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The Captain’s Christmas Homecoming by Lauri Robinson
Historical Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Historical
Published: 10.25.22
Pages: 288
Rating: 4 stars
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Buy It HERE
GoodReads Blurb:
Enjoy this emotional reunion
romance set after WWI
Can real life compare…
To the love in their letters?
When Emma first used a pseudonym to write to Captain George Weston on the front
line, it was because she felt responsible for his broken engagement. Yet his
letters became a light in the darkest hours, and she shared more of her desires
than she ever dared before, never imagining they’d actually meet. Now that he’s
home for Christmas, she longs to see him, but that means revealing who she
really is…
Sophia Rose's Review:
When he went away to war and his fiancé jilted him for
another man, one woman’s letters sustained him until he returned safe. Getting to know the man through his letters
was a surprise she wasn’t expecting, but then he wants to meet her. I only had to read the blurb showing this
started as a correspondence romance and became a post-WWI Holiday Romance
before I eagerly took up the book and delved into its pages.
George Weston comes from a wealthy family who are a great
part of the lumber empire in Albany, NY.
Now that the war is over, his father is ready to bring him on as a full
partner in the family business and George has some definite ideas that don’t
include a merger with another logging company forged through a marriage. If he was going to marry anyone, it would be
the woman who put her heart into the letters he received.
Emma felt guilt and responsibility that George Weston’s
former fiancé, her cousin, eloped with a man that followed Emma from NYC to
Albany so she used her sweet old lady neighbor’s name and started writing
George while he was overseas. Getting to
know the man is a complication particularly when he returns. Her cold aunt isn’t done trying to get the
lucrative merger back on track and besides, Emma has no intentions of marrying
so something would happen, like what happened to her parents to make her regret
it. If only George wasn’t such a
handsome, good man and old Beverly works some holiday magic of her own.
The Captain’s Christmas Homecoming was my first book from
this author, but it will not be my last.
I was bowled over by her attention to historical backdrop and setting of
Post-WWI Albany, the lumber and logging business world, the snags that
complicate the romance that come from both sides, and the engaging characters
of George, Emma, and sweet Beverly Buttons.
It spanned the whole holiday season from before Thanksgiving and I
enjoyed how this element was slipped in with the rest.
I enjoyed seeing George figure out Emma’s secrets and
thought her awkward moments of keeping him from guessing cute. She meant well and as the reader gets to know
her awful and strong Aunt Jill, Emma’s fears made perfect sense. Her issue about not getting marriage was
nonsensical and a way to protect her heart just as George’s thing about not
wanting to marry was easy to see through, too.
I really liked this pair together from the first time she caused the
punch to spill and the beautiful dancing moments happening after. It read easily and quickly with a heartwarming,
sweeter tone that I love in my holiday romances and a well-drawn historical
backdrop that was a grand surprise. Slip
this one into your gift stocking, for sure.
Author Bio:
Lauri Robinson's chosen genre to write is Western
historical, and when asked why, she says, "Because I know I wasn't the
only girl who wanted to grow up and marry Little Joe Cartwright."
With a degree in early childhood education, Lauri has spent three decades
working in the non-profit field for Head Start, Child Abuse Intervention, the
March of Dimes, and United Way. She claims the once upon a time and happily
ever after premise of romance novels has always been a form of stress relief.
When her husband suggested she write one, she took the challenge and has loved
every minute of the journey.
Lauri lives in rural Minnesota, where she and her husband spend every spare
moment with their three grown sons and their families, which includes three
granddaughters, two stepgrandsons and two granddogs. She volunteers for several
organizations, including her local library, and spends most fall weekends
filling the freezer with homemade foodstuffs from the bountiful harvest of her
husband's green thumb. She's a diehard Elvis fan (yes, she's been to
Graceland), and loves to spend Sundays watching NASCAR, either live or on TV.
However, she says her favorite weekends are spent in the woods of northern
Minnesota on the land homesteaded by her great-grandfather.
Most of her childhood was spent in western Kansas, which is the setting for
several of her stories. Lauri is a member of RWA, Northern Lights Writers,and
Hearts Through History Romance Writers, as well as several online writing
groups. She writes for Harlequin, Mills and Boon and The Wild Rose Press.
For updates on her writing please visit www.laurirobinson.blogspot.com
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia
is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing,
piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments,
restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible
man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes
Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and
Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that
Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a
prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many
wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading
tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and
romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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I love the sound of this one! I just can't resist a couple that gets to know each other through letters.
ReplyDeleteSame here! I get hooked on correspondence romances.
DeleteAwww. I would read this
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