Continuing in a festive annual tradition, New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber returns with a new original holiday novel full of romance and cheer – and the magical prospect of finding love in even the most guarded hearts.
Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she’s tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that’s the last straw. She’s going to break through Cain’s Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how: by killing him with kindness.
To track her progress, Julia starts a blog called The Twelve Days of Christmas. Her first attempts to humanize Cain are far from successful. Julia brings him homemade Christmas treats, and the disagreeable Grinch won’t even accept them. Meanwhile Julie’s blog becomes an online sensation, as an astonishing number of people start following her adventures. Julia continues to find ways to express kindness and, little by little, chips away at Cain’s gruff façade to reveal the caring man underneath.
Unbelievably, Julia feels herself falling for Cain – and she suspects that he may be falling for her as well. But as the popularity of her blog continues to grow, Julia must decide if telling Cain the truth about having chronicled their relationship to the rest of the world is worth risking their chance at love.
A fast holiday read. I am a big fan of Debbie Macomber and her holiday books. A very cute holiday story, a bit predictable, but nevertheless very enjoyable. Twelve Days of Christmas can’t compare to her holiday angels, but still a good holiday story. This would be a great experiment to try, kill everyone with kindness.
Delightful! I have read many books by this author including the Christmas themed ones. The past two years have been very difficult and depressing due to my mothers increase in ailments which led to her death. Then a few months later I became extremely I’ll with months in hospitals then e end more months recovering, which I’m close to. This included moving twice and being broadsided on my way home from purchasing a car. Thus, when I saw this book I had to read it. It more than met my expectations and just…
A sweet Christmas tale This book was right at the top of my Debbie Macomber favorites. I had just finished reading Merry and Bright, Debbie’s latest Christmas story, and needed a little more of my ‘Debbie fix’, so I bought Twelve Days. Am so glad did! As is always the case, Debbie’s fairly predictable ending, however, as she always does, she made the trip to the end delightful. She helps lead you forward meeting and then becoming friends with each character, even the pets. Thank you Debbie for helping my…