One of the ever-popular holiday tropes is the small-town bakery (or restaurant or b and b) and the daughter who doesn’t want to come back to the place. She must, not only to save the bakery but also to find her happily ever after. This Christmas novel doubles the risk, because the heroines are twins. The novel begins twelve days before Christmas, counting down with alternate chapters for each of the twins. Charlie, building a career on a television bake show, and Cass, keeping the home bakery running, trade places after Charlie falls. The resulting concussion affects her sense of smell and taste, so she persuades her sister to cover for ten days. Not as easy as it sounds, for either young woman. BTW, Maggie Knox is a pen name of two authors, Karma Brown and Marissa Stapley. This is their first collaboration; each has published under her own name.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
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