If you’re after a short and sweet Christmas story then Above the Mistletoe will suit nicely. Heroine Angelette Beaumont seems to have had everything that could possibly go wrong in her life happen at Christmas and when faced with yet another New York festive season filled with carols, snow, decorations galore and happy people, she quits her job and flies half way across the world to a tiny Australian town where she hopes to weather the Christmas festivities alone with her book. The story stretches the imagination a little early on when she finds herself booked into an Aussie pub that lives and breathes Christmas, but I was happy to go with the flow and see where the story led me. It was worth the wait. Pub owner Mac is a great counterfoil to Angelette and his niece Tilly is just plain gorgeous. I loved watching these two lead Angelette out of her Christmas blues and into a place where she could let accept events from the past and move on.