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Merry Christmas! All the best to you and yours.

Today is great day to cherish all those we hold dear, and maybe escape from some of the hassle with a short novel if you can make the time. (I know how quickly you read, romance readers!)

Today, it just seems fitting to point you in the direction of Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired novel, Hope in a Handbag by Annie Jones.

It begins: “My name is Finola Barrett and I’m a head-in-the-clouds, miracles-still-happen, Christmas-has-NOT-gotten-too-commercial-if-you-have-the-spirit-in-your-heart believer. I believe in God and try to put my personal faith into action everyday. I believe that people who set goals and work toward them can still realize their dreams. This is my story.”

And if that isn’t enough to get you to open this present, here’s more: “Finola Barrett is also a woman on a mission—to achieve the resolutions she made for herself at New Year’s, almost exactly one year ago: Finding Mr. Right, owning a home, starting her own business and lastly…to find the perfect handbag. She thinks she may be able to complete them in time, if only the man who manages her trust fund—her own personal Scrooge—would approve her business proposal. Will she be able to overcome the banker who stands in her way? Will she ever find Mr. Right? And will she have a great handbag when she does?”

This still will suck you in right from the beginning. And what better way is there to spend Christmas than with love in your heart?

Merry Christmas!