Izzy Valentine's story is finally here and it was well worth the wait! I have no idea what to say about this book! It's funny, swoony, Christmasy, it has cute kids, a crazy interfering mom, and wonderful characters.all the things!! It's got tropes-single dad, second chance romance, and fake relationship.but deep down I wonder if it was ever really fake with Izzy and Patrick? We met Izzy in The Valentine Inn but now we get to see other sides to this spunky woman who says all the snarky things a lot of us would love to say.

USA Today best-selling author Jennifer Peel presents a swoony, laugh-out-loud story full of holiday magic and charm. Maybe, just maybe, I was wrong about soul mates? Either way, I’m hanging up more mistletoe. Perhaps in all the chaos, there is room for my own Christmas dreams to come true. But somehow the pretend feels all too real.

Now we find ourselves having to act as if we are the jolliest couple around, making the season bright. By hero, I mean pretending it’s our wedding. At least that’s his plan until he finds himself playing hero trying to help me save my sister’s secret Christmas Eve wedding. So much so, Patrick would just as soon skip Christmas. Patrick Abbott isn’t alone-he comes with two beautiful kids and the memory of his dead wife, who seems to haunt all their lives. The kind of kiss that whispered to my soul and told me things I wasn’t ready to hear. The man who 20 years ago administered the kiss of all kisses.

So, what if she did find her own unlikely happily ever after here with one of the most famous men alive? That doesn’t mean I’m meant for such a destiny.īut what happens when the implausible happens? When a man I thought I would never see again walks into my inn. My sister, of course, would tell me I’m dead wrong and that the very inn we own calls to such lovers. But soul mates? It seems highly implausible there is that one person, your person, meant only for you. I even own an inn with my sister where each room is named after our favorite romantic couples. With a name like Isabelle Valentine, one would think I was destined to find true love and believe in the ridiculous notion of soul mates.

The Sidelined Wife by Jennifer Peel