This book returns you to Eternity Springs. Dr Jenna Stockton has a stalker. She and her young son have gone off the grid to escape the stalker. Jenna and her son have returned to Eternity Springs after spending an enjoyable Christmas there. Devin Murphy was home from Australia visiting his family for Christmas and is back in town again. Jenna is attracted to Devin and her son forms a bond with him, but Devin isn’t interested in a long term relationship.

This story takes place over a period of a year which allows relationships to develop slowly. The setting of the story is Eternity Springs, an idyllic small town. There is a good cast of characters that you will like. The only criticism is the ending of the stalker story was a bit anti-climactic. This is part of a series but easily stands on its own. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

I love a good holiday romance novel. This book wasn't what I expected but ended up being very sweet & a good story. The stalking of Jenna & Reilly storyline kept the story suspenseful The sparks flying between Devin & Jenna kept it interesting as well. I recommend reading this book to see more of Eternity Springs, especially if you've visited before. :-)

Thank you to Net Galley, Emily March and St. Martins Publishing for providing me with my digital copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

THE CHRISTMAS WISHING TREE
By Emily March

This charming story surprised me with the plot focusing on an adoptive mother named Jenna who has a son named Reilly. Reilly still believes in Santa and calls Devin who plays along as Santa. Devon is also adopted but is a grown man who returns to Colorado and borrows a burner phone when he drops his cell phone in the water. Reilly wants a father for Christmas. Devon is visiting his adoptive parents from Australia when he borrows the phone.

What I didn't expect was the trauma that Jenna and Reilly experience in regards to Reilly getting a broken arm due to getting swatted. I was looking for a feel good story without all of the drama of Jenna and Reilly getting to the point of hiding their identities. They are revisiting the charming town but they have to hide who they are.
I did not enjoy this element of the story. I wouldn't want to read any other books in this series. I am not posting this as I don't post negative reviews. This book was a bad fit for me.

The Christmas Wishing Tree is the latest in Emily March's Eternity Springs Series. The towns wonderful cast of characters once again help to solve another mystery that comes to play with Devin, home for Christmas from Australia. His phone is damaged and he is given a burner phone from none other than Celeste. Answering the phone that evening Devin is introduced to Reilly who thinks he is calling Santa. The charade continues throughout the book with the trials of his mother, Dr. Jenna Stockton trying to escape the 'bad guys' who continue to call her, send multiple orders of pizza and finally escalate the terror for she and Reilly.
As all the books in the Eternity Springs series do, the townsfolk along with Celeste ,bring this wonderful spot in the Colorado Mountains to life. I have enjoyed all of them.

Jenna is a single mom, looking for a safe magical place for her son. Devin is a free spirited man, and likes to avoid entanglements. Reilly is a scared little boy. When Reilly calls santas hotline it changes the destiny of Jenna, Reilly, and Devin. I love Eternity Springs and there own angel Celeste. I loved this book, it was nice to catch up with the community of Eternity Springs. To hear about the weddings, engagements, and births. Emily March has such a way with words.

A truly beautiful Christmas story.
Eternity Springs is such a wonderful place. I love going back there.
This book is filled with goodness and light. Romantic, suspenseful and a very
Dramatic happy ending. Perfect!

The Christmas wishing tree is enchanting count of the Christmas magic and miracle of christmas. A man loves adventure and open sees. Devin Murphy returns to eternity spring. He doesn't hesitate to play along when a young boy plays as Santa. You will love this book I surely did for the way this story is told..

I couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. I did like how it goes from one Christmas to the next then to June of the following year. You will fall in love with Eternity Springs when you read this book and as I said with the last book I read these make me want to go back and read all of the series. All these books can be read as a stand alone but once you start reading you want to know the background of everyone which makes you want to go back and read the previous books. This book gets you in the mood for Christmas and a feel good story. I think this could be a Hallmark Christmas movie.


*I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.*

GREAT, intriguing, touching, heartwarming story. Briefly, on Christmas Eve six year old, Reilly from Nashville has a wish he really wants filled. So he calls Santa at North-Pole-one. This being the number the lady at the Christmas store said was Santa’s phone number. Devin Murphy just got a burner phone and gets Reilly’s call. Reilly is wishing for a daddy of his own. Not wanting to break the imagination of a boy who still believes in Santa, Devin listens and gives advice to keep wishing and believe it will come true. Reilly called back after Christmas to thank him for the presents he did get. Concerned about the calls, Devin tries to contact the mom with no success. Having being stalked, Reilly’s mom Jenna never answered the unfamiliar callers number. NO MORE plot but I couldn’t put the book down. This is my first Emily March book. Won’t be my last. I must go back and read her others.

Ten year old Reilly's calls Santa to ask for a daddy. Devin answers the call on his borrowed phone and plays along. Reilly's mom Jean is a busy doctor with no idea these calls are happening. When Reilly and Jean visit Eternity Springs they discover the magic of this wonderful town. An enjoyable story perfect for the season.

The Christmas Wishing Tree is the latest book in prolific author Emily March’s Eternity Springs series. Aussie Devin Murphy is home in Eternity Springs, Colorado to visit his family for the Christmas holidays. When his phone is damaged while he is helping Celeste Blessing hang lights at her spa retreat, Angel’s Rest, Celeste gives him a spare phone to use while his is being fixed. This phone has the unusual phone number that spells out North Pole1.

When 6 year old Reilly Stockton calls this number to ask Santa for the one thing he wants more than anything else, a dad of his own, Devin doesn’t know what to do. He repeatedly tries to get ahold of Reilly’s mom, Dr. Jenna Stockton, without success until she finally does answer and is quick to accuse him of being the stalker that has been doxxing her for several months.

Reilly’s mom and his Santa Devin work out a plan so Reilly won’t be disappointed culminating in a planned final phone call on New Year’s Day. But Reilly isn’t able to take that phone call after the swatting experience that happened just before the new year began.

After several missed opportunities, Jenna and Devin’s paths do finally cross in a summer visit home for him and a stay at a local campground for her. Jenna and Reilly have been on the run for months since the second swatting incident in Tallahassee. Her stalker has taken away their sense of safety and security, but Devin is determined to restore this and catch her stalker once and for all.

In this lovely holiday story of love and loss, Ms. March spins a delightful tale. But it is also a cautionary tale of the horrible things that can occur in this technological age and how a person on the other end of a keyboard can make a target run, thus ruining their lives. In this story, however, Devin and his friends are able to bring a happy conclusion to Jenna’s angst and lead to a promising future for all.

I did enjoy this book and do recommend it!

Dr. Jenna Stockton loved her career as an obstetrician, but often regretted the time it took away from her life with her adopted son Reilly. Reilly’s most fervent wish was for a dad, and who better to ask than Santa? When Reilly called Santa’s number, using Jenna’s phone, he was delighted to find that Santa was kind and understanding, and they both enjoyed their conversations. But Jenna and Reilly’s peaceful world was unraveling. Someone was sending Jenna huge orders of pizza, other items she hadn’t ordered, and even a white water rafting trip, a painful reminder of her parents’ passing. The night the SWAT team stormed the house, handcuffing Jenna and breaking Reilly’s arm, Jenna knew they needed to leave town.

Devin Murphy was stunned to get a call from a little boy who believed he was talking to Santa, on a phone he had borrowed from a friend. When he finally got the opportunity to talk to Reilly’s mom, he understood her defensiveness, but enjoyed their conversation. Devin had made arrangements for Reilly to call to say goodbye, as Devin was returning to Australia later that week. Jenna called him to let him know Reilly wouldn’t be calling, since his arm had been broken and he was sedated.

Jenna and Reilly’s response to the traumatic turn their lives had taken was logical – who wouldn’t want to go off the grid after two different SWAT teams, in two different cities, break through your door? Eternity Springs is a magical place, where people can feel safe, and I can understand her wanting to ask for help and being afraid to all at the same time. As you might expect, the HEA includes Jenna and Devin, and Reilly got the dad –and the dog – he’d been longing for.

Jenna is a Doctor with a young son. She is being harassed, horribly. After they are both terrified one night when a SWAT team breaks into their home and breaks her son's arm, she moves = twice = When it starts happening again, she sells everything, changes her and her son's identity, buys a truck and trailer and, decides to travel around the country, always keeping one step ahead of her unknown stalker. They end up in Eternity Springs just before Christmas. Devin is the wandering son of a large family in Eternity Springs. He loses his phone and, is given a burner phone by one of the town's "angels". He starts getting Dear Santa calls from a young man and, decides to play along.. He never realizes who this kid or his mother is until he comes back to Eternity Springs months later, ironically, the same time that Jenna and her son come back to visit.
This is, yet another story about Eternity Springs that makes you wish the place was actually real and, you could pack up and move there!
I reminds you that anything is possible, if you just BELIEVE!

This is the 15th book in the Eternity Springs series by Emily March and reading it will leave you with a warm, happy feeling and have you wishing that you could step into the world that Emily March has created and live there.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this still new to me author's book and look forward to reading more.

What a delight it was to read this on a day when it was 95 degrees! Well, it would have been a delight pretty much whenever I read it. Even though I haven't read this series, that wasn't a problem at all because the sweet story of Jenna, Reilly, and Devin is perfectly contained within. Make no mistake, no matter what a stalker does, that stalker is a threat and that's what motivates Jenna to take Reilly and move to a new town. Devin finds himself attracted to her but there are some ups and downs along the way. You just know, don't you, that these three (along with a puppy) are going to make a good family? March has written a quick, heartwarming read. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. This is one for when you'd like a HEA.

This is a very sweet book. I tend to binge on Christmas books every year and this one looked interesting even though it is book 15 in a series I have never read before. It is easily read as a standalone although I am sure I would have a much fuller understanding of Eternity Springs and its inhabitants if I had read the others in the series. Really Eternity Springs seems like other small towns in romance books series where everything is saccharine sweet and it seems like it would make for a lovely weekend getaway but the thought of living there gives me hives.

This book has romance, suspense, a very cute kid, and a mother in an extremely difficult situation. I was very interested in seeing how everything turned out. My only complaint was that it was a tad overlong.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. I would love to read the whole series but $8 for ebooks is just too much for my purse. The characters were well written and fit together well. The Suspense part was a little anticlimactic but the love story made up for it. It was written such that you could really envision the town and surrounding area. Thank you for allowing me to read this.

I am thankful to St Martin’s Press for offering me an ARC copy of this novel that I freely chose to review and for the opportunity to participate in the blog tour of its launch.
Although I am not a big fan of Christmas, I do enjoy some Christmas stories, movies, and songs (especially out of season, when one isn’t surrounded by it). The offer to read and review this novel reached me in the middle of a pretty hot summer and it felt like the perfect way to combat the heat. It worked, for sure, and although I had never read any of the other novels in the Eternity Springs series, I quickly became enamoured of the place and its inhabitants. I can reassure you, though, that the story goes beyond the Christmas theme, and there are wonderful scenes that take place in other seasons (the Fall, the Fourth of July…) and other locations apart from Colorado (Nashville, Florida, Australia, and the Caribbean). But I have to agree that the overall theme of the novel, and the spirit that suffuses it, is that of Christmas.
The novel, written in the third person, shares the alternating points of view (and locations) of a part-time resident of Eternity Springs, Devon Murphy (the son of Cam and Sarah Murphy, and brother to Michael, long-term residents of the town), and Jenna Stockton, a doctor specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology whom we meet in Nashville. While Devon seems to be a free-spirited man who loves the sea, boats, fishing, and women, but avoids commitment like the plague, Jenna is a model of responsibility. She is a single mom to Reilly, whom he adopted after looking after his mother, a young woman down on her luck who died when the boy was a toddler. She works hard and would do anything to ensure the safety and happiness of her son. But he has a Christmas wish that is out of her hands. Somehow, luck, magic, or the power of believing puts Reilly and Devon in contact, and in a roundabout way, the destinies of the three of them intersect in the wonderful town of Eternity Springs. Both main characters have secrets (as readers of the genre will probably expect): Devon has a traumatic past in the relationships department and has a lot in common with Reilly, and Jenna’s life is haunted by a stalker who seems intent on upping-the-ante and putting her and her son’s lives at risk.
I liked the characters and their relationship, that follows the well-known formula of will-they/won’t-they so successful in the romance genre (they both have very valid reasons for their hesitation, although if you get easily impatient, I must warn you that the book is quite long and the story develops over close to two years), and I liked many of the secondary characters as well (despite not having read other novels in the series, I got a fairly good sense of who they were, and I did not feel I could not fully enjoy the story because of lack of background information. And I wouldn’t mind getting to know more about many of them), particularly Celeste, her resort, and the wonderful idea of the Wishing Christmas Tree that gives the book its title. She has a touch of the magical and is the fairy godmother of the town and all the characters (and I’d love to meet her).
What I most enjoyed of the book was the town of Eternity Springs. I have read a number of novels that take place in charming towns (islands or other locations) where outsiders come and are quickly adopted by the community, becoming, in many cases for the first time, part of a big family. I always enjoy the fact that the town becomes a protagonist in its own right and when the novels works well, you feel as if you had spent time in a real place and look forward to future visits to the magical location. Eternity Springs is one of those towns, and to add to its attraction, it is located within a marvellous natural setting, and the writer does a good job of introducing us to parks, lakes, mountains, taking us on sledge rides, fishing, camping, and exploring the wonderful facilities and the traditions of the place. Although it has more than a touch of the fairy tale (everybody seems to be well-off, everybody is fairly happy, apart from the main protagonists, temporarily, and even the bad things that happen are pretty mild) and it can be a bit sugary at times, I think it would take a very cold heart to read the novel without falling for the magic of the town and its inhabitant. (And perhaps shed a tear or two. Good tears, though).
If I had to point out some things that readers might have issue with, one would be the mystery element. Jenna’s background story and her circumstances bear heavily upon her actions and how cautious she is when it comes to meeting new people and possible romances. Although the mystery element ramps up the tension and adds to the interest of the story, on occasions it seemed to be more of an afterthought and an opportunity to show Devon and his friends (all male) as a team capable of investigating and keeping everybody safe (and yes, some elements of the rescue fantasy and the knight in shining armour were clearly at work there). Although Jenna herself complains at times about being treated like a weak woman in need of protection —despite being a competent professional who had managed well by herself until that moment— this novel keeps to conventional and traditional gender roles rather than challenging them. I know that such plots and story-lines are typical of many romantic (wish-fulfilment) novels but might not suit all readers, especially those who prefer women in charge of their own destinies. As a reader of thrillers and mystery novels, I did not feel the mystery would have satisfied fans of the genre, as we are not given enough information to solve it (we get some details of the case but others are brushed over quickly and the resolution, when it arrives, is somewhat anticlimactic), and it takes a backseat to the romantic part of the story. Having read other books that mix both genres, and this being a romance with some mystery thrown in, rather than the other way round, I did not think its intended readers would be too disappointed.
There are many other subplots I have not mentioned, including dogs, pregnancies, health scares, fishing, older motherhood, baking, National Parks, love of nature, adoption, social media, stalking, counselling, vocation, tropical storms, family, traditions, Santa Claus, magic, traumatic relationships… There are wonderfully vivid and memorable scenes, the style of writing is easy and fluid, and the descriptions bring to life both the locations and the characters (without going overboard with the physical descriptions of the protagonists and love interests, although yes, don’t worry, they are attractive), and there are some sad moments, some funny ones, and many emotional and heart-warming scenes as well. There is plenty of sexual attraction and tension between Devon and Jenna, but there is no graphic sex and although there are some thrilling scenes, the doors stay firmly closed behind the protagonists when it comes to that side of things.
I know readers of romantic novels expect a happy ending. Well, you won’t be disappointed here. What’s more, I know some readers can get really upset if they feel there are elements in the story that are not fully solved and hate it when they feel that writers are using hooks and unresolved issues to keep them buying books in a series (not everybody feels the same, though). As I have said before, this novel can be read independently from the rest of the series, and all the plots and subplots of the story, even the secondary ones, are solved satisfactorily. So don’t hesitate to pick up this novel just because it’s part of a series. You will feel sad it has ended but it won’t keep you awake at night trying to guess what happened next. I kept imagining this novel as either a movie, or better even, a TV series, and would be surprised if some production company didn’t snatch it up. Done well it would be irresistible.
In sum, this is a novel that takes place in a magical location, in gorgeous settings, with a Christmas theme and a hopeful message, a romance that includes elements of mystery/thriller, with likeable characters that will make you feel home. I, for one, won’t hesitate to visit Eternity Springs again in the future.

The magic and faith in Chrstmas makes it a great time of year. When Devin answers a phone call he never guessed what would happen next. Jenna was a hard working single mom, maybe a little too hard working. Reilly was upset that she had to cancel plans with him so often because she had to go into work. When it came to her job or keeping Reilly safe, she chose Reilly. I enjoyed revisiting some characters that popped up in the pages of this story and you will too. Get your copy now.

The Christmas Wishing Tree is a great romance. I fell in love with the town of Eternity Springs, Devin Murphy, and Celeste Blessings. When Celeste gives Devin a replacement cell phone for one that is broken, the story begins with a call from a little boy looking for Santa. This call is what takes Devin on a long and interesting trip to connecting with Devin's mother, Jenna. A connection that is in danger of being ripped away when she comes under attack from several deadly "pranks."

The relationship was really great for me because it didn't happen overnight. Devin and Jenna circled each other for a long time before finally reconnecting on accident one summer in Eternity Springs. But Jenna is on the run, and Devin doesn't know if he wants to settle down. They are both adults thought, which was a great thing because there was no needless drama or arguing.

The one thing I was disappointed in was the resolution to the deadly prankster. It is such a driving force throughout the whole book, and then it just goes away in the span of a couple pages. Yes, it is resolved, but I didn't feel like it was given the attention it really needed.

*I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of this book*