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His Holiday Heart (The McKaslin Clan: Series 3, Book 8) ( Love Inspired #467)

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Spencer. wow, he's tough but a true teddy bear.
adandoned by his mother Spencer became overprotective of his family and
guarding his heart from his secret crush almost lost all happiness until...he almost lost her forever.

great book. love the series

Jillian Hart is so amazing....I loved this book!!!!!
It was so sweet and inspiring! I couldn't put it down!

This has been a ongoing series that truly works itself through from a century ago and up until present day. Keeping the characters in this Montana area has a reader wanting to visit such a place because the author Jillian Hart describes it so well.

This is the McKaslin Clan book I've been waiting for! The author has dangled the stories of each sister before me while holding their lone brother's aloft. Each time I caught a glimpse of surly Spencer only whet my appetite for his story. And then, the day came when I rec'd His Holiday Heart in my eharlequin box and I panicked. Surely, Ms Hart had an extraordinary tale awaiting me after all the build-up...right?...right?

YES! His Holiday Heart is an excellent book and worthy of a spot on my 2008 Top Ten List. I became intrigued on page 1 when one of Spence's sisters hinted she knew his secret and he became paralyzed at the thought.

Ms Hart has created a wonderfully refreshing hero in this book. Spence has always been responsible for his sisters and is happy they are happily married but after he saw his mother take his youngest sister and walk away from the rest of the family, he doesn't trust women. Marriage can be a venerable institution - it just isn't for him. Even though his father remarried and Spence loves his step-mom and step-sisters, he'd rather live his life alone than take a chance.

But, If he was going to pursue a woman, she'd have to be just like Lucy Chapin who is Spence's ideal of the perfect woman. He's put her on a pedestal and adores her from afar. It's just that whenever Lucy comes near, Spence freezes up, gets tongue-tied and basically loses his mind. His thoughts just fly off somewhere and he acts like a blithering idiot. To combat this, he steels his heart, refuses to look at her, and speaks brusquely whenever she's near.

Author Lucy Chapin has known Spence for a long time. She believes him to be an upstanding man of integrity who is respectful to women regardless of how his biological mother treated him. He is an influential man in the community who takes his responsibilities seriously and adores his nieces and nephews. He's the kind of man she wants for a life mate. She just doesn't understand why Spence doesn't like her.

This was a highly entertaining book for me. It really shows that you never know what someone is actually thinking until you get to know them better.

I guess, as a Christian, I've never seen one person as sour as the main character. He works in a Christian bookstore, goes to church, has an all Christian family, fellowships, and is the most sour person you've ever known. Obviously he can only see his extreme sadness and disappointment in his mother leaving them when he was young, and cannot see all the love and relational success stories around him with his sisters and his father knowing true love. Any why the girl continues her interest in him is beyond reason, because he's so mean to her and says such hateful things. I guess this is just beyond my realm of experience that it just didn't make sense. It's interesting, I'll give you that, and it's sweet, when it isn't mean, and it ends very well. I've read Jillian Hart books before, and they were good.

The grouchiest guy in the world has a crush on the nicest lady in the world, and his family all wants him to settle down. Wow. What a line up. This book did not do it for me at all, I thought Lucy should run away screaming and the male protagonist, Spencer, should grow up and stop acting like a total ass. This book is a waste of print.