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    Mistletoe Secret
    Mistletoe Secret
    Mistletoe Secret
    Audiobook5 hours

    Mistletoe Secret

    Written by Richard Paul Evans

    Narrated by Richard Paul Evans and Madeleine Maby

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author and master of the holiday novel Richard Paul Evans presents the moving story of two people who brave loneliness and loss to find love.

    Dear Universe,
    Is anyone out there?

    Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal feelings, especially her overwhelming loneliness. She goes from day to day showing a brave face to the world while inside she longs to know how it would feel if one person cared about her.

    Alex Bartlett cares. He’s reading her posts in Daytona Beach, Florida. Nursing his own broken heart and trust issues, he finds himself falling for this sensitive, vulnerable woman whose feelings mirror his own. Following a trail of clues LBH has inadvertently revealed, he discovers that she lives in the small town of Midway, Utah. He makes his way there just after Thanksgiving, determined to find LBH. Maybe she’s a Lisa, Lori, or a Luanne. Instead, he finds a woman named Aria, a waitress at the Mistletoe Diner, who encourages Alex in his search while serving his pie along with some much-needed sympathy and companionship.

    Alex finally finds his LBH, a woman who is as beautiful and kind as he imagined she would be. How can he tell her that he knows her secret? What’s holding him back? Could it be his feelings for Aria?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781508221906
    Mistletoe Secret
    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
      Great story! I loved the humor, mystery, intrigue
      and romance.
    • 4/5
      One of my, possibly my favorite of, RPE’s Christmas books. Why? Because it doesn’t completely follow the formula. Sure, it’s close, but it’s different enough. I like the guy as much as the female lead in the story - which is good, and it’s written from the guys perspective not the female’s. As always, eloquent writing.
    • 5/5
      Such a great story of love and hope. A must read for the holidays
    • 4/5
      I would honestly say 4.5 stars. There were a few twists on the story I enjoyed and some well-placed humor. Overall, it was a very sweet story.


      I'll post a full review on my blog in a few days.
    • 3/5
      This OK; it's reminiscent of a Hallmark TV movie. Alex Bartlett lives in Florida and is recently divorced from Jill, who ran away with a boyfriend and the lion's share of their savings by the way. Months later, Alex is encouraged by his buddies to get over it and start looking for someone new. He tries dating services, surfs the web, then trips across a blogger, identified only as LBH. LBH's soulful writings strike a chord with Alex and he looks forward eagerly to the next message. He shares LBH's writings with the reader. LBH is lonely; she goes on and on and on and on (get it?) about how lonely she is. Now this appeals to Alex, he feels her pain as I am sure a lot of Evans readers will. I didn't; I was secretly urgently him to run away, find someone else, this one is a loser, a whiner, someone who enjoys wallowing in agony - but he didn't listen to me. After several more blogs it becomes evident where she lives via some fairly obvious clues. So Alex goes off to find her. After all how many LBH's can there be in a town in Utah near Salt Lake? A reasonable number it turns out; Alex begins to knock on doors. During his hunt, Alex discovers woman number 2, and starts seeing her in the midst of his hunt. He develops some feelings for number 2, and then there is The Blowup. I don't usually read romances. I'm more into crime fiction and spy novels, also bios and history. So the romances were to break up the pattern of my reading habits, and hopefully come back to my favorites somewhat recharged. Anyway, I found it interesting that The Blowup was a major scene in both books, that The Blowup felt contrived in both, got resolved rather quickly and painlessly (not in my life experience) and Happy Ending was right around the corner. "Mistletoe Secret" was OK not as good as I had hoped and expected, but mission accomplished. I won't read this author nor the author of the other one again, but I'll probably read some others. I discovered Rainbow Rowell's "Eleanor and Park" this way and maybe I'll find another such gem.