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๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐๐ง
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ: ๐๐ซ๐๐ฒ๐๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐
๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐: ๐๐.๐.๐๐๐๐
Thank you @tlcbooktours @graydonhousebooks and @viola_shipman for a spot on tour and a gifted book.ย
Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the companyโs hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear sheโll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegnerโsโtheir iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas storeโto a massive, soulless corporation. Itโs the kind of deal cool corporate Henri has built her career on.
Home for the holidays has typically meant a perfunctory twenty-four-hour visit for Henri, then back to Detroit as fast as her car will drive her. So turning up at the Wegnerโs offices in early December raises some eyebrows: from her delighted, if puzzled, parents to her suspicious brother and curious childhood friends. But as Henri fields impatient texts from her boss while reconnecting with the magic of the store and warmth of her hometown; what sounded great in the boardroom, begins to lose its luster in real life. Sheโs running out of time to pull the trigger on what could be the greatest success of her careerโฆor the most awkward family holiday of her life.
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Viola Shipman beautifully captured small-town life, and I loved the atmosphere of this touristy Christmas town. This is such a heartwarming story about multiple generations of women. With a touch of magic, they pursue love, wishes, and dreams.
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