Published by Haver Street Press on October 22, 2019
Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Holiday, Holidays, Romance, Small Town & Rural
Pages: 106
Format: eBook
Source: ARC
Two best friends. Ten Christmases. One happy ending.
When best friends Alexandra and Lucas share a first kiss on Christmas night their senior year of high school, it feels like the best years of their lives are ahead of them.
Then Alex goes off to college, and Lucas stays behind to work at his dad’s construction business in the small beach town where they grew up. Life, as they say, happens. And somewhere along the way these two high school sweethearts find they don’t have as much in common as they once did.
Lucas’s life is on Beaufort Island, and Alex is all about getting away and moving on. So he makes one of the hardest decisions of his life and lets her go.
But every year when Alex comes home for the holidays, fate conspires to reunite the two former lovebirds on Christmas Day. Year after year, through good times and bad, Lucas and Alex meet up, catch up, and reconnect on the anniversary of their first kiss.
Is it too much to hope that one year they’ll find their way back to each other permanently?
Maybe even this Christmas.
Frequently with novellas, I’m left wanting more because the story feels incomplete. I definitely felt satisfied with Maybe This Christmas. Alternating between Alexandra and Lucas’s POVs, we are treated to snap shots of their lives over the course of ten years when they return to their tiny Texas beach community for the holidays.
I think the thing I loved the most was getting the opportunity to watch both of them grow as the years go one and their priorities shift as they grow from love-struck teens, to college kids and finally becoming full adults with goals and responsibilities.
Alexandra and Lucas’s second chance romance had all the feels. My heart ached for each of them at different times and I laughed plenty. I thoroughly enjoyed this sweet holiday romance and definitely recommend it as a quick heartwarming read to ease you into your holiday reading.
*I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
About Susannah Nix
Susannah Nix is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Texas with her husband, two ornery cats, and a flatulent pit bull. When she’s not writing swoony, relatable romances, she enjoys reading, cooking, knitting, and watching British mysteries on TV. She is also a powerlifter who can deadlift as much as Captain America weighs.
