A Knights Bridge Christmas

August 31, 2015
Neggers’s fifth Swift River Valley contemporary (after Echo Lake) features widowed Claire Morgan, the new library director recently arrived in small Knights Bridge, Mass., with her six-year-old son, Owen. Busy ER doctor Logan Farrell visits from Boston to move his feisty grandmother, Daisy, into an assisted living facility. Claire sees Logan as “one of those imperious, successful men who likes to get his way,” but Daisy convinces Claire and Logan to decorate her home together “for one last Christmas.” Daisy’s cryptic request to put a candle in the window mystifies them, but readers will recognize it from the prologue, which reveals how 15-year-old Daisy fell in love with Logan’s grandfather. As mutual affection grows, Claire and Logan help each other navigate challenges: her anxiety for Owen’s safety, his desire to shake his reputation as work obsessed and neglectful of his family. Appealing protagonists, good neighbors, small-town Christmas traditions, and Neggers’s own recipes make for a fine romance.

October 15, 2015

Happily settling into her life as the new Knights Bridge librarian, young widow Clare Morgan is looking forward to celebrating the holidays with her six-year-old son. When Logan Farrell, a high-powered Boston ER doctor and son of one of the residents of the local senior center, asks for her help decorating his mother's old house for Christmas, Clare agrees, not realizing that Logan's matchmaking mother has ulterior motives. An energetic youngster keeps the action lively, familiar characters put in cameo appearances, and an old story and a special candle for Christmas Eve add a touching luster to this memorable romance. VERDICT Rich with New England small-town charm, this latest addition to Neggers's popular series tugs at the heartstrings. Neggers (Echo Lake) lives in Vermont.

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