Recent Release Review of The Best Gift by Eli Easton.

The Best Gift by Eli Easton 5*

BLURB: With help from a Christmas miracle, two bruised hearts find joy again.
Greg Cabot is the third generation to run Cabot’s Christmas Wonderland and tree farm in rural Vermont. But this year will be his last. Since the death of his son, Sam, in Afghanistan, Greg no longer has the heart to run a business based on holiday cheer. When he picks up a hitchhiking soldier on a snowy night, he finds the help he needs to get his farm through the holidays—and maybe much more.
Sergeant Robbie Sparks doesn’t have much to be thankful for this holiday season. Badly wounded in Afghanistan, he’s spent most of the past year in recovery and was discharged after ten years of service. When fate lands him at Cabot’s tree farm, he feels like he’s fallen into a snow globe reality. Friendly people, gorgeous trees, lots of Christmas kitsch… and Greg Cabot.
Greg believes he’s too heartbroken for romance, but those we love never truly leave us. A little nudge from heaven may help build a bridge for these two men trying to heal. If only they are willing to take that first step.
his stand-alone, long novella is a small town, Christmas cornucopia, May-December, hurt/comfort , military romance stuffed full of family and holiday feels.

My Review: I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. When I open a book by Eli Easton I expect a heart warming story with lots of great characters and that's exactly what I got with this one. 

I liked the descriptions of how a Christmas Tree farm works (and learnt a few things from that too). But most of all I truly loved the relationship between Greg and Robbie with it's slow burn and hurt/comfort theme. With that and the lovely Christmas feel to the story it put me in the right mood to start looking for more of the same. Meanwhile I might dig out some other books by this great author and re-read Eli's older Christmas stories.

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