This is the perfect holiday book! I read it in July but was transported immediately to cooler times and fell in love. Perfect characters to spend a weekend reading with!

Three sisters who couldn’t be more different from each other with varying degrees of anxiety in their lives, all facing a life altering change. This story is told from 4 POV and while I understand the reasons for this, I almost think when we need so many peoples perspective an alternate style is needed. You have Posy, Beth & Hannah & also Suzanne - their mother. All considered main characters. While I felt like the plot had a fair amount of depth, the characters genuine angst, sometimes there was too much going on. You’ve got an intense situation developing for all 4 of them. I just prefer a deeper look at 2 characters. Posy was my favourite.

Conflict resolution is interesting, though a little hurried, nice pleasant ending.

I received this complimentary eARC from Netgalley. This is my honest review.

Suzanne 's three grown daughters are coming home for Christmas, but when they arrive, things are not as great as she'd hoped. Each daughter is dealing with their own personal problems, so a relaxed and happy holiday may not happen. I really liked this book. It had multiple story lines going, and I liked how all the sisters came together. My first book by this author, and I will be reading more. If you like Susan Mallery, this is a book for you!

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a free copy. Initially I had a hard time following this book. By the end of it, I was totally in love with the book. Suzanne and Stewart have adopted three sisters who were orphaned when their parents and Suzanne were mountain climbing. Each girl is dealing with the deaths of their parents and the years after in different ways. Each girl feels that the other sisters have the better lives. Coming together this Christmas has helped the girls rebond and discover just who they each are. Each girl has discovered just how special they are and how great family bonds can be.

Three sisters with a tragic past, living separate lives, now find themselves drawn back to the place of their childhood for Christmas and to the loving couple who took them in after losing their parents. Well-put-together Beth suddenly goes home to Scotland without her husband and kids. Career-minded Hannah, who skipped out last year, has arrived as well. Posy, the one who stayed and destined to take over the family diner, is restless and wanting a different life. Thru old hurts and new complications, the Christmas Sisters all come together, finally learn to accept their past and look forward to the future.

I was initially skeptical that a single book would be able to fully flesh out all 3 main characters; adding in their spouse/partners, and their parents, it all seemed to be too much. However, after a slow start, the story came to life and I can’t help but root for all 3 sisters as well as Suzanne and Stewart, their adoptive parents. I wanted them to understand each other, find that love and affection again for one another, and most especially, for Hannah to open her heart to Suzanne and Stewart, and for herself to accept love. My favorite part of the story though is the unconditional love that Stewart and Suzanne gave to these girls.

I sped through it and really enjoyed the story. It was heart warming and emotional. It’s my first time reading this author and I’m glad I found this book. Looking forward to reading her other stuff!P

I loved this book and all 3 sisters. This a series is something that I can recommend to any of my romance readers and know they will really enjoy it.

Delightful Christmas story. Family can be so challenging and yet there is love as the root of it all. The three sisters couldn't be more different but the bonds are strong. I loved this book 💗

In Sarah Morgan’s newest work, we’re introduced to three sisters who each deal with a past tragedy in different ways.

Twenty-five years ago, Hannah, Bethany, and Posey lost their parents in a horrible ice climbing accident right before Christmas. Their mom’s best friend Suzanne, adopts the girls and together with her fiancé, brings them to Scotland and his home-town to live.

Every Christmas the family gathers in Scotland to celebrate and even though Suzanne does her best to make the holiday as perfect as she can, old memories, fears, and anxieties usually rear up.

Hannah, the oldest, is career-driven, relationship-avoiding, and never talks about the incident that changed their lives. She shuns Christmas like vampires shun the sun and didn’t even come home last year. This year, though, is different. She may be pregnant, something that absolutely terrifies her and when the man she’s been seeing tells her he loves her, she panics and flies to Scotland early, stunning her family.

Bethany is the perfect mom. With an adoring husband who works more than he’s home and two daughters who suck the life out of her, Beth craves for something more. When she’s offered the opportunity to work for the women she did before she had kids, she leaps at it, thrilled. Jason, her husband, isn’t so thrilled. They have a huge fight and Beth leaves him to fly home – early, like Hannah – to Scotland.

Posey, the youngest, has memories of only Suzanne and Stewart, not her real parents. Unlike her sisters, she has no memory of the time before they came to Scotland and only remembers being loved, secured and protected. Scotland is the only home she’s ever known, but she aches to travels, see the work, and climb mountains, just like her parents did. How can she tell the only parents she’s ever known that she wants to leave and embark on the same kinds of adventures that killed her biological parents?

The character of Suzanne was my absolute favorite in this book. Just in her 20’s when her best friend is killed, she takes on the responsibility of 3 little, broken girls, not knowing how to be a mom, and only ever having been responsible for herself. In her, I see the true character of what I think every mother should be: selfless and filled with unconditional love.

THE CHRISTMAS SISTERS is a bit of a departure from Morgan’s usual light romantic fare, but it is a welcome detour. And don’t worry: there’s enough romance in this book to satisfy her legion of fans.

This was a wonderful story of family, forgiveness, unconditional love, and most of all the true bond of family and sisters.

Thanks you to Netgalley , and Harlequin romance for allowing me an early reader ARC for this wonderful book. 5 well deserved stars!

Three sisters, each thinking that the other has the perfect life but each with their own secrets.

Hannah, the oldest, is high up in a management consultant, flying all over the world helping companies work better. She's a genius but, of the three, the most scarred by their parents' death twenty-five years ago. It's led her to a life that is peripatetic with few relationships, even with her sisters. So now that she's got a man who's lasted longer than two months, she's starting to panic.

Middle sister Beth is a stay-at-home mom with two darling girls. But she's tired. She just wants to go back to work. When she gets that option, she's blindsided that her husband is thinking they should have a third child.

Posy, the youngest, just wants to leave home. But after the way her bio-parents died, she feels guilty for not wanting to stay and take over her adoptive parents' coffeehouse. She's getting just aa little taste of freedom with her current renter. But is he telling her everything about his past?

This was a heart-warming story that I sped through, not the usual Morgan fun and flighty contemporary romance. Yes, the stories suffered because of having three different characters in the book but this was overall just a lovely read and I look forward to seeing more like this from Morgan.



Four stars
This book comes out Septemeber 25
ARC kindly provided by NetGalley