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I'll be Home for Christmas
I'll Be Home For Christmas by Lenora Worth released on Sep 24, 1998 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
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Lenora Worth
278 books384 followersLenora Worth has written 75 books for three different publishers. She reached a milestone when she received her 50th book pin from Harlequin. Her books have won both regional and national awards and she now has millions of books in print and is a NY Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author. Currently she is writing both Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense and Tule Publishing. Married to her childhood sweetheart, Lenora has two grown children and lives in Florida.
Pen name: Lenora Nazworth
Pen name: Lenora Nazworth
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January 6, 2015
Lenora Worth is a friend but that doesn't mean I can't like her books! :-) I enjoyed this book twice. I read it when it came out originally in 1998 and then picked up a newly reissued larger print version and read it again.
I enjoyed it both times!
Lenora writes a vivid story with interesting and involving characters. I loved the single mom on hard times who takes on a self-sufficient playboy and opens his eyes to the real issues of life, healing and faith.
This book is one of Lenora's early Love Inspired Romances but it's easy to see why she is now a New York Times best-selling author1
I enjoyed it both times!
Lenora writes a vivid story with interesting and involving characters. I loved the single mom on hard times who takes on a self-sufficient playboy and opens his eyes to the real issues of life, healing and faith.
This book is one of Lenora's early Love Inspired Romances but it's easy to see why she is now a New York Times best-selling author1
January 2, 2024
It wasn’t anything amazing, but it wasn’t terrible either.
December 14, 2016
I'll Be Home for Christmas written by Lenora Worth
This book shows us a little about homelessness. thanks Lenora.
Nick was a wealthy man with many material things but his heart was not right with God and he felt empty and sad.
It took a woman who had nothing but her children and a great faith to show him more about happiness...this is a wonderful read especially during this season.
This book shows us a little about homelessness. thanks Lenora.
Nick was a wealthy man with many material things but his heart was not right with God and he felt empty and sad.
It took a woman who had nothing but her children and a great faith to show him more about happiness...this is a wonderful read especially during this season.
October 13, 2014
AWESOME! I LOVED this novel and highly recommend it to everyone.
November 17, 2023
When I started it, I... it wasn't good but it was like one of the more cringy Hallmark storylines. Billionaire playboy meets penniless woman with small children and can't leave them stranded on the side of the road in an ice storm, so he brings them home. It's... okay, but the way this is written, it came off trite, too-pat, wincingly saccharine, and kind of unbelievable.
He immediately does a 180 and becomes this man desperate for home and hearth, for faith (ha!) and family, for love and leisure. How about no? And of course she's actually a widow of a wealthy man who had her catering dinners, hostessing... so she hostesses/caters for his X-mess party, and in cringeworthy fashion, his girlfriend brings a dog and the kids found/smuggled in a cat, and the cat (laughably) ends up on the ceiling fan, while the dog eats the party food...
(((((sigh.)))))
I was sighing. Enduring this.
Trying to tell myself it was worth it.
And of course her dead husband was THE biggest scum of the earth. He embezzled. He mowed down her rose bushes. He didn't like dancing. He hated this, and controlled that and crapped all over her. Because ALL previous husbands are vermin. (((sigh some more.)))
Until the author decides to frack up the heroine with self-absorption, which basically is "I am woman, I want to work, I want to be independent, I want to stand on my own, I want my own house, I want - I want - I want".... and falling for him would *OBVIOUSLY* wreck what SHE wants. Harpy selfish brat that she is.
Um... if a man says he's falling in love with you (and you with him), wants to take care of you and your children...? Wants to support and help you, form a lasting bond with you? THAT'S what's best for the children, hello. Not shoving them in a public school so you can have a career and independence, just cuz you're insecure and want to be in control. While bitching at HIM about how he's always so about being in Control. What is that?!?!
Then the author TWISTS SCRIPTURE - "For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." First, the heroine demanding the hero have 'patience' so she can have her selfish little way is wrong on so m any levels, but trying to JUSTIFY it by taking a verse out of context!??! Second, SELF-ELEVATION IS *NEVER the will of God. Handing your children off to be raised by someone else is unBiblical. NOT being the parent and having your own life, instead, is NOT what that verse was ever about!!
I was so pissed off, I chucked the book at a wall. It's one thing if the relationship was moving too fast for her, and she wanted to live apart and be certain of his integrity and sincerity. It's QUITE another for her to be all Helen Reddy and short-sighted, putting herself before everyone else.
That on top of the X-mess is the "most holy day" (No, that would be Yom Kippur) according to scripture and "the day of Christ's birth" (No, that would be Sukkot), which always grinds me, anyhow. But this one beats you over the head with that, which is never fun, either.
DNF @ 168 pages. And as I went on, there were more, and MORE and MORE dog-ears, until she really irked me by blaspheming scripture to serve an agenda.
BADLY done.
He immediately does a 180 and becomes this man desperate for home and hearth, for faith (ha!) and family, for love and leisure. How about no? And of course she's actually a widow of a wealthy man who had her catering dinners, hostessing... so she hostesses/caters for his X-mess party, and in cringeworthy fashion, his girlfriend brings a dog and the kids found/smuggled in a cat, and the cat (laughably) ends up on the ceiling fan, while the dog eats the party food...
(((((sigh.)))))
I was sighing. Enduring this.
Trying to tell myself it was worth it.
And of course her dead husband was THE biggest scum of the earth. He embezzled. He mowed down her rose bushes. He didn't like dancing. He hated this, and controlled that and crapped all over her. Because ALL previous husbands are vermin. (((sigh some more.)))
Until the author decides to frack up the heroine with self-absorption, which basically is "I am woman, I want to work, I want to be independent, I want to stand on my own, I want my own house, I want - I want - I want".... and falling for him would *OBVIOUSLY* wreck what SHE wants. Harpy selfish brat that she is.
Um... if a man says he's falling in love with you (and you with him), wants to take care of you and your children...? Wants to support and help you, form a lasting bond with you? THAT'S what's best for the children, hello. Not shoving them in a public school so you can have a career and independence, just cuz you're insecure and want to be in control. While bitching at HIM about how he's always so about being in Control. What is that?!?!
Then the author TWISTS SCRIPTURE - "For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." First, the heroine demanding the hero have 'patience' so she can have her selfish little way is wrong on so m any levels, but trying to JUSTIFY it by taking a verse out of context!??! Second, SELF-ELEVATION IS *NEVER the will of God. Handing your children off to be raised by someone else is unBiblical. NOT being the parent and having your own life, instead, is NOT what that verse was ever about!!
I was so pissed off, I chucked the book at a wall. It's one thing if the relationship was moving too fast for her, and she wanted to live apart and be certain of his integrity and sincerity. It's QUITE another for her to be all Helen Reddy and short-sighted, putting herself before everyone else.
That on top of the X-mess is the "most holy day" (No, that would be Yom Kippur) according to scripture and "the day of Christ's birth" (No, that would be Sukkot), which always grinds me, anyhow. But this one beats you over the head with that, which is never fun, either.
DNF @ 168 pages. And as I went on, there were more, and MORE and MORE dog-ears, until she really irked me by blaspheming scripture to serve an agenda.
BADLY done.
November 4, 2019
I liked this book but felt that some of the plot details could have been developed more than they were. There were parts of the story itself that I felt were contrived. Sometimes I felt that Myla tried too hard to be independent and that there should have been better communication between her and Nick. Over all this was a good read, but I have read other books by Lenora Worth that I enjoyed more.
February 26, 2021
I really liked it a lot! I was touched on the inside when I got to the ending. I sure wish my sister Betsy would be willing to read this book, because it would make a great Hallmark Channel original movie!
September 26, 2022
A fun, homey romance--modern day fairy tale.
November 15, 2015
A heartwarming story that is perfect for the Christmas season.
Nick Rudolph is a wealthy oil tycoon, He is obsessed with the company he inherited from his father and he is rather self centered and very lonely and bitter since the death of his parents. He seems to just go through the motions of life each day, always feeling an emptiness.
Myla Howell finds herself homeless with her two children Jessie and Patrick.
Nick picks up Myla and the kids when their van breaks down during a storm. He offers them shelter at his home.
Offering to assist Nick with housekeeping duties, Myla waits for a space at Magnolia House, the local homeless shelter. Nick's sister Lydia helps secure a place for Myla there.
Determined to be self sufficient, Myla finds work at a local cafe. She has a great faith which she shares with Nick.
With her encouraging ways, Myla helps Nick rediscover his faith and he gets involved with establishing a local charity for the homeless.
This sweet couple discovers just how special the holidays can be and they also discover just what is important in life.
Nick Rudolph is a wealthy oil tycoon, He is obsessed with the company he inherited from his father and he is rather self centered and very lonely and bitter since the death of his parents. He seems to just go through the motions of life each day, always feeling an emptiness.
Myla Howell finds herself homeless with her two children Jessie and Patrick.
Nick picks up Myla and the kids when their van breaks down during a storm. He offers them shelter at his home.
Offering to assist Nick with housekeeping duties, Myla waits for a space at Magnolia House, the local homeless shelter. Nick's sister Lydia helps secure a place for Myla there.
Determined to be self sufficient, Myla finds work at a local cafe. She has a great faith which she shares with Nick.
With her encouraging ways, Myla helps Nick rediscover his faith and he gets involved with establishing a local charity for the homeless.
This sweet couple discovers just how special the holidays can be and they also discover just what is important in life.
December 4, 2010
There was nothing wrong with the story about the wealthy owner of an oil business picking up a homeless widow and her two children when their car breaks down. The author says the story is part fairy tale and it is, but the best part of a fairy tale is the magic and this didn't have any for me. I didn't feel like I got to know the characters, only facts about them.
The book's copyright is 1998 and I have learned from experience that authors develop their skills over time so I might read something more recent by this author if I come across it, but I won't be looking for her work.
The book's copyright is 1998 and I have learned from experience that authors develop their skills over time so I might read something more recent by this author if I come across it, but I won't be looking for her work.
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January 6, 2017Nick Rudolph oil tycoon was on his way home from Dallas from a business meeting. His wife was waiting for him to take her to the Mayor party. But he almost ran over Myra Howell and her two children that were near the interstate and he stop and pick them up and took them to the truck stop just ahead to get them out of the rain on a cold night went their car broken down. Nick got them a place to stay for the night and had their car tow too the repair shop to have it fix.
August 24, 2016
Enjoyed this:)
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