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A review by yogicath
A Sugar Plum Christmas by Susan Hatler
5.0
This is book eight of the Christmas Mountain Clean Romance series and the main characters are Lacey Lane and Jacob Curtis. Lacey has come to the small town of Christmas Mountain to scout out locations for the next series of the reality TV show she produces, after one of her city friends moved there a year ago and fell in love with the place. She thinks it would make the perfect change from all the sea, sand and everything else, where the previous three series have been set and show off the quaint nature of this very special town, especially at this time of year with all the snow and decoration. Nearly every business is named with a Christmas theme and even the hotel she is staying in for the next two weeks is called the Sugar Plum Inn! If her idea for a location gets chosen, then she will finally be able to put down a deposit on a home of her own, something she never had growing up in foster care and constantly moving around. Jacob loves his town and never wants to leave it, but is also on the lookout for the kind of love his parents have. He helps out run the family inn, where Lacey is staying and she ends up knocking him off a ladder in her desperation for coffee when she first arrives, whilst also trying to show her boss Mel what the town looks like.
His sister was supposed to give Lacey a tour of the town, but has to try and find a large dog called Ribbons, who is an escape artist. Jacob ends up doing the tour and makes quite plain all of his negative thoughts about the show coming to his town and how it would ruin what makes the place so special. There are lots of places to show her and some have a very traditional place in the town’s heart and traditions. The Sharing Tree and Kissing Bench up by the Falls are perhaps the most famous and well visited by locals and visitors. Lacey finds herself starting to relax and enjoy the slower pace of life in the town that Jacob is trying to get her to notice, whilst flirting and joking with her. As she peruses the various shops, she finds other hints of what sort of a man Jacob is, as she finds evidence of other things he makes and helps out with. She is falling for him, but she is only there for a short time and it seems wrong to start any sort of relationship. She has a huge decision to make and it could either break her dream of finally having a home in the city that she has always dreamed of and a job she loves, or give all that up to have a more relaxed way of life with a man she realises she is in love with, in this small town. Huge decisions to ponder and the sudden appearance of her over the top boss Mel in town, throws everything in the spinner, as his ideas for everything will change the small town forever and not in a good way! Will she chance getting fired by disagreeing with everything in his vision for the show, or risk alienating the man she loves and the townsfolk who have become her friends? A few surprises at the end, in a lovely story of a town where every day reminds you of Christmas and where everyone would help another, in the drop of a hat. Romance blossoms and the story has a HEA ending. I just wish I had read all of the previous books in the series now! I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the books above.
His sister was supposed to give Lacey a tour of the town, but has to try and find a large dog called Ribbons, who is an escape artist. Jacob ends up doing the tour and makes quite plain all of his negative thoughts about the show coming to his town and how it would ruin what makes the place so special. There are lots of places to show her and some have a very traditional place in the town’s heart and traditions. The Sharing Tree and Kissing Bench up by the Falls are perhaps the most famous and well visited by locals and visitors. Lacey finds herself starting to relax and enjoy the slower pace of life in the town that Jacob is trying to get her to notice, whilst flirting and joking with her. As she peruses the various shops, she finds other hints of what sort of a man Jacob is, as she finds evidence of other things he makes and helps out with. She is falling for him, but she is only there for a short time and it seems wrong to start any sort of relationship. She has a huge decision to make and it could either break her dream of finally having a home in the city that she has always dreamed of and a job she loves, or give all that up to have a more relaxed way of life with a man she realises she is in love with, in this small town. Huge decisions to ponder and the sudden appearance of her over the top boss Mel in town, throws everything in the spinner, as his ideas for everything will change the small town forever and not in a good way! Will she chance getting fired by disagreeing with everything in his vision for the show, or risk alienating the man she loves and the townsfolk who have become her friends? A few surprises at the end, in a lovely story of a town where every day reminds you of Christmas and where everyone would help another, in the drop of a hat. Romance blossoms and the story has a HEA ending. I just wish I had read all of the previous books in the series now! I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the books above.