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The Christmas Eve Promise
Eve and baby Colleen are traveling to Ohio for the Christmas holidays to spend time with Eve’s parents. After a few days in Ohio, they all plan to fly to Florida in Eve’s father’s private airplane. Patrick will meet them there after he completes exams for his forensic psychology degree. Nothing goes as planned. The day Patrick is to leave for Florida, he receives a shocking telephone call from one of Eve’s cousins. Sobbing, she tells him a terrible tragedy has occurred. It stuns him and shakes him to his heart’s core. His life shattered, Patrick knows he has but one he must use the time travel lantern to return to the past in order to prevent the current tragedy. But once again, the time travel lantern has a mind of its own, and Patrick is hurled back to a time where he must confront a strange, unfamiliar world and learn why the lantern transported him there.When Patrick comes face-to-face with a mysterious, beautiful woman who looks and acts like Eve, and whose name is Eve, Patrick is haunted. He recalls the promise he and Eve had made to each other on Christmas Eve the previous year—no matter what happens; no matter if they’re separated; no matter what time or place they find themselves in; no matter what obstacles they must face, they will always find each other, help each other, and love each other for all time.The Christmas Eve Promise is a journey about the enduring promise of hope and the infinite, unbreakable bonds of love.
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Published September 22, 2020
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Elyse Douglas
44 books335 followersElyse Douglas is the pen name for the husband and wife writing team of Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse began writing poems and short stories at an early age and graduated with a Master's Degree in English Literature. Douglas grew up in a family of musicians, astrologers, and avid readers. Some of Elyse Douglas' novels include: "Time Change," The Summer Letters," "Daring Summer," The Christmas Eve Series" and "Time Stranger." They reside in New York City.
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October 27, 2020
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THE CHRISTMAS EVE PROMISE – A Time Travel Romance (The Christmas Eve Series Book #4) by Elyse Douglas is the latest in the series of Christmas themed romance time travel books featuring Eve and Patrick Gantly. While each book is complete with a HEA story, they are a continuing sequence of the main character’s adventures and journeys to find each other throughout time, so I feel they are best read in order.
It all began in book one with Eve discovering a time travel lantern which took her back in time to find her soulmate and true love, Patrick.
It is Christmas Eve, 2020. Eve, baby Colleen and Patrick are planning on a vacation in Florida for Christmas with Eve’s parents after Patrick finishes his exams in forensic psychology. First, Eve and Colleen travel to Ohio to visit relatives and then they will fly with her parents to Florida as Patrick takes the train from New York.
Then a tragedy occurs.
Patrick is devastated. He has one hope. He will once again use the time travel lantern to save his wife and child.
The time travel lantern has a mind of its own and Patrick in sent to 1925. Will Patrick find his soulmate, Eve and be able to save his family?
This is another wonderful addition to the series. The authors once again have Eve and Patrick not only searching for each other, but also changing the lives and sometimes the futures of others. Even as you need to suspend belief, it does not make the story less intriguing or heartwarming. The action is fast paced in this story and the emotional investment kept me turning the pages. I found all the details of the time-period, as in all the books, to be thoroughly researched.
I highly recommend this time travel romance and all the books in the series!
THE CHRISTMAS EVE PROMISE – A Time Travel Romance (The Christmas Eve Series Book #4) by Elyse Douglas is the latest in the series of Christmas themed romance time travel books featuring Eve and Patrick Gantly. While each book is complete with a HEA story, they are a continuing sequence of the main character’s adventures and journeys to find each other throughout time, so I feel they are best read in order.
It all began in book one with Eve discovering a time travel lantern which took her back in time to find her soulmate and true love, Patrick.
It is Christmas Eve, 2020. Eve, baby Colleen and Patrick are planning on a vacation in Florida for Christmas with Eve’s parents after Patrick finishes his exams in forensic psychology. First, Eve and Colleen travel to Ohio to visit relatives and then they will fly with her parents to Florida as Patrick takes the train from New York.
Then a tragedy occurs.
Patrick is devastated. He has one hope. He will once again use the time travel lantern to save his wife and child.
The time travel lantern has a mind of its own and Patrick in sent to 1925. Will Patrick find his soulmate, Eve and be able to save his family?
This is another wonderful addition to the series. The authors once again have Eve and Patrick not only searching for each other, but also changing the lives and sometimes the futures of others. Even as you need to suspend belief, it does not make the story less intriguing or heartwarming. The action is fast paced in this story and the emotional investment kept me turning the pages. I found all the details of the time-period, as in all the books, to be thoroughly researched.
I highly recommend this time travel romance and all the books in the series!
November 18, 2020
If you are a fan of time travel novels, you must pick up this series, but make sure to start with the first book to follow the characters and the events that happen! I love it and the concept of time travel is mind-boggling.
What would you do to undo a tragedy that happens and you know that you have a lantern to go back in time and potentially change the situation? Would you go back? That is the dilemma that Patrick is faced with in the present and he decides to take a chance. He lands in 1925 and isn't quite sure why he landed in this time, but he will soon find out. Along with the adventures and solving how and why Patrick meets Eve's doppelganger. This definitely throws him for a loop, but he thinks back to the previous year when he and Eve made the promise to each other that they will also look for each other since they are soulmates. I even appreciated the storyline with Sarah Finn, a homeless woman in 1925 that calls Patrick "Buster Boy." You couldn't help but love her despite her crotchety ways.
This novel has it all for me - romance, adventure, and a little bit of suspense/mystery. I had a hard time putting this book down because I couldn't wait to find out what came next. I loved the appearance of several characters from the previous books and their role in helping Patrick in the past. There is even a conversation with Tesla who created the lanterns. I have to say that Tesla is quite the odd duck. I don't know if he was like that in real life, but he is very science-oriented and only cares about what he is currently working on and not his past inventions.
We give this book 5 paws up and who knows if Patrick and Eve will have any more adventures with the lantern, but if they do, I will be ready and waiting to read that novel.
What would you do to undo a tragedy that happens and you know that you have a lantern to go back in time and potentially change the situation? Would you go back? That is the dilemma that Patrick is faced with in the present and he decides to take a chance. He lands in 1925 and isn't quite sure why he landed in this time, but he will soon find out. Along with the adventures and solving how and why Patrick meets Eve's doppelganger. This definitely throws him for a loop, but he thinks back to the previous year when he and Eve made the promise to each other that they will also look for each other since they are soulmates. I even appreciated the storyline with Sarah Finn, a homeless woman in 1925 that calls Patrick "Buster Boy." You couldn't help but love her despite her crotchety ways.
This novel has it all for me - romance, adventure, and a little bit of suspense/mystery. I had a hard time putting this book down because I couldn't wait to find out what came next. I loved the appearance of several characters from the previous books and their role in helping Patrick in the past. There is even a conversation with Tesla who created the lanterns. I have to say that Tesla is quite the odd duck. I don't know if he was like that in real life, but he is very science-oriented and only cares about what he is currently working on and not his past inventions.
We give this book 5 paws up and who knows if Patrick and Eve will have any more adventures with the lantern, but if they do, I will be ready and waiting to read that novel.
October 26, 2020
The Christmas Eve Promise is the 4th book in this time travel romance series and the first, that I have read, but it definitely won't be the last. You don't need to read the previous books to follow this one, since the author does give you pertinent details from the others, so that you can follow the plot.
On Christmas Eve 2019, Patrick and Eve promise each other to always find each other, even though circumstances may find them apart. Patrick and Eve are very in love, soulmates, and with baby daughter Colleen and dog Colin they are the perfect family. However, fate tears them apart the following Christmas 2020, when Eve and Colleen die in a tragic plane crash. Patrick is so devastated, that he tries the magic time lantern, invented by Nikola Tesla, to reunite with his family, even though they were determined never to use it again. Patrick wants to go back in time just before the accident in order to attempt to prevent it. But the time lantern has other plans. He is hurled back to New York City in 1925. Not knowing why he is sent to that date, he encounters a young woman, identical to his wife Eve, even down to the same occupation. Patrick is drawn into helping her.
This book has many appealing features. The story is very fast paced and the characters intriguing. I love how the author describes the details of New York City in the various time periods, the buildings and other sites, real life people and the general atmosphere of daily living. When Patrick finds himself on a park bench in 1925, he meets Sarah, a down and out woman, who becomes his friend. The scene is very reminiscent of Macaulay Culkin and the dove lady in Home Alone 2. The author even describes life during the covid virus. I wonder, what future readers, will think of all, that we have to endure during this pandemic! Having lost a family member right before Christmas, the tragic accident really filled me with emotion, even though it has been 40 years for my family's loss. My grandfather died the day before the date of novel's action in 2020. I can really sympathize with the devastation, that Patrick felt.
On Christmas Eve 2019, Patrick and Eve promise each other to always find each other, even though circumstances may find them apart. Patrick and Eve are very in love, soulmates, and with baby daughter Colleen and dog Colin they are the perfect family. However, fate tears them apart the following Christmas 2020, when Eve and Colleen die in a tragic plane crash. Patrick is so devastated, that he tries the magic time lantern, invented by Nikola Tesla, to reunite with his family, even though they were determined never to use it again. Patrick wants to go back in time just before the accident in order to attempt to prevent it. But the time lantern has other plans. He is hurled back to New York City in 1925. Not knowing why he is sent to that date, he encounters a young woman, identical to his wife Eve, even down to the same occupation. Patrick is drawn into helping her.
This book has many appealing features. The story is very fast paced and the characters intriguing. I love how the author describes the details of New York City in the various time periods, the buildings and other sites, real life people and the general atmosphere of daily living. When Patrick finds himself on a park bench in 1925, he meets Sarah, a down and out woman, who becomes his friend. The scene is very reminiscent of Macaulay Culkin and the dove lady in Home Alone 2. The author even describes life during the covid virus. I wonder, what future readers, will think of all, that we have to endure during this pandemic! Having lost a family member right before Christmas, the tragic accident really filled me with emotion, even though it has been 40 years for my family's loss. My grandfather died the day before the date of novel's action in 2020. I can really sympathize with the devastation, that Patrick felt.
October 22, 2020
If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you probably noticed that I love Elyse Douglas novels. They are a married couple who release many novels each year. They are a power couple of literature. I have not read a book that they have written that I have not loved. Their new novel, ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’ is no exception!
Book 4 of the ‘Christmas Eve’ series, ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’, starts out with a promise that Patrick and his wife give each other.
“I want both of us to promise that no matter what happens to us; no matter if we’re separated; no matter what time or place we find ourselves in; no matter what obstacles we face, we will always find each other, help each other and love each other, for all time.”
This is a promise that Patrick will soon need to find a way to keep and it won’t be easy. It means that he will need to light the time travel lamp again. He has no control over what year if will bring him back to. This time it ends up being 1925. Why it brought him all the way back to 1925, he has no clue. He really was hoping to just go back a few days or even a week.
While in 1925 Patrick gets reacquainted with a character from the previous books and meets all kinds of new quirky and some dangerous characters. He also meets a woman who looks just like his wife, Eve. Is she a relation to Eve? Is she the link to what he is looking for?
I love reading about the roaring 20’s and the time of prohibition, not to mention woman only got the right to vote only 5 short years before! The characters, the times, place, and landscape of 1920’s New York all came to life in the expert writing style of Elyse Douglas. The Douglas’s have a way of writing that makes you feel like your have time traveled and are interacting with the characters and experiencing everything they experience.
I cannot recommend this series highly enough. Though each book can be read apart from the others, I do recommend you read the entire series in order to experience the full story. Elyse Douglas has left me begging for more! Please continue the series, pretty please! I give it a big five stars!
Book 4 of the ‘Christmas Eve’ series, ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’, starts out with a promise that Patrick and his wife give each other.
“I want both of us to promise that no matter what happens to us; no matter if we’re separated; no matter what time or place we find ourselves in; no matter what obstacles we face, we will always find each other, help each other and love each other, for all time.”
This is a promise that Patrick will soon need to find a way to keep and it won’t be easy. It means that he will need to light the time travel lamp again. He has no control over what year if will bring him back to. This time it ends up being 1925. Why it brought him all the way back to 1925, he has no clue. He really was hoping to just go back a few days or even a week.
While in 1925 Patrick gets reacquainted with a character from the previous books and meets all kinds of new quirky and some dangerous characters. He also meets a woman who looks just like his wife, Eve. Is she a relation to Eve? Is she the link to what he is looking for?
I love reading about the roaring 20’s and the time of prohibition, not to mention woman only got the right to vote only 5 short years before! The characters, the times, place, and landscape of 1920’s New York all came to life in the expert writing style of Elyse Douglas. The Douglas’s have a way of writing that makes you feel like your have time traveled and are interacting with the characters and experiencing everything they experience.
I cannot recommend this series highly enough. Though each book can be read apart from the others, I do recommend you read the entire series in order to experience the full story. Elyse Douglas has left me begging for more! Please continue the series, pretty please! I give it a big five stars!
October 6, 2020
I received a copy of this book in exchange for a frank and honest review. I received no pay or other compensation.
The precise is simply this: love will find a way no matter how much it must bend time and space to accomplish its purposes.
Patrick and Eve are deeply in love in America of the ‘20s. The 2020s. They found each other through the actions of a device theorized and then developed by Nikolai Tesla that would allow people to travel in time to explore—and affect—the past. All it happiness and joy on Christmas Eve. 1884 and 2019 America meet beneath a Christmas tree, baby in the crib asleep, champagne flutes filled, and nothing but happiness ahead for them
And then soon after they are separated not by time and space or even by broken love, but by the vicissitudes of life that seem to take love from us and then laugh at our pain and grief.
And herein lies the story: Can Patrick go back in time somehow using the spark of time travel invented by Tesla? Somehow not only is time and space bent to take him back, but love focuses his own heart into finding the right moment in the past to explore, to inquire about his purpose, to once again find love—and to be a powerful actor upon the lives of his contemporaries.
Patrick and Eve are separated now by more than just time and space, and yet Patrick finds a soulmate in the past, with whom he conspires to rescue the daughter he never had and in the process establish that even in a past mutually separate from both Eve and Patrick, they can still find their soul mates and not only change the future, but change themselves in the process.
It is a satisfying story with comfortable characters—that is, the people feel very real. Their flaws are up front and center, as well as their strengths and even their beauty of purpose and desire. It is a romance, and so it has all the elements of a satisfying tale of hearts united—but with the added fillup of reaching across the void and silence of the universe that works to isolate us.
Because love will find a way, whether it is to rescue a child in distress or to find a distant, lost partner.
This is Book 4 of the series, and while I have not read the previous books, there is just enough backstory scattered throughout the book that the reader is able to build the paradoxical worlds of Patrick and Even.
For it seems that not only will love find a way to travel through all space and time, it will also bend the “rules” of the universe that seem to block us from changing the past—and thereby changing the future.
Is such time travel possible? I don’t know. But I hope that if it is true, then it will be possible only when focused by and purpose through love.
This book is a satisfying read, a wonderful mashup of sci-fi and romance, with definite characters, motives, and actions. If you’re willing to suspend your disbelief just a tiny bit, you will find this book to be a unique way to tell the story that we always love to hear.
The precise is simply this: love will find a way no matter how much it must bend time and space to accomplish its purposes.
Patrick and Eve are deeply in love in America of the ‘20s. The 2020s. They found each other through the actions of a device theorized and then developed by Nikolai Tesla that would allow people to travel in time to explore—and affect—the past. All it happiness and joy on Christmas Eve. 1884 and 2019 America meet beneath a Christmas tree, baby in the crib asleep, champagne flutes filled, and nothing but happiness ahead for them
And then soon after they are separated not by time and space or even by broken love, but by the vicissitudes of life that seem to take love from us and then laugh at our pain and grief.
And herein lies the story: Can Patrick go back in time somehow using the spark of time travel invented by Tesla? Somehow not only is time and space bent to take him back, but love focuses his own heart into finding the right moment in the past to explore, to inquire about his purpose, to once again find love—and to be a powerful actor upon the lives of his contemporaries.
Patrick and Eve are separated now by more than just time and space, and yet Patrick finds a soulmate in the past, with whom he conspires to rescue the daughter he never had and in the process establish that even in a past mutually separate from both Eve and Patrick, they can still find their soul mates and not only change the future, but change themselves in the process.
It is a satisfying story with comfortable characters—that is, the people feel very real. Their flaws are up front and center, as well as their strengths and even their beauty of purpose and desire. It is a romance, and so it has all the elements of a satisfying tale of hearts united—but with the added fillup of reaching across the void and silence of the universe that works to isolate us.
Because love will find a way, whether it is to rescue a child in distress or to find a distant, lost partner.
This is Book 4 of the series, and while I have not read the previous books, there is just enough backstory scattered throughout the book that the reader is able to build the paradoxical worlds of Patrick and Even.
For it seems that not only will love find a way to travel through all space and time, it will also bend the “rules” of the universe that seem to block us from changing the past—and thereby changing the future.
Is such time travel possible? I don’t know. But I hope that if it is true, then it will be possible only when focused by and purpose through love.
This book is a satisfying read, a wonderful mashup of sci-fi and romance, with definite characters, motives, and actions. If you’re willing to suspend your disbelief just a tiny bit, you will find this book to be a unique way to tell the story that we always love to hear.
October 21, 2020
I received a copy of 'The Christmas Eve Promise - A Time Travel Romance: (Book 4) The Christmas Eve Series' in order to complete my review. All opinions are 100% my own and not influenced by receiving my printed copy.
The love and commitment Eve and Patrick have for one another is one everyone who has ever been in love seeks to have.
When Patrick is en route to meet Eve and baby Colleen for their Christmas Eve celebration he is notified by one of Eve's closest friends that a tragedy has happened. This is when Patrick has to decide the use the lantern to go back in time and see if he can undo the tragedy that has happened in the present.
When you make a promise to someone you love, you will do everything in your power to keep that promise. Just as Patrick is trying to do. The problem is he encounters more issues than he had expected when he goes back in time.
Fighting to find his way back to Eve it feels like everything is against him in his pursuit.
If you enjoy a good love story, time travel, and love to have a book you don't want to end. Then this story is for you. Elyse Douglas is an author to be reckoned with when it comes to her writing style. Her ability to write books that you don't want to end is prevalent in each of her books in this Christmas Eve series. This is the fourth book in her Time Travel Christmas Eve series. Although you don't "have" to read the other three, I would definitely encourage you to do so. You will be glad that you did.
The love and commitment Eve and Patrick have for one another is one everyone who has ever been in love seeks to have.
When Patrick is en route to meet Eve and baby Colleen for their Christmas Eve celebration he is notified by one of Eve's closest friends that a tragedy has happened. This is when Patrick has to decide the use the lantern to go back in time and see if he can undo the tragedy that has happened in the present.
When you make a promise to someone you love, you will do everything in your power to keep that promise. Just as Patrick is trying to do. The problem is he encounters more issues than he had expected when he goes back in time.
Fighting to find his way back to Eve it feels like everything is against him in his pursuit.
If you enjoy a good love story, time travel, and love to have a book you don't want to end. Then this story is for you. Elyse Douglas is an author to be reckoned with when it comes to her writing style. Her ability to write books that you don't want to end is prevalent in each of her books in this Christmas Eve series. This is the fourth book in her Time Travel Christmas Eve series. Although you don't "have" to read the other three, I would definitely encourage you to do so. You will be glad that you did.
October 9, 2020
The husband and wife writing duo that go by the name Elyse Douglas have done it again. This is the third book in this series that I have read and I always enjoy the way that they craft a story and the amount of research they put into the details.
I love the depth of the writing in these novels and the atmosphere that drips off of every single page.
This book throws fans of the series for a loop almost immediately, beginning at Christmas 2019 with Eve and Patrick drinking a toast to always finding each other and being there for each other through all of life's struggles. The following Christmas, Eve and their newborn daughter, Colleen take a trip to Ohio to visit Eve's parents.
While they are there, a devastating and unforeseen tragedy befalls the small family and Patrick must find a way to right this wrong and help his family. Fortunately, he has a solution.
See, Eve and Patrick originally met via a lantern that Eve found in an antique shop that grants the holder the ability to travel through time. The plot of the first book in the series revolves around Eve going back to the 1800's, meeting Patrick and falling in love with him.
Patrick intends to use the lantern to go back a short time, but the lantern has other ideas. He is sent back to the year 1925 where he struggles to find a place to live and ends up meeting a woman who looks and sounds like Eve and has the very similar name of Evelyn. Patrick must figure out what this woman has to do with his wife and whether or not he can save his family in a heart-pounding series of events that keep the reader guessing and fans hooked on every word.
I love the depth of the writing in these novels and the atmosphere that drips off of every single page.
This book throws fans of the series for a loop almost immediately, beginning at Christmas 2019 with Eve and Patrick drinking a toast to always finding each other and being there for each other through all of life's struggles. The following Christmas, Eve and their newborn daughter, Colleen take a trip to Ohio to visit Eve's parents.
While they are there, a devastating and unforeseen tragedy befalls the small family and Patrick must find a way to right this wrong and help his family. Fortunately, he has a solution.
See, Eve and Patrick originally met via a lantern that Eve found in an antique shop that grants the holder the ability to travel through time. The plot of the first book in the series revolves around Eve going back to the 1800's, meeting Patrick and falling in love with him.
Patrick intends to use the lantern to go back a short time, but the lantern has other ideas. He is sent back to the year 1925 where he struggles to find a place to live and ends up meeting a woman who looks and sounds like Eve and has the very similar name of Evelyn. Patrick must figure out what this woman has to do with his wife and whether or not he can save his family in a heart-pounding series of events that keep the reader guessing and fans hooked on every word.
September 23, 2020
Elyse Douglas – Christmas Eve Series Bk 4 – The Christmas Eve Promise – Reviewed 9/22/20 – Read 8/17-18/20
Promise that marriage is forever even if you are from two different eras!
Eve made her first-time travel trip back to the year of 1885. While she was there, in the middle of a whirlwind adventure she met Patrick, during that time they fell in love. Later Patrick decided that he could not live without Eve and he joined her when she returned to the twenty-first century.
The last trip that they made to New York, 1884, Eve was shot. Her arm is still in a sling, but it is healing. Now it is 2019 and it is Christmas Eve. They are in their New York apartment with their baby, Colleen laying in her crib close by, sound asleep. The tree is beautifully decorated, Bing Crosby is crooning “White Christmas” and the snow is drifting down outside their window. A perfect scene, just like a movie set. They are holding their champagne flutes up when Patrick asks, “What should we toast to?”.
Eve has that mischievous look on her face, they have lots to be thankful for, but they have also lost a lot. Nevertheless, today she wants them to make a special promise to each other. “I want both of us to promise that no matter what happens to us: no matter if we’re separated; no matter what time or place we find ourselves in; no matter what obstacles we face, we will always find each other, help each other and love each other, for all time”
And now the story begins…
What did I like? Without a doubt, in my mind, this is the best yet in this series. Elyse and Douglas have ramped this book up beyond any of the others. The love that Eve and Patrick have for each other is nothing but amazing. The fact that they both have fought to be with one another and then time has played so many tricks on them. They have locked the lantern up several times, and it seems that time knocks on their door, letting them know that something is wrong. Another thing I like is the fact that they are prepared to accept the fates that have been dealt with them. They never seem to doubt that it is the right thing to do. They just prepare for the trip and take off!
What will you like? This is a fast-paced book that certainly keeps the action going. The emotions are over the top, I wanted to help them so much. The characters are incredibly special and so unique. Again, the descriptions and details are so spot on, with the research showing on every page. When I was reading, I felt like I was back in time with them, it felt so real. The storyline is beautifully written with so much heart showing on every page. It is amazing to be able to feel like you are involved but disheartening that you just cannot help them work out their problems. If you are a time travel lover then this is the series for you to be reading, each is remarkable and so enjoyable. I categorically suggest that you add this to your reading list today.
• File Size: 5083 KB
• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publication Date: September 22, 2020
• ASIN: B08GCZ9ZVF
• Genre: Time Travel Romance, Time Travel Fiction
Promise that marriage is forever even if you are from two different eras!
Eve made her first-time travel trip back to the year of 1885. While she was there, in the middle of a whirlwind adventure she met Patrick, during that time they fell in love. Later Patrick decided that he could not live without Eve and he joined her when she returned to the twenty-first century.
The last trip that they made to New York, 1884, Eve was shot. Her arm is still in a sling, but it is healing. Now it is 2019 and it is Christmas Eve. They are in their New York apartment with their baby, Colleen laying in her crib close by, sound asleep. The tree is beautifully decorated, Bing Crosby is crooning “White Christmas” and the snow is drifting down outside their window. A perfect scene, just like a movie set. They are holding their champagne flutes up when Patrick asks, “What should we toast to?”.
Eve has that mischievous look on her face, they have lots to be thankful for, but they have also lost a lot. Nevertheless, today she wants them to make a special promise to each other. “I want both of us to promise that no matter what happens to us: no matter if we’re separated; no matter what time or place we find ourselves in; no matter what obstacles we face, we will always find each other, help each other and love each other, for all time”
And now the story begins…
What did I like? Without a doubt, in my mind, this is the best yet in this series. Elyse and Douglas have ramped this book up beyond any of the others. The love that Eve and Patrick have for each other is nothing but amazing. The fact that they both have fought to be with one another and then time has played so many tricks on them. They have locked the lantern up several times, and it seems that time knocks on their door, letting them know that something is wrong. Another thing I like is the fact that they are prepared to accept the fates that have been dealt with them. They never seem to doubt that it is the right thing to do. They just prepare for the trip and take off!
What will you like? This is a fast-paced book that certainly keeps the action going. The emotions are over the top, I wanted to help them so much. The characters are incredibly special and so unique. Again, the descriptions and details are so spot on, with the research showing on every page. When I was reading, I felt like I was back in time with them, it felt so real. The storyline is beautifully written with so much heart showing on every page. It is amazing to be able to feel like you are involved but disheartening that you just cannot help them work out their problems. If you are a time travel lover then this is the series for you to be reading, each is remarkable and so enjoyable. I categorically suggest that you add this to your reading list today.
• File Size: 5083 KB
• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publication Date: September 22, 2020
• ASIN: B08GCZ9ZVF
• Genre: Time Travel Romance, Time Travel Fiction
October 23, 2020
This book is a perfect read, , with definite characters, motives, and actions.
The love and commitment Eve and Patrick have for one another is can and does stand the test of time. This is one in a lifetime love.
In this 4th book Patrick is en route to meet Eve and baby Colleen for their Christmas Eve celebration. when he is told of the tragedy.
If you love time travels and love this is the one for you. Elyse Douglas is a great story teller and I catch myself starting to believe.
Read all of their stories and I'm sure you will want to believe in love and time travel. Keep up the good work.
The love and commitment Eve and Patrick have for one another is can and does stand the test of time. This is one in a lifetime love.
In this 4th book Patrick is en route to meet Eve and baby Colleen for their Christmas Eve celebration. when he is told of the tragedy.
If you love time travels and love this is the one for you. Elyse Douglas is a great story teller and I catch myself starting to believe.
Read all of their stories and I'm sure you will want to believe in love and time travel. Keep up the good work.
January 2, 2026
After 3 great stories, book 4 was a disappointment. One more book in this series.
October 8, 2020
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not financially compensated, and all opinions are 100 percent mine.
First of all, this series is one that has been near and dear to my heart for some time. I do not typically enjoy time travel books, but this one is the exception to the rule. I know that every time I pick up one of these books, I will find romance, Christmas celebrations, historical themes, and basically family-friendly tales. There are some minimal views of a pretty tame bedroom scene, and the language in the book is not overly shocking. But other than that, the reader will find nothing potentially offensive.
What I love about this book is that the romance is still there as well as the mystery and intrigue. The conclusion of the book is never in question, but what an entertaining ride! The reader never knows from one page to the next what twists and turns the story will take, and no matter what, we are always cheering on the lovers. No loose ends, and the story is a perfect escape into a world when times were simpler. The struggles of 2020 take a backseat to this charming story and fun read!
First of all, this series is one that has been near and dear to my heart for some time. I do not typically enjoy time travel books, but this one is the exception to the rule. I know that every time I pick up one of these books, I will find romance, Christmas celebrations, historical themes, and basically family-friendly tales. There are some minimal views of a pretty tame bedroom scene, and the language in the book is not overly shocking. But other than that, the reader will find nothing potentially offensive.
What I love about this book is that the romance is still there as well as the mystery and intrigue. The conclusion of the book is never in question, but what an entertaining ride! The reader never knows from one page to the next what twists and turns the story will take, and no matter what, we are always cheering on the lovers. No loose ends, and the story is a perfect escape into a world when times were simpler. The struggles of 2020 take a backseat to this charming story and fun read!
July 11, 2021
Excellent read once again. Had some twists and turns. Highly recommend this the fourth book In the Christmas series.
October 7, 2020
I've enjoyed every book in the series. What's not to like.
October 4, 2020
As Always
WONDERFUL! Read all four books in the series and loved them ALL. NOW, I'll have to start on one of her other books.
WONDERFUL! Read all four books in the series and loved them ALL. NOW, I'll have to start on one of her other books.
December 5, 2021
I’m a sucker for time travel, and I clear my December to put away as many Christmas novels as possible. I read the Christmas Eve letter three years ago, and I still hear “Mr. Albert Harringshaw” in my nightmares. The authors lean on repetition and formality, and some characters were a bit too mustache twirly for my tastes. (I remember a character referred to as some variation of “the bad man’ as well in a later book.)
Still, I read one a year, and do give credit for its efforts to complicate the time travel up a bit. Joni changed between books, buildings moved, Georgie Boy vanished. There were costs associated with travel. Nicely done.
I wasn’t sure where this one would go. Was Eve 2 really the same person? Would the series continue with her in the 21st century, as Patrick, to the best of my memory, shifted in the third book? That would have been interesting.
I feel this one was a bit stronger than the past books, in terms of likeable characters (the homeless woman and the one mustache twirler were far preferable to the dingbat in the last book who made my eyes bleed) but I did have one issue with the ending. In book 3, Joni leaves a letter for Eve and Patrick, along with the lantern, Back to the Future style. Patrick travels back and interacts with her again before she can write the letter. She then writes a different letter, but does not include the lantern as she already left it and didn’t want there to be two lanterns. Everyone else echoes this line of thought, concerned about two lanterns.
Wait. Wait. If I leave a lantern for my great grandkids in my closet, and then decide in five years that I can’t re-leave it to my grandkids so I give it away….my grandkids aren’t getting the lantern because I only have one lantern. How could she choose to give it away and still have it be there at the start of this book? It’s the same one she left the first time! Technically, based off this book, the book couldn’t happen because Joni never would have left the lantern in the last book, so Eve and Colleen would have crashed and that would have been it. But then that would have produced a paradox because Patrick wouldn’t have met Joni again in this book to disrupt her delivering the lantern in the first place. The ending produces a paradox and everybody missed it. Either I’m greatly missing something or the writing was a bit weak there.
This left me at 3 stars versus 4. I get time travel is confusing, but that everyone else went a completely different way with it completely flummoxed me at the ending.
Book 5 in 2022!
Still, I read one a year, and do give credit for its efforts to complicate the time travel up a bit. Joni changed between books, buildings moved, Georgie Boy vanished. There were costs associated with travel. Nicely done.
I wasn’t sure where this one would go. Was Eve 2 really the same person? Would the series continue with her in the 21st century, as Patrick, to the best of my memory, shifted in the third book? That would have been interesting.
I feel this one was a bit stronger than the past books, in terms of likeable characters (the homeless woman and the one mustache twirler were far preferable to the dingbat in the last book who made my eyes bleed) but I did have one issue with the ending. In book 3, Joni leaves a letter for Eve and Patrick, along with the lantern, Back to the Future style. Patrick travels back and interacts with her again before she can write the letter. She then writes a different letter, but does not include the lantern as she already left it and didn’t want there to be two lanterns. Everyone else echoes this line of thought, concerned about two lanterns.
Wait. Wait. If I leave a lantern for my great grandkids in my closet, and then decide in five years that I can’t re-leave it to my grandkids so I give it away….my grandkids aren’t getting the lantern because I only have one lantern. How could she choose to give it away and still have it be there at the start of this book? It’s the same one she left the first time! Technically, based off this book, the book couldn’t happen because Joni never would have left the lantern in the last book, so Eve and Colleen would have crashed and that would have been it. But then that would have produced a paradox because Patrick wouldn’t have met Joni again in this book to disrupt her delivering the lantern in the first place. The ending produces a paradox and everybody missed it. Either I’m greatly missing something or the writing was a bit weak there.
This left me at 3 stars versus 4. I get time travel is confusing, but that everyone else went a completely different way with it completely flummoxed me at the ending.
Book 5 in 2022!
November 13, 2020
Like an eagerly anticipated gift at Christmas, along comes a new novel in this author’s excellent time travel series. Opening this book is like unwrapping the mystery and magic of the season. This entry in the saga of Evelyn and Patrick was somewhat different and not quite what I expected. Kind of like all these books. But that’s actually a good thing because you never know where they’re going to take you. Just like lighting the time travel lamp, you never know where you’ll end up. In this case it’s the middle of the Roaring 20s, with everything that the era entails. You have gangsters, flappers, gin joints and hot jazz. And as usual, our century hopping hero is in the midst of it all. Get ready to light the match and set it to the candle’s wick and watch the sparks fly, as yet another outstanding time travel adventure begins.
**I received a copy of this book from the author. My review is strictly voluntary.**
**I received a copy of this book from the author. My review is strictly voluntary.**
November 28, 2020
If you like time travel, historical fiction, romance, or anything Christmas, then this is the book for you. This book is a 4th in series and is said to be a stand alone. I would suggest to read the first two books because it will give you an idea of who the characters are and how their connection came to be.
The story begins in modern day 2020. The main characters, Patrick and Eve are a beautiful couple that have a new daughter. It was sad to me that (spoiler) that tragedy strikes so early in the book. However, it does set up the return to time travel and how they will eventually fill the "Christmas Eve Promise."
Although, admittedly, I am not a romance kind of reader, their love for each other is literally timeless and not sappy, it worked for me. I like the idea of time travel and the way it is supposed to happen in this book is interesting.
Nice read.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the authors. The views here are 100% my own and may differ from yours. ~Michelle
The story begins in modern day 2020. The main characters, Patrick and Eve are a beautiful couple that have a new daughter. It was sad to me that (spoiler) that tragedy strikes so early in the book. However, it does set up the return to time travel and how they will eventually fill the "Christmas Eve Promise."
Although, admittedly, I am not a romance kind of reader, their love for each other is literally timeless and not sappy, it worked for me. I like the idea of time travel and the way it is supposed to happen in this book is interesting.
Nice read.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the authors. The views here are 100% my own and may differ from yours. ~Michelle
November 12, 2020
The Christmas Eve Promise is the fourth installment from the time travel romance series, The Christmas Eve Series by Elyse Douglas. I love this series and this addition does not disappoint. Since, it is part of a series, I believe it would be best to read it in order, but readers could get by reading this as a stand alone. It was great catching up with Eve and Patrick again and finding out where they are at now. Once again, they get pulled into some suspense, mystery, adventure and action. It kept me engaged throughout. It was so very good.
I am giving The Christmas Eve Promise a very well deserved five plus stars. I highly recommend it for readers who enjoy reading Historical Romance, Time Travels and stories set during the magical time of Christmas.
I received The Christmas Eve Promise from the publisher. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.
I am giving The Christmas Eve Promise a very well deserved five plus stars. I highly recommend it for readers who enjoy reading Historical Romance, Time Travels and stories set during the magical time of Christmas.
I received The Christmas Eve Promise from the publisher. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.
December 24, 2021
Patrick, Eve, and their baby have a wonderful life in the year 2020. And then the unthinkable happens, and Patrick, desperate, travels back in time - alone. He goes back much further in time than he wished, and he must find out why the lantern took him there. He does meet an old friend from the past/future, and her family. And he meets someone new, at least, sort of new. It’s quite an adventure! This well-written series is really captivating, with great characters and fascinating stories. Read it from the beginning, so you don’t miss a thing. I just hope the characters aren’t done time traveling. Perhaps they will head into the future next time! Highly recommended.
January 5, 2023
Great reading.
I was a little sad at the start (not giving details) then angry or possibly confused at Patrick possibly kissing another Eva but her dream of Georgy Boy kinda eased the anger. Then I thought of the lamps but the story answered that. Now to legitimate complaint. I was a former healthcare worker til MS had me retire but I can surely tell you that high blood pressure is hypertension and does not to be repeated in one sentence as if they were different things. It's redundant but to someone who doesn't know it won't make a difference. All in all I loved the book, can't wait to read the next one. I don't think I'm done yet.
I was a little sad at the start (not giving details) then angry or possibly confused at Patrick possibly kissing another Eva but her dream of Georgy Boy kinda eased the anger. Then I thought of the lamps but the story answered that. Now to legitimate complaint. I was a former healthcare worker til MS had me retire but I can surely tell you that high blood pressure is hypertension and does not to be repeated in one sentence as if they were different things. It's redundant but to someone who doesn't know it won't make a difference. All in all I loved the book, can't wait to read the next one. I don't think I'm done yet.
August 14, 2025
I am not a girly girl romance novel reader. I love sci-fi, dystopian and time travel books, however, the first book was free on Audible and it was a time travel novel so I thought "what the hell?" I fell in love with the protagonists and every book in the series is just lovely. You feel, smell and see New York City in all the different times they travel to.
Yes it's a romance novel too and the love is a boundless love.
Yes it's a romance novel too and the love is a boundless love.
November 16, 2020
Seriously Entertaining!!!
I must say that Elyse Douglas writes the most awesome books!!! Once you get started, you will have a difficult time putting it down!!! I love her time travel series!! They are the greatest ever!!!!
I must say that Elyse Douglas writes the most awesome books!!! Once you get started, you will have a difficult time putting it down!!! I love her time travel series!! They are the greatest ever!!!!
December 18, 2020
Love will always find a way
Loved the book. Drew me in completely. Had me in tears. Wondering if not only do you need lantern but because of what happened on that particular place you need to light it there.
Loved the book. Drew me in completely. Had me in tears. Wondering if not only do you need lantern but because of what happened on that particular place you need to light it there.
February 21, 2021
Another delightful weekend read
I have read all of Elyse Douglas' books and thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them. Now I am awaiting her next time travel novel about Pateick and Eve.
I have read all of Elyse Douglas' books and thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them. Now I am awaiting her next time travel novel about Pateick and Eve.
July 22, 2021
Over The Top
In this awesomely written Time Travel Romance we find Patrick traveling back in time to discover a way to save his wife and child. As always intriguing mystery and suspense follows along. This book is a great addition to a series I highly recommend.
In this awesomely written Time Travel Romance we find Patrick traveling back in time to discover a way to save his wife and child. As always intriguing mystery and suspense follows along. This book is a great addition to a series I highly recommend.
December 13, 2021
Another great Christmas time travel book by favorite authors! This book has Patrick traveling back to 1925 in an attempt to stop the events that lead to his wife & true love Eve losing her life & that of his baby daughter on Christmas Eve in present day.
January 30, 2022
Oh my goodness! I thought the 3rd book in the series was the best, and then I read this one. It was so sad in the beginning, that I didn't think I could continue. I am so glad I did; could not put it down until I got to the last page.
December 11, 2022
3.5 stars. This is the 4th book in this series and, for me, it is also 4th in favor. It just seemed a little forced and I wasn’t crazy about the doppelgänger angle. But like in the other books, learning the history and culture through the time travelers was interesting. The narration was awesome.
January 9, 2025
Truly a must read!!
This authors writing is detailed yet not confusing or overly detailed. She paints an easy picture.
The story line.... although not real.... feels like it could be with the way the story is written.
I am on to the next one 😁
This authors writing is detailed yet not confusing or overly detailed. She paints an easy picture.
The story line.... although not real.... feels like it could be with the way the story is written.
I am on to the next one 😁
June 9, 2021
Loved this end of the series book - or is it the end ! all books were very enjoyable
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