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His holiday matchmaker

by Kat Brookes

Published 2016220 pagesISBN 978-0-3738-1947-8

"Nathan Cooper's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas -- a new mommy. Caring for six-year-old Katie is the widowed builder's priority, and he doesn't want to risk more heartache for either of them. Yet when interior designer Alyssa McCall comes to town on a temporary assignment, both he and Katie are charmed. Working together to finish the new recreation center, Alyssa and Nathan form a connection, though Alyssa worries that she can't be the mother Katie deserves. But with one little girl -- and her handsome daddy -- determined to prove her wrong, this could be a Christmas to remember."--Back cover.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Romance

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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Heightened4.2/5

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Before you choose

A quick reading snapshot

Edition facts and catalog signals to help you decide whether this book fits what you want to read next.

Reading lengthA shorter read220 pages in this edition
Publication eraContemporaryFirst published or edition dated 2016
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Romance
ISBN-13
978-0-3738-1947-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL26476814M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.

Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.