Take Me Home for Christmas Book Review

I thought I had a huge pile of books to read but it turned out that most of them where in the to review pile.  I thought I reviewed all the books and I found another one that I hadn't!!  Oops!  Good thing that I found in in a pile of papers.  Take Me Home for Christmas (Whiskey Creek) by Brenda Novak was the missing review.

Christmas is a time for remembering... Too bad not all memories are pleasant! Everyone in Whiskey Creek remembers Sophia DeBussi as the town's Mean Girl. Especially Ted Dixon, whose love she once scorned. But Sophia has paid the price for her youthful transgressions. The man she "did" marry was rich and powerful but abusive. Then he goes missing--and she soon learns that he died running from an FBI probe of his investment firm. Not only has he left Sophia penniless, he's left her to face all the townspeople he cheated.... Sophia is reduced to looking for any kind of work to pay the bills and support her daughter. With no other options, she accepts a job as housekeeper for Ted, now a successful suspense writer. He can't turn his back on her, but he refuses to get emotionally involved. Will Christmas, the season of love and forgiveness, bring them another chance at happiness?

This book was a little heart wrenching and unexpected.  Sophia has been a character in many of the previous books and this is the book where you get to find out lots more about her.  She starts geting over rehab by spending time with her family on a ship.  She married Skip after high school and turned everyone against her because they felt that she married for money and not for love.  Sophia led a hard life with her husband beating her whenever he didn't like what she did and then she woke up on the boat to find him missing.  She tried to figure out what to do and quickly learned that the FBI closed down his business and froze all their assets.  Sophia was left in another country with no money and no way home and no idea where her husband was.  What is worse is she had to go home to the small town where many invested with her husband and many turned against her and her daughter.  Although different from many of the others in the series, it was a great read that had you on the edge of your seat to find out what is going to happen next.  I hope that you check out this book and the other books in the Whiskey Creek series.  I think that you will enjoy it as much as I have.