This is a charming Christmas story of Celeste, a small town children’s librarian and Flynn who return to this town with his child hoping for healing for both of them. There was a past history with both of them.

The characters and storyline were well written. Love how both Celeste and Flynn discover each other when they finally met each other again after all these years. It is a delightful holiday read for me with heartwarming worthy moments

A Cold Creek Christmas Story by RaeAnne Thayne

RaeAnne Thayne never ceases to deliver a heartwarming, feel-good Christmas romance! I don't know how she continues to do it, but her small town romances are always filled with wonderful characters you wish you could stay in touch with forever. I liked Celeste a lot. She's the shy bookwork type, which are two things you can use to describe me! She was extremely relatable. Flynn is such a wonderful dad (I have a soft spot for really good dads), and he's a carpenter so I can only imagine how muscular and strong he is. My kind of guy. Flynn and Celeste are a wonderful couple, each doing fine on their own but even better together. Flynn's daughter's (Olivia) journey through grief and healing and processing trauma is treated with sensitivity and reverence. Cole Creek is such a charming town, and I'd love to visit there myself! Celeste's family and the ranch and the holiday festivities made me smile and float through the pages. Highly recommended!

A book in the middle of a series, but this is one of those series where you can dip in and out and each book centers around a different character in the same town. The main characters in this book are Celeste who is from a family that has lived in Pine Gulch for a long time and there is some drama in her past, but she is trying to live a life after the past. Flynn Delaney has come back to this small town where he summered as a kid to clean up his grandmother's home and he always has positive memories from this town and with a child who has just survived a tragedy this small town may have some healing properties for them.

I loved the main characters in this book. An author/librarian and a father who is trying to put his daughter first where just great to read about. Of course as a reader, a book about an author is always a good read. I loved reading about how her books came about and then the struggle to decide the future for her books, loved it!

Even though I was inserting myself far into the series, I didn't feel clueless. RaeAnne Thayne gives you enough of the back story for each character in an easy way so you can just get into their story and know enough about them to enjoy it.

As I say often romance books are typically predictable and before you even open the book you will know how it ends, but as always the ending isn't the reason for the read, its the journey of how they get there!

After reading this one, I am not sure I would read this whole series, like I do with RaeAnne Thayne, but this could be a series where if I am drawn to the main characters I would read it then.

I was so delighted when I found this book on my kindle while searching for something good to read and equally disappointed that I have not read it yet. Reading Thayne book now feels like coming home to me. It’s always filled with magic and warm fuzziness that stays with me long after I am done with the book and A Cold Creek Christmas Story was no exception.

The book follows Celeste, who lives in the comfort of Pine Gulch Idaho, with a very sad past, who writes children’s books for a living. Her recent hit is about a reindeer named Sparkle that seemed to have touched both children and parents alike across the country like a sweeping storm. She had a major crush on Flynn, a boy who would come to Pine Gulch every summer to visit his grandmother. The boy has grown up and is back in town in order to clean out his grandmother’s place after her passing, so he could put it up on the market. Flynn has a daughter, who doesn’t speak after she watched her celebrity mother get shot by her mother’s boyfriend in front of her and almost dying herself. Flynn is hoping that their stay in Pine Gulch would give his daughter a break from their fast paced life in California and away from the spotlight.

It was a story of perseverance, coping with loss, moving on and finding love in the most unexpected places. I absolutely loved Celeste and how passionate she was about her books and the character she created, so passionate that she had a hard time allowing Sparkle to go big with a movie. I loved Flynn’s sweet daughter and the bond she had formed with Celeste over Sparkle that not only got her to open up, but find a way to deal with her mother’s death and return the magic of Christmas back into her life. Despite me having a few issues with Flynn, I knew it stemmed from the fact that he was just trying to do his best as a father and was only trying to protect his daughter from the world his wife and parents had been sucked into.

Everything about this book besides my annoyance with Flynn at times, was just plain wonderful. The writing, the slow burn romance Thayne is so good at, the characters, the setting – all warm and sweet. I loved it, was unable to put down the book and devoured it over the holidays. It was just a perfect read for me and I am looking forward to more of her wonderful writing.

If you are a fan of slow burn romance that focuses on the development of attachment between the characters and the community, I think you should give this one a try. Thayne always is known for mostly clean romances, but it’s so worth it.