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Why
we chose this book
A light, heartwarming and funny tale of romance that's perfect
for the holidays...oh, and did I mention the fruitcake?! ~Beth
From Publisher's Weekly
A
smalltown Washington reporter learns to love fruitcake in Macomber's
chick-lit take on A Christmas Carol. Emma Collins ("kinda cute in
an uptight sort of way") hopes that writing obituaries and selling
ads for the Puyallup Examiner will lead to a journalism career. Instead,
her first plum assignment—interviewing three finalists in a national
fruitcake recipe contest—lands her in the cockpit of devil-may-care
pilot Oliver Hamilton, whose good looks and charm remind her of her
shiftless father. Despite Emma's fear of flying, Oliver takes her to
Yakima, Colville and the San Juan islands to meet three women who all
figure that when life gives you lemons (or anything else), make
fruitcake. Emma tastes the thrice-married barmaid's liquor-laden
concoction, the tender-hearted widow's chocoholic dream and the
struggling young mother's no-bake graham-cracker confection. While she
tries to capture in print lessons learned from the three cooks, Oliver's
plane is grounded by a snowstorm, Emma and Oliver kiss, she gets thrown
out of her apartment trying to rescue a stray dog, he falls in the water
trying to rescue her and she decides Christmas isn't as bad as she
thought. It all adds up to another tale of romance in the lives of
ordinary people, with a message that life is like a fruitcake: full of
unexpected delights.
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From The Publisher
Emma
Collins has always believed that the world is divided into two kinds of
people: those who love fruitcake and those who don't. She's firmly in
the second category, so it's ironic that her major assignment for the
Puyallup, Washington, Examiner is a series of articles about . . .
fruitcake. At least it's a step up from writing obituaries.
Her
task is to interview the finalists in a fruitcake recipe contest, and that
means traveling around the state. Actually . . . flying around the state.
Local pilot Oliver Hamilton, who's starting an airfreight business, has
agreed to take her wherever she needs to go, in exchange for free
advertising. Unfortunately Emma hates small planes -- almost as much as
she hates fruitcake.
But
in the weeks leading up to Christmas, Emma falls for Oliver (who's not
quite the Scrooge he sometimes seems) and his mutt, Oscar (who's allergic
to her perfume, which makes him sneeze repeatedly). And she meets three
wise women who know a lot about fruitcake -- and even more about life.
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