The Christmas Secret Book Review

I got this book off the shelf at the library. I was out of books to read at home so I was looking around for some authors that I knew I figured that I would bring home a few and see if I read any of them before.  The Christmas Secret: Will an 1880 Christmas Eve Wedding Be Cancelled by Revelations in an Old Diary? by Wanda E. Brunstetter was a great title to get me to stick it in my library bag.  I love Christmas stories and this short read was a perfect book to pick up after the last longer book that I read before. 

A Family Secret May Destroy a Couple’s Hope for Marriage

Beloved, bestselling author of Amish fiction, Wanda E. Brunstetter tells a heartrending story from 1880 Pennsylvania.  Elizabeth Canning discovers an awful secret in her deceased mother’s diary. Believing her chances for a happy marriage are spoiled, she leaves her fiancé a letter and flees town thinking all hope of a marriage to David is lost. Praying that distance will heal her broken heart, she takes refuge in her grandparents’ Pennsylvania home.

Anticipating a Christmas Eve wedding with Elizabeth, David Stinner is confused by her letter and desperate to find her. Can David root out the truth about the past and bring back his bride? Or is the truth destined to bring an ultimate end to their romance?

I thought that this was a great story with the pictures of the evergreen at the bottom of the pages, you were immediately brought into the season.  Very quickly you were pulled into the life of Elizabeth Canning who is excited in planning her wedding and the rest of her life with the man she loves, David.  Everything is ruined when she is cleaning the old cabin her family used to live in when she finds her aunts diary.  In the diary, it tells how Elizabeth's mother had a baby by another man.  The father that was mentioned was the same father of the man that Elizabeth was going to marry.  She realizes that she has to call off the wedding and run away.  She almost married her half brother!!  She trusts her best friend with the truth and goes to stay with family. After a little while there, she decides to go stay in a empty cabin of another family member just to get herself farther away.  David is busy trying to find out what is wrong and then prove that it isn't true.  You need to get the book to find out all of the things that happen along the way but it is a hard book to put down because you want to find out what is going to happen next.  I hope that you check it out for yourself.