his job?
People always come with a past, a hurt, but also hope. What does that mean to Nicholas and Elise’s agreement? Can they honor the Mistletoe Promise for seven weeks? As this is a book that finds itself solidly in the romance genre, it is not a spoiler to say that the couple does find their happily-ever-after, but the joy of the book is joining them for the journey there.
Cheers to a great, feel-good Christmas book! Well-done Mr. Evans! He is also the author of several similarly wonderful Christmas novels and series in our Christmas collections, if this one catches your fancy, be sure to seek out his other books as well!
Additional books in this series include The Mistletoe Inn and The Mistletoe Secret. We also have one of his other Christmas series, The Noel Collection (The Noel Diary, The Noel Stranger, Noel Street, and, his latest, The Noel Letters) and his novels The Christmas Box, Finding Noel, The Gift, and A Winter Dream. Plenty of feel-good books to snuggle up with this winter!
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What would your "Mistletoe Promise" look like? Who do you think would join you?
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