The Christmas Wish

by Barbara Ankrum

238 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2019

About the author

Barbara Ankrum grew up in Upstate New York, training to be a ballerina, but secretly dreaming of being an actress. Her first fangirl crush on Haley Mills led her to practice her British accent on unsuspecting store clerks, and she dreamed of co-starring in the remake of THE MOONSPINNERS. Because she was also a compulsive reader, she discovered that the film was based on a book by the fabulous Mary Stewart, which led to Barbara's lifelong obsession with romantic fiction.

Since Haley Mills was, sadly, not in the market for a co-star, Barbara pursued a degree in English Literature from the University of Tennessee. And when that degree, predictably, led to unemployment, she pulled up her socks and moved to Hollywood where she built a career as a successful commercial actress while raising two amazing (now grown) children with her sweet husband.

Writing romance came naturally from all that reading and the down time between auditions. Once she sold her first book, she said farewell to Hollywood-Land and never looked back. In between writing novels, she got her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard and optioned a few screenplays. But her first love is, and always will be, romance.

Barbara's emotional, character driven, adventurous historicals (Wild Western Hearts series), her sexy, romantic suspense for Harlequin and her funny, heartwarming contemporaries for Tule Publishing, offer a little something for everyone. Twice nominated for Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA Award, and her contemporary romance, Holiday Hearts, was made into a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Christmas movie! Today, she lives in Texas with her husband and a scruffy, adorable rescue dog.

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Reviews

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading The Christmas Wish by Barbara Ankrum. The story teams up Eve Canaday and Ben Tyler who create Christmas memories for a friend's young daughter. She has lost her mother and her dad is in the hospital after an accident. Eve and Ben are platonic friends, but as they have fun celebrating Christmas with Lily, their relationship changes. This year, Christmas in Marietta turns out to be very special! At 224 pages, this book can easily be read in one sitting.

[Peggy Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great story of helping and how you can fall back in love

[Carolyn DeVries · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first Christmas book this year... not disappointed at all!