Wow! This is the first book I have read by this author and I adored it. It was easy to read and flowed so smoothly between chapters. The characters were heartwarming, and the town of Silver Bells was so charming. I was instantly enchanted with the book once I started reading.
Abigail “Abby” Powell had just been surviving after her husband died. She was ready to have a fresh start and move to a new town. When Lucy, her best friend, called and needed someone to stay with her grandmother, Abby was glad to help before her move to Texas. Winnie, Lucy’s grandmother, lived in Silver Bells, Colorado in a historical house named Holiday House. Abby was excited to create a wonderful Christmas experience for her son Christopher. She wasn’t sure about helping Winnie decorate Holiday House for the Silver Belles’ fundraiser but once she started, she had plenty of help. She grew to love the town and all the new friends they had made.
Ethan Lancaster, Winnie’s grandson, wanted Winnie to cancel the fundraiser since she needed to recuperate from her fall. They convinced him that Winnie would only supervise so she could recover. Ethan tried to escape Winnie’s attempt at matchmaker, but he couldn’t tell her no. As Ethan gets to know Abby and Christopher, he is charmed by them. After his ex-fiancé broke up with him and told him he was not capable of love, Ethan thought he would never feel love. Abby and Christopher touch his heart in a way he had never experienced, and he wanted them to stay in Silver Bells. He wanted a future with them as a family. Can he convince Abby to give him a chance?
I’m so glad I found this author and had a chance to read this book. I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to future books from this author.

Another great holiday story from Ms. Thayne! It's a story of circumstances. Do our past experiences define what will happen in our future?

Ethan and his sister Lucy were used as bargaining tools by their parents growing up. Their safe haven was with their grandparents at Holiday Hill. Now as adults, grandma Winnie has taken a fall and they rally around to help her. In the process each is offered a love they're not sure they deserve.

I received a free ARC eBook from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for my honest opinions. I suggest you go out and buy this heartwarming story!

This Christmas story is very predictable but a joy to read. Abby and her young son arrive in Silver Bell, Colorado to live and care for her best friends grandmother, Winnie. She's a nurse who is questioned and rebuffed by Winnie's adult grandson, Ethan. Of course sparks fly and Winnie and Abby prepare Holiday House for the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. With a tender ankle, Winnie has Abby cooking and decorating and everyone happy and in the Christmas mood except for poor Ethan. A beautiful Christmas love story that you can read during the busy weeks ahead. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Christmas At Holiday House is a wonderful story of family and traditions and inclusion. The perfect read for the holiday season! I loved the setting and wish I could go to Holiday House for Christmas too!

Christmas at Holiday House by RaeAnne Thayne once again is another wonderful read by this author. This time she has written a sweet, charming and sentimental Christmas story. I would have to say the way she has captured the setting of Silver Bells, lends a beautiful backdrop for the characters of the storyline. This is a beautifully written story about second chance love that touches the heart. I certainly would recommend this clean romance to anyone, looking for a holiday read that touches the heart.

I received a ARC from NetGalley and the publisher and was under no obligation to leave a favorable review, all opinions expressed here are my own.

WOW!
This is a wonderful holiday read.
It has everything that Raeanne Thayne does so well!
Lifelike setting ... quirky characters ... a love story that makes you swoon ... couples you cheer for ... it’s all there!
Raeanne Thayne is an auto-read for me. I’m never disappointed.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an arc in exchange for my honest review.

Wow. What a wonderful holiday story. Abby and Nathan were perfect for each other and her little boy only made it more terrific. Both had emotions(or lack of) to overcome and they did. I want to live there

Welcome to the small town of Silver Bells, Colorado! It is beyond is a perfect location for the Christmas season with it's snow-covered mountains, warm fires, and seasonal decorations. The description of the town and Holiday House is so well written in this book. You can easily picture them and feel as though you are there.

Abby's friend has asked her to travel from Arizona to Silver Bells to care for her grandmother who was injured in a fall. Abby agrees and packs up her son, Christopher, to do just that. Abby and Christopher are both such warm and loving characters. It was so easy to like them both. Then there was Ethan, Lucy's brother, who comes to Silver Bells and honesty he was so wonderful.

This book was like one of those heart-warming Hallmark movies that we wait all year to watch. It was simply marvelous and I enjoyed every moment of it.

Thank you to Net Galley for an advanced copy of this book. I love RaeAnne Thayne books and this book was no exception. She grips you right from the start and completely holds you captive until the end. I love the quirky aunt and the Silver Belles group that she is associated with. The best thing about this book is you get two love stories in one!! You find yourself cheering for both couples and in the end you are not disappointed. The two female characters are strong gritty women who are overcoming things from their past, but the two male characters seem too good to be true, but isn't that what you are looking for in a seasonal read!! This is a great holiday read that promises the happily ever after that you look for in a Christmas book.

A good, heartwarming Christmas story. Loved the characters, especially Christopher. Abby has been a widow for a couple of years and decided that she and her son needed a change. They would move from Phoenix to Austin after they go to Colorado to help her best friend's grandmother. She thought it would be a great time to give her son some holiday memories. They got that and so much more. Ethan had broken up with his fiancee a year ago and wasn't sure he had the capacity to love. He and his sister were raised by very selfish parents. They were shuttled around between their parents for years until their grandmother decided they were to stay with her. Abby has shown Ethan that he does have the capacity to love as he loves Abby and Christopher. Will she reconsider her move to Austin and stay with him?

Few authors can match RaeAnne Thayne when it comes to writing sweet, charming, feel-good, sentimental Christmas stories that fill the reader with the warm fuzzies, and she's done it again in Christmas at Holiday House, her latest novel, which gets 5 stars from this reader.

The setting is as much a character in this story as the rest of the cast of characters, and that setting is Silver Bells, Colorado, a picture postcard of a quaint ski resort town, the center of he family's hotel/resort chain, and Holiday House, a huge grande dame of a Victorian mansion that's housed several generations of the Lancaster family. The only one living there at the moment is almost 80-year-old Winnie, pink hair and all, who, just before Thanksgiving, had the brilliant idea of giving Christmas tours of her historic home, complete with a dozen Christmas trees, her many valuable collectibles on display, carols from a group of local ladies called the Silver Belles Choir, refreshments included. It's intended as a fundraiser for her pet project, a ski resort experience for the alternately abled, a noble and admirable cause. But Winnie slips on the stairs, breaking her wrist, spraining her ankle and breaking several ribs--luckily she doesn't break her hip, her leg, or her back. Her grandson, Ethan Lancaster, head of the family hotel chain, wants to put her into assisted living, or at least a one-story condo, but she's not budging. Holiday House is her home and her pride and joy and she isn't leaving.

Enter Abigail Powell, who is a nurse, has been widowed for 2 years, and is the mother of an adorable five-year-old boy named Christopher. She lives in Phoenix, but has decided to pack up and get a fresh start away from the city where her husband was shot and killed by a hospital mental patient--her destination is Austin, Texas, and she's already found a place to live, a job, checked out the school system, and cultural opportunities there for her son. Then she gets a phone call from her former college roommate and closest friend, Lucy, who needs a big favor.

Lucy Lancaster has spent more than the last decade working for the Peace Corps and other places all over the world in need of her talented and giving soul. Knowing that she can't get home in time to care for her beloved grandmother, siding with her against her brother's idea of making Winnie leave her beloved home, and knowing that her best friend, Abby, is a nurse, she asks if Abby can spent the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas caring for Winnie at Holiday House, and Abby finally agrees, thinking Christmas in a house she's heard about since her college days, in a ski resort town complete with snow, will be a wonderful Christmas experience for young Christopher, and is it ever.

Both Ethan and Lucy Lancaster were raised by incredibly dysfunctional, self-absorbed parents, whose many divorces, marriages, lovers, and the constant tug-of-war over custody or not wanting custody left both of their children with the idea that love and marriage were a disaster and definitely not for them. It's hard to blame them for feeling that way, but their happiest memories were the times when they spent their summers at Holiday House and almost a year living there and being lovingly raised by their grandmother, Winnie. Ethan's intended bride, Brooke, ended their engagement a month before they were to be married a year earlier because she knew that Ethan didn't love her the way she loved him. Lucy too has resisted falling in love with José, her lifelong friend and Ethan's second-in-command, and their friendship practically ends when he visits her overseas and professes his love for her. She suggests they sleep together, and he refuses, wanting sex between them to be more than a roll in the hay, but instead about love and a lifelong commitment, a commitment Lucy won't make. How will it all turn out? I'm not telling.

Suffice it to say that it was impossible not to fall in love with this story, it's characters--young and old, the charming setting, the time of year, and everything from tree trimming, to skiing, to cookie baking, Christmas carols, a gingerbread house contest, and the entire town and inhabitants of Silver Bells, Colorado. As has been the case in every RaeAnne Thayne novel I've read, I wish that I could move there, and I think that after reading this incredibly sweet, sentimental story, you'll feel that way too.

I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions stated are my own.

Another wonderful book from RaeAnne Thayne. Even though I am not a holiday person, this story kept my attention from the first to last pages. Individuals with various past issues have some self realization to do and experience. Their surroundings, friends and family help with their eye-opening awareness of the possibilities in life. A sweet and charming love story with many of the feel goods that make one shed a tear or two.

4 stars / This review will be posted at BookwormishMe.com on 29 September 2020.


If Silver Bells, Colorado were a real place, I’d be packing my bags. Straight out of a Hallmark movie, this town exudes warmth, love, character and charm. In fact, it is so perfect, it could only come out of a Hallmark movie, and honestly, that’s not such a bad thing.

Abby and her son Christopher are pressed into action when Abby’s best friend Lucy’s grandmother takes a nasty fall. Abby lost her husband unexpectedly just a couple years ago, and she’s in-between jobs right now. Plus Lucy is rather persuasive. Who could resist spending the holidays in a place called Silver Bells in a house called Holiday House? Apparently not Abby.

Lucy’s brother Ethan has other plans for their grandmother, namely putting her in assisted living or some other situation. He thinks the time has come for grandmother Winnie to give up the huge mansion known as Holiday House. Winnie, though, is strong minded and determined to stay in her home. She has Lucy on her side.

Abby isn’t sure she can handle Ethan, and not knowing Winnie, she thinks maybe Ethan is right. Until she meets Ethan and Winnie. Now Abby wants to fight to keep Winnie in her historic home, and fight the feelings she has for Ethan.

Normally, I would be immersing myself in these novels in December while sipping a peppermint mocha. Nothing better than fluffy, happy books with fluffy, happy endings for the holiday season. Read this one and you’ll fall in love with Silver Bells and all its residents too!

Christmas at Holiday House was such a heartwarming story. It made me laugh, it made me tear up, and when it was over, I was sad for it to be done. I loved all the characters and I really loved this new town the author has created. RaeAnne Thayne did a wonderful job telling a truly delightful holiday story. I can only hope she decides to return to Silver Bells in the future.

Christmas at Holiday House is all that you'd expect from a Christmas story, and more! Small town, Christmassy-setting with lots of snow? Check! Quirky and endearing characters? Check! Visions of lights and Christmas trees and snowmen? Check! Christmas cookies and gingerbread houses? Check! What I loved most about this particular book, and the fact that we get TWO romances, not just one, is that it's not easy for these characters to open their hearts to love. Abby is a young woman, a single mother after the death of her husband, who is still dealing with the remnants of his loss, not sure she will ever love someone as she loved him. Ethan and Lucy have hardened their hearts to the possibility of love after years of turmoil dealing with their parents' disastrous love lives, and have closed off their hearts for fear of being like them. It was wonderful to watch as their hearts become vulnerable, and they must find the courage to take a leap of faith on love and happiness. A perfect book for the holidays.

Abby Powell and her young son travel to Silver Bells, CO from Phoenix, AZ to help the grandmother of a friend. Winifred Lancaster lives in a large house and has fallen, breaking her wrist and sustaining several other serious injuries. Abby is a nurse but had recently given up her job in preparation for a move to Austin TX. Winnie’s granddaughter Lucy is overseas teaching and can’t get back to help her grandmother. Lucy is not aware that her brother has rearranged his schedule to be in the area to take care of Winnie. However, his idea of taking care of her is to have her admitted to a rehab center. Abby and Ethan nearly come to blows over what is best for Winnie but it is Christmas time in Silver Bells. It is a heartwarming Christmas story about family and love.

Christmas at Holiday House by RaeAnne Thayne is another one of her wonderful romances, especially with a Christmas theme. We meet our heroine, Abigail (Abby) Powell at the start, driving to Silver Bells, Colorado with her young son, Christopher. Abby is a nurse and widowed, and plans on moving to Austin, to get a fresh start; as its been two years since she lost her husband, who was killed by a deranged person in the hospital they worked at. But her best friend, Lucy, who is away teaching, asks for her to help to go to Silver Bells, and help her grandmother, who fell and has a broken wrist among other injuries; Abby agrees, since they have time before moving on to Austin. Winnie (the grandmother), welcomes Abby and Christopher to her home, the Holiday House, and is happy to have someone to help her, as well as the wonderful company.

Ethan Lancaster, our hero, has a successful business running hotels, and is not thrilled to have Abby come stay with his grandmother, since he feels she should be in assistant living. Abby senses his unhappiness and they both get off on the wrong foot, though Ethan knows he can’t win this battle with Winnie. In a short time, Ethan begins to loosen up and slowly a friendship begins, especially with him (and everyone else) adoring sweet wonderful Christopher. Ethan has his own issues about his inability to find love, due to his ex-fiancée telling him he had no heart.

Besides watching over Winnie, Abby finds herself helping with Winnie’s plans to help decorate Holiday House, for a fundraiser, and learning how to cook with Winnie’s help. I loved this part where Abby, Winnie, Christopher and Ethan do the decorating in each of the magical rooms in Holiday House, and learning about the history of the mansion, which for the first time will be opened to the public for the fundraiser. This was a lot of fun, which also brings Ethan and Abby closer to discovering they are falling for each other. There is another romance in this story, focusing on Lucy (Ethan’s sister and Abby’s best friend), who also has issues about relationships, as she loves Jose (Ethan’s right hand), whom she has always considered him to be her close friend, but things fall apart when Jose wants a permanent relationship. Lucy doesn’t understand why they can’t continue to be friends, but with benefits, as she can’t get past her parents’ volatile relationship.

What follows is a fun, wonderful holiday themed story, with wonderful characters you can’t help but fall in love with them. Thayne does a great job giving us two great couples in Abby/Ethan, Lucy/Jose, the adorable children in Christopher and Rod, Winnie, and all the wonderful friends who help them.

Christmas at Holiday House was so very well written by RaeAnne Thayne, with so many touching and heartwarming moments, including humor, love, and just pure fun. If you like sweet romances, great couple, a wonderful small town, holiday themed, look no further than Christmas at Holiday House.

What an amazing book. I fell in love right from the beginning. Love this story. Raeanne Thayne is a wonderful author

This is a sweet romance about a widow trying to make a new life for herself and her adorable five-year old son. She decides to travel to a small town to help out her friend’s elederly aunt during the holidays while she’s recovering from a fall. There she finds a lovely setting of people who come together in friendship to help out their friend and others. And she finds her friend’s handsome brother, Ethan. He’s very hesitant to start a new romance because of the terrible example that his parents gave him of what marriage looks like. He and his sister must learn that they don’t have to repeat their parents’ mistakes and that both can find true love.

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.

Raeanne Thayne has given us a lovely Holiday heartwarming story. A story of broken people trying to find where they belong and if love is right for them. Nicely written and gives you the Holiday feeling. Definitely recommend reading this book.