A NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS - Nancy Thayer
Ballantine
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-54535-0
October 2013
Women's Fiction

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts - Present Day

On Nantucket Island lives a small dog named Snix.  Hungry and wandering, he's looking for his lost family, but until he finds them, he just searches for food and shelter, ducking into corners away from people who consider him simply a scruffy, stray dog...

Also living on Nantucket Island is the widowed Nicole, who recently married Sebastian Somerset.  A retired nurse, Nicole has come to love living on the island with her new husband, a divorced and retired attorney who brings a past to their marriage in the form of a beautiful, controlling ex-wife, and an equally calculating and spoiled grown-up daughter.  As the holiday season draws closer, Sebastian's ex-wife, Katya, decides to spend Christmas with her lover, thus leaving their daughter, Kennedy, with no option but to spend Christmas week in Nantucket with Sebastian his new wife.

And so, Kennedy and her husband, James, arrive in Nantucket with their four-year-old son, Maddox.  Kennedy is heavily pregnant, so she won't be much help around the house for the week they are staying, but Nicole is on top of the situation and prepared for everything, even Kennedy's willful manipulations and sabotage.

A NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS is a wonderfully inspiring story of Christmas and the warmth of the season.  This is Nicole's very first Christmas with Sebastian, and she's more than determined to keep Kennedy from ruining their holiday.  Even so, her quiet patience is put to the test when surprise visitors invite themselves to her new home.  And, in the background, Snix is still lost and alone, looking for a home and someone who cares.

A NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS is a truly warm and loving novella, a beautiful book for the keeper shelf!

Diana Risso