Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
A wonderful, tender love story!
Christmas Homecoming By L.A. Witt
Genre: Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Holiday, Christmas
Released: December 2, 2018
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: The Christmas Angel, Book 4
Length: 24,000 words approx..
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
August 1939. Roger Miller and Jack O’Brien have been close since childhood. By the time they realize there’s more between them than friendship, Jack is leaving their sleepy Iowa town for college. But they console themselves knowing he’ll be home for Christmas. Right?
It is Christmas before they see each other again, but that Christmas comes six years and a world war later. Aged, beaten, and shaken by combat, they’re not the boys they were back then, but their feelings for each other are stronger than ever.
Neither know the words to say everything they’ve carried since that peacetime summer kiss, though. Even as they stand in the same room, there’s a thousand miles between them.
But maybe that’s some distance the little angel in Roger’s rucksack can cross.
This 24,000 word novella is part of the multi-author Christmas Angel series, and can be read as a standalone.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A wonderful, tender love story!
I’m a big fan of L.A. Witt’s writing so I wasn’t surprised at all by how much I loved Christmas Homecoming, book 4 of The Christmas Angel series of books that can each be read as standalone stories.
Jack and Roger were best friends growing up. Just before Jack leaves for college they share a kiss, but nothing more and they don’t admit their feelings to each other. The war intervenes and they don’t see each other for 6 long years.
This story had so much feeling it just poured off of the pages as I read it. I love a well written novella length story and this one is just perfect. There is a wonderful HEA and a perfect epilogue. I can’t say enough good things about this book and how ultimately heartwarming it was for me.
I want to hug whoever it was that came up with the idea of this series of standalone stories!
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O Factor: Scorcher
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The Christmas Angel Series
In 1750, a master woodcarver poured all his unrequited love, passion, and longing into his masterpiece—a gorgeous Christmas angel for his beloved’s tree. When the man he loved tossed the angel away without a second thought, a miracle happened. The angel was found by another who brought the woodcarver True Love.
Since then, the angel has been passed down, sold, lost and found, but its magic remains. Read the romances inspired by (and perhaps nudged along by) the Christmas angel through the years. Whether it’s 1700s England (Eli Easton’s Christmas Angel), the 1880’s New York (Kim Fielding’s Summerfield’s Angel), the turn-of-the-century (Jordan L. Hawk’s Magician’s Angel), World War II (L.A. Witt’s Christmas Homecoming), Vietnam-era (N.R. Walker’s Soldier’s Wish), the 1990’s (Anyta Sunday’s Shrewd Angel), or 2018 (RJ Scott’s Christmas Prince), the Christmas angel has a way of landing on the trees of lonely men who need its blessing for a very Merry Christmas and forever HEA.
Christmas Angel – Eli Easton – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
Summerfield’s Angel – Kim Fielding – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
The Magician’s Angel – Jordan L. Hawk – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
Christmas Homecoming – L.A. Witt – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
A Soldier’s Wish – N.R. Walker – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
Shrewd Angel – Anyta Sunday – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
Christmas Prince – RJ Scott – Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK
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L.A. Witt is an abnormal M/M romance writer who has finally been released from the purgatorial corn maze of Omaha, Nebraska, and now spends her time on the southwestern coast of Spain. In between wondering how she didn’t lose her mind in Omaha, she explores the country with her husband, several clairvoyant hamsters, and an ever-growing herd of rabid plot bunnies. She also has substantially more time on her hands these days, as she has recruited a small army of mercenaries to search South America for her nemesis, romance author Lauren Gallagher, but don’t tell Lauren. And definitely don’t tell Lori A. Witt or Ann Gallagher. Neither of those twits can keep their mouths shut…
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