The Dark Horse by Liz Flaherty

The Dark Horse

by Liz Flaherty

Series: 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas #10, Christmas Town #10
Published by IndieWrites on October 9, 2018
Genres: Sweet Holiday Romance
Pages: 160
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Also in this series: A Christmas Carousel Proposal, A Miracle for Christmas, Pride and Presents, Sleigh Bells in the Snow, Our Christmas Promise, Defending Christmas, The Hope Chest, Paint Me a Christmas, A Gift Horse, Santa School, His Christmas Carousel Baby, Five Golden Wishes, Christmas Town Homecoming: A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection

The Dark Horse is Book 4 in the Christmas Carousel series and part of the 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas - a 2018 clean romance anthology from some of your favorite Harlequin Heartwarming romance authors.

In THE DARK HORSE, widowed Chloe Brewton has made a life for herself in Christmas Town, Maine, teaching literature and being the drama coach at the high school. Although she’d loved her husband and their life in the army, she doesn’t really want to start over with someone else, but when she meets Major Row Welcome, in Christmas Town to spend the holiday month with relatives and decide about his future, she feels stirrings of old wishes for happily-ever-after. The attraction is mutual, although the last thing Row wants is to try marriage again, plus he’s about as interested in having a family as…well, he isn’t. But then there’s Connor Michaud and his three younger siblings. Oh, no. What now in Christmas Town?

Can Chloe love another military man?

The Dark Horse by Liz Flaherty is the tenth book in the 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas pack of books, and I loved it. It was a nice contrast to the others so far, which is always good. The two main characters come together because they love each other; but also because they want to help one of their students and his siblings.

Chloe (Brewton) Welcome

Chloe (Brewton) Welcome started the book as Chloe Brewton the widower of an Army medic and knew that she didn’t want that life anymore. Though love doesn’t always listen. She loves the students she teaches and has always wanted to be a mom. In this book, she gets everything she’s ever wanted and more. Chloe is a fantastic character, and it surprised me when Chloe would do something that I wouldn’t think she would do. Her life it seemed was waiting for her new husband to come along and pick up the pieces of her heart giving her the family she’s always dreamed of having.

Rowan Welcome

Rowan Welcome is on his leave from Thanksgiving to until the New Year, and he’s spending it with his uncle and aunt in Christmas Town, Maine. It’s here that he finds his calling and maybe a life that he doesn’t want to leave. He has a heart murmur that he has to take into account, and Rowan’s a great person. Especially with taking care of the four kids that he and Chloe have decided to foster together. They got married so that they could do this and he is perfectly happy with where he is at in life. The ending was perfect for this happy little family of six.

Five Stars

The Dark Horse by Liz Flaherty is an excellent book that covers more than just Heartwarming Christmas. It includes a family that isn’t blood but one that they choose. Ms. Flaherty did an excellent job with this story. I am giving it five stars and recommending it to everyone that reads Romance.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of The Dark Horse by Liz Flaherty.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

If you would like to see other reviews from the 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas, please go HERE.

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:

• 2019 Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge
• 2019 Goodreads Reading Challenge

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