On the First Day of Christm

Just when I think Ms. Holbrook's writing can't be more amusing and/or touching, she comes through with another book, better than the one before. This is a delightful romance that doesn't let the reader lose sight of the fact that it's also a Christmas story.

A young woman is placed into a lord's household as his temporary ward. Her tendency to pick up stray people and animals totally upsets his life and he feels drawn to her compassionate ways. Again Cindy Holbrook comes up with a nice set of characters and lots of jokes, but somehow this book didn't draw me in like most of her previous books (My all time favourite book - "A Daring Deception" by the same author - makes me both cry and laugh aloud everytime I read it).