The Christmas Key Book Review

I picked up this book at the library because it had a great cover and I have never read the author or the series before but I was interested.  The Christmas Key: A Twilight, Texas Novel by Lori Wilde was part of a series and this showed as the new release so I figured that I would get to read some new books if I liked this Christmas story.

There’s a legend in Twilight, Texas. If you sleep with a kismet cookie under your pillow on Christmas Eve, you will dream of your one true love. She saw him in her dreams . . .It’s impossible! Naomi Luther was standing face-to-face with the man she’d dreamed about over a year ago. Was it the magic of kismet Christmas cookies that brought him to her? Or is there an even greater force at work? All Naomi knows is she is falling, hard and fast, for the one man all good sense says she should not have.

She was his buddy’s sister . . .Rebellious Mark Shepherd found order in the Marines but chaos on the battlefield. In a mission gone wrong, Mark is injured and one of his fellow soldiers loses his life. Haunted by guilt, he arrives in Twilight to keep a solemn promise. But when the Luthers mistake him for their handyman, he’s swept up in playing Santa to his buddy’s orphan son . . . and falling hard for Naomi’s irresistible bright spirit and sweet, sexy smile. But what will happen when she learns the truth?

I picked this book up and had trouble putting it down.  Naomi Luther is the daughter of a pastor and the sister of a solider.  Naomi makes cookies for the local charity fundraiser, works on every volunteer opportunity and is raising her brothers child after he died in battle.  She is an amazing women who puts all others ahead of herself to make sure that they have the best life that they can.  She works hard to be a member of her small community of Twilight and be the best for everyone else.  Mark Shepherd comes into the small town because he was sent by her brother to deliver a Christmas key but he is quickly assigned as the handyman of the church.  Mark gets involved in the family and the town and ends up being Santa for all the kids of this small town.  Naomi grows close to Mark before learning the truth of why he is really there and who he really is.  Find out what happens if she finds out the truth.  It was a great story and a quick read.  I hope that you check it out and like it as much as I did!!  I will be looking for more in this series for sure!