Holiday Review: The Christmas Secret by Donna VanLiere

The Christmas Secret by Donna VanLiere

Published: October 13, 2009

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Format: audiobook via Overdrive

Ratings: 3/5

Synopsis

When a struggling young single mother saves the life of an elderly woman, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty, and determination, all the while setting her on the path to finding true love.

Christine Eisley is the mother of seven-year-old Zach and five-year-old Haley. Her ex-husband provides little, if any, child support and makes life difficult for Christine by using the children as pawns. She works long hours as a waitress to make ends meet, but her job is in jeopardy because she’s often late to work due to the unreliable teenaged sitters she’s forced to use. When Christine saves the life of a woman who works in Wilson’s department store, the owner of Wilson’s wants to find her, to thank her, but Christine has disappeared, losing another job once again. He sets his grandson, Jason, to the task of finding the mysterious “Christy.” Jason, an accountant by trade who has lost his job to downsizing, thinks he is “above” working at Wilson’s. Soon, he discovers that this new task gives him more than he bargains for.

My Thoughts

In The Christmas Secret, we met Christine who is a single mother and who is trying to make ends met when she helps a woman who has a health crisis at a local department store, she leaves and the woman never knows who saved her life. Christine’s ex-husband is threating to take the kids away so Christine tries to find a new job but it seems like nothing she does can get her ahead of things. She soon meets Jason but due to a miscommunication he doesn’t know her true identity and while they hit it off Christine thinks he is sent my her ex to spy on her. Jason’s grandfather is on a mission to find the person who saved his employee's life and little do they know its none other than Christine. I liked this read with Christine’s mission to make a better life for her and her kids however all she needs is a little help and a break to make it happen. Will Christine get a Christmas miracle to change her life or will Christmas be nothing but heartache for her kids? This is one read that was cute and inspirational with a little romance through in for good measure.