The Christmas Dilemma

Sarah Vance-Tompkins

Nov 2023 · Tule Publishing

About this ebook

Skipping Christmas is easy. But it’s impossible to deny your heart…

Eli Adair is the first call whenever his family and friends need a hand. But this Christmas, he has no obligations, so he’s taking a break from the stress of big family celebrations. No presents under the tree. No stockings by the fireplace. No twinkling lights.

All he wants is to be home alone at Hillcrest House.

Travel nurse Audrey Elliott is returning to Christmas Tree Cove hoping for a big holiday celebration like the ones on her grandparents’ farm—all she has left of happier times before her mom’s condition lost those memories. Candy canes. Gingerbread houses. Holiday carols.

All Audrey wants is a place to call home for Christmas.

When a high school friend assures her there’s plenty of room at Hillcrest House, it seems like all her Christmas dreams are coming true until she discovers she’ll be living with Eli, the boy she’s never forgotten. Or the first kiss they shared.

Eli and Audrey are about to discover whether December is about reliving traditions—or making new ones.

Ratings and reviews

Christmas Tree Cove is a magical place at Christmas and Audrey is excited to be able to return to her childhood home at Christmas for her traveling nurse job. Her first (and best) kiss happened there with Eli. Wonders of wonders, she is invited to stay in Eli’s family home by his sister, an old friend of Audrey. Eli now lives in the home and feelings grow between them but they both think the other is dating someone. A super cute book of love growing in a season of love. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The Christmas Dilemma is book 3 in the Adair Family series by Sarah Vance-Tompkins, a new to me author. When dealing with the past at Christmas time for Eli it’s no celebration then Audrey comes back to town as this is the place of happy Christmas memories and seeing the one who got away… Can these two find a way to mend the past, find/make new traditions and have the HEA they deserve….only time will tell. I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy (ARC) of this book from Tule Publishing.

Eli is against celebrating Christmas this year however Audrey might change his mind. Together they had a connection as teenagers, can they rekindle a romance that never started or has it already fizzled out. A magical place brought two people together. Will the magic still be there. I received an ARC and this is my honest review.