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    The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel
    The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel
    The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel

    Written by Richard Paul Evans

    Narrated by Madeleine Maby

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    The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s Mistletoe Collection.

    At thirty-two, Kimberly Rossi—a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership—has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce, and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The Mistletoe Retreat, a nine-day writing retreat in Burlington, Vermont. Deep inside Kimberly knows she’s at a junction in her life and it’s time to either fulfill her dream or let it go. The other reason she decides to attend the conference is because famed romance writer, H.T. Cowell, once the best selling romance writer in America, and the author whose books instilled in her the desire to be a writer, will be speaking in public for the first time in more than a decade.

    In one of her breakout sessions Kimberly meets another aspiring writer, and one of the few men at the conference, Zeke, an intelligent man with a wry wit who seems as interested in Kimberly as he is in the retreat. As Kimberly begins to open up to him about her stories and dreams, she inadvertently reveals her own troubled past. As Zeke helps her to discover why her books fail to live up to their potential she begins to wonder if he’s really talking more about her life than her literature. But as she grows closer to him, she realizes that Zeke has his own darkness, a past he’s unwilling to talk about.

    The Mistletoe Inn reveals that, like literature, relationships must be lived with passion and vulnerability to succeed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9781442392656
    Author

    Richard Paul Evans

    Richard Paul Evans is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty novels. There are currently more than thirty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place Storytelling World Awards, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, and five Religion Communicators Council’s Wilbur Awards. Seven of Richard’s books have been produced as television movies. His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and acclaimed film director, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride), premiered in 2022. In 2011 Richard began writing Michael Vey, a #1 New York Times bestselling young adult series which has won more than a dozen awards. Richard is the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children’s shelters and providing services and resources for abused, neglected, or homeless children and young adults. To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity. For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. Richard lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children and two grandchildren. You can learn more about Richard on his website RichardPaulEvans.com.

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    • 5/5
      This was a lovely story of romance and love. Fun to read and listen to. Great character development and growth.
    • 5/5
      By one of my favorite authors and he did not disappoint. Kind of interesting that it was set in a writers conference, and they were giving tips about writing, and I could see his tips in the book were used in his own writing. On to the next Christmas story!
    • 5/5
      A sweet Christmas romance
      Well narrated too, lovely story
      Enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      I really liked this one. It was a bit predictable, but a nice, sweet story for Christmas.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful book. What I especially liked was how this was not a typical romance novel... The characters built throughout the story. Kimberly, Samantha, Zeek and the father people and situations. Really enjoyed the story and events :-)
    • 5/5
      Excellent. Warmed my heart. Loved the characters. A real life story that had me smiling as though it was me in the story.
    • 5/5
      This was from the heart! Perfecto! Great read! Read it!
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed the book. I would have liked a stronger focus on God, but overall the story was well written and I look forward to reading more from this author.
    • 5/5
      This is the 5th book by Richard Paul Evans that I've read/listened to. I'm hooked. He has a lot of insight into every day and big life struggles. Always great messages through out the stories. Very realistic characters. This is a great book to read if you ever want to be a fiction writer. I do not want to write but I have quite a few friends that do. The advice woven into the story would surely be helpful.
    • 5/5
      I listened to this book straight through while cleaning my house. It had enough depth to make it important and enough light to make me feel good after listening. I also appreciated that the prologue hit on all the storylines you’d hope to hear the conclusion to. Looking for more books by this author now.
    • 2/5
      Fairly predictable. I was born and raised in Henderson NV and he wrote so many fallacies about it, it drove me crazy! Also I thought it was a lame cop out that the main character was writing his previous book, The Mistletoe Promise. I'm also kind of tired of the girl ending up with rich men who take them on day vacations to NY. Why not write about a simple guy who wins the girl.