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    A Seaside Christmas
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    A Seaside Christmas

    Written by Sherryl Woods

    Narrated by Christina Traister

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    About this audiobook

    #1 New York Timess bestselling author Sherryl Woods takes you back to Chesapeake Shores for another heartwarming holiday season

    As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever.

    Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production…and to make peace with the past. As if that's not challenging enough, Caleb Green, the singer who broke her heart, has followed her to town, determined to win her back.

    With the help of a little O'Brien holiday magic, will Jenny and Caleb find a way to make sweet music forever?

    "Love, marriage, family, and forgiveness all play an important part in Woods's latest richly nourishing, holiday-spiced novel." -Chicago Tribune on A Chesapeake Shores Christmas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781480539228
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    A Seaside Christmas
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    Sherryl Woods

    With her roots firmly planted in the South, Sherryl Woods has written many of her more than 100 books in that distinctive setting, whether in her home state of Virginia, her adopted state, Florida, or her much-adored South Carolina. Sherryl is best known for her ability to creating endearing small town communities and families. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 75 romances for Silhouette Desire and Special Edition.

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    • 4/5
      Good story of second chances. Jenny is still trying to get over her breakup with Caleb. She had been deeply in love with him when he was caught cheating on her. Her humiliation was complete with the horrible photos printed in all the tabloids. She feels a need to get out of Nashville and when she has an opportunity to go home to Chesapeake Shores, she takes it.Going home isn't as easy as it sounds. Ever since her mom married Thomas O'Brien she's felt like an outsider. She had been used to it being just her and her mother, and she hadn't been happy with the idea of sharing her mother with him. When her mom got pregnant, she really felt like she didn't belong anymore. She has avoided going home as much as possible for years now, and things with the family just keep getting more awkward. Her uncle's wife Bree is putting on a Christmas play and wants Jenny to write the music for it. This gives Jenny a reason to go home, but can she mend fences with her family?Caleb knows he screwed up when he cheated on Jenny in a drunken haze. The fallout from that convinced him that he needed help. He lost Jenny and he wrecked his career. So he checked into rehab and made a start at putting his life back together. One thing that he is that he needs Jenny back in his life. He finds an excuse to follow her to Chesapeake Shores and there hopes to show her that they really do belong together. He's fighting an uphill battle though. Jenny wants nothing to do with him, and her family has made it clear that they are watching him very closely. Jenny has never stopped loving Caleb, even though he broke her heart. She's not happy that he has showed up in Chesapeake Shores. What's worse, Bree has offered him a spot in her play, feeling that Jenny's music and Caleb's voice will take it to a whole new level. Jenny also suspects that Bree is indulging in the family habit of meddling and matchmaking. Having Caleb constantly there is putting a strain on her attempts to protect her heart from being broken again. She wants him, but she's afraid to trust him. Caleb is determined to win Jenny back. Being in rehab gave him the opportunity to reassess his life and see where he wants it to go. He wants Jenny to be part of that life. When he arrives in Chesapeake Shores he's pretty nervous about dealing with her family, and isn't surprised that he doesn't exactly get a warm welcome. He is surprised when Bree asks him to appear in her show, and talks Jenny into working with him. He quickly realizes that this is probably his only chance to win Jenny back. He lets her know that he still loves her, but he's careful about not pushing too hard. He knows he has a long way to go. I loved seeing Caleb's attempts to win Jenny back. He knows her very well, so he can see that she still loves him, but that she's afraid to trust him. He starts out slowly, with agreeing to work with her on the music for the play, and reminding her of the way they had been friends before they were lovers. He knows of her problem with her mother and helps her to see what she needs to do. I loved his sensitivity to those feelings, and his way of helping her with the Christmas decorating was really sweet. I loved the way that he didn't try to make excuses for his mistakes, but owned up to them and tried to be better. I enjoyed seeing him deal with her family, from the ladies who were willing to help him, to the men who were a bit harder to win over. The thing I liked the most was that Caleb never gave up showing Jenny just how much he loved her.Jenny was a little harder for me to like. While I understood her initial reaction to her mother's marriage, I thought she held on to those feelings for too long. It really made her seem kind of childish. I really didn't like the way that she couldn't even make herself be nice to her little brother. It took Caleb to get her to ease into a relationship with little Sean. I even would have understood her feelings if the O'Briens had treated her like an outsider, but they didn't. Every one of them treated her as part of the family even before her mom married Thomas, so I just didn't get it. I was happy to see her finally start to act like an adult and apologize for being a brat. When it came to her and Caleb, I completely understood her feelings. She had been so devastated that she didn't want to risk her heart again. But it didn't take long for her to realize that she still loved him, she just had to decide if she was ready to do something about it. His understanding of her feelings about the Christmas decorations and his finding of the Christmas train broke down the last walls, but she was still reluctant to go that final step. There was one last obstacle to overcome, but Caleb's big moment was so sweet and moving. I really enjoyed seeing the various members of the O'Briens and their parts in getting Caleb and Jenny back together. It was great to see their support of Jenny and how that support also included their trademark meddling.
    • 4/5
      4 STARSI want to go and see a Christmas play! Listen to the music and go see the train with Santa riding in it. Merry Christmas.This is a heart warming story of love and forgiveness. Of being with family to share with. Lots of O'Brien too add into the fun.Their was a little of the story that I could see coming a long ways from. I read this book fast did not want anything but to read and find out how it willall come together.Jenny is a very talented song writer. She has not been home for years. She has only seen her half brother when he was born. Now after a very public breakupwith Caleb in the tabloids she is going home. She is going to help write songs too go along with Bree's play she wrote.Caleb knew he had blown the best things in his life. He wants Jenny back. He has sobered up in rehab. Now he wants to get his life and career back. He has heard Jenny's new song and he wants it. They had worked great together in the past. He follows her to her hometown.When Bree learns Caleb is going to be in town as long as it took to earn Jenny's heart back, she asks," Caleb to be in her Christmas play?" Caleb thinks it would be great for his career and it would force Jenny to work with him again.Most of the O'Briens are ready to give him one chance, but warn him not to hurt Jenny again.I laughed, got in the mood for hot chocolate even though it's in the 90s. I was left with a smile and for once wanting a book to come with CD of new music that Jenny wrote.I was given this ebook to read and asked to give honest review of it by NetGalley and Harlequin.publication: September 24th 2013 by Harlequin MIRA 288 pages ISBN 9780778315117
    • 4/5
      Jenny Collins has established herself as a successful song writer in Nashville, Tennessee. She has done a lot of work with Caleb Green who has been a very successful country singer for longer than Jenny has been writing songs. They became a couple and were very much in love when Caleb's drinking got out of hand. He was spotted out with another woman and their pictures were plastered all over the tabloids, humiliating Jenny and breaking her heart. Caleb immediately went into rehab as he knew immediately what his drinking had cost him. After years of living in Nashville, Jenny has decided that it is time to take a break from the hectic life she has been living and go home for a little rest and relaxation and to see her family again. Her mother was married into the O'Brien family and Jenny had a young brother that she hardly knew. Caleb, having completed his stint in rehab, was working with a young and upcoming country singer and recognized a song that he was singing. He knew the writer had to be Jenny. In discussing his guess with the other singer, Caleb learned that Jenny was going home for the holidays. He knew this was his chance. If he was ever to get back with Jenny, it would be now. This was my first Chesapeake Shores Novel and I thoroughly loved it. The author has a way of spinning a story that pulls you right in. The characters were wonderful and I just loved the big family that supported them. The plot pulled on the heart strings and kept me moving forward looking for that HEA! Well done! I will be reading more Chesapeake Shores Novel.**A Good Reads Win
    • 2/5
      I honestly enjoy Christmas books, but this lacked the spirit found in Debbie Macomber, Mary Clark Higgins, or Anne Perry. The O'Brien clan sounded wonderful, but no character stands out as memorable, not even Nell. The story line followed a predictable route with no joys or sorrows that need to carry the story. I love stories of the Maryland coast, such as those of Laura Lippman, but again this novel fell short. Woods expounds on the lyric writing skills of Jenny Collins, but no song is delivered in the novel.
    • 3/5
      Jenny Collins, a lyricist, upset over her recent break up with singer Caleb Green, returns to Chesapeake Shores after a long absence. Having mended his ways, Caleb follows Jenny to try to win her heart back. Jenny's strained relationship with her mother, step father and step brother are also part of the plot. Unfortunately this book felt flat to me. I did not sense chemistry between Jenny and Caleb. He did his best to rectify things and Jenny acted like a spoiled child toward Caleb and her extended family. Review based on an ARC received from NetGalley
    • 4/5
      This is a hard book for me to review. I love Sherryl Woods and the Chesapeake Shore series, but I wonder how authors come up with these idyllic locations on the Chesapeake. Having live there for many years, I am still searching for them. In this book, we are supposed to love Jenny, the prodigal daughter, who took off for Nashville, became a famous song writer, fell in love with and was betrayed by Caleb, and has now returned to her birthplace to try to lose her anger at Caleb, mend fences with her recently mother, little brother and step-father. However, Jenny comes across as a spoiled brat, who has never grown up. Perhaps that is how the author meant her to be, but it did not engender any love for her from me. Then there is Caleb, the rat who betrayed Jenny with another woman and only make (not to mention how the tabloid coverage only increased the pain). Still, Caleb follows Jenny to make things right, to apologize—to do anything to win her back. Throughout the story, Caleb shows more maturity, understanding and acceptance than Jenny ever does. I found him more admirable than Jenny ever was. This is a good story for the season, filled with love, redemption, and family, but there is nothing new or earth-shattering about it, so whether you like it or not depends on what you are looking for. It helps to have read the rest of the books in the series because many of the characters mentioned in them appear in the story with little or no background.
    • 3/5
      A Seaside Christmas (Chesapeake Shores #10) is a light seasonal Christmas read. I would recommend reading the other Chesapeake books in order to keep up with the array of O’Brien characters.

      The audio book was nicely done and the narrator Christina Traister’s voice was pleasant to get you in the holiday season mood.
      As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted to be a part of a large family; however, she was jealous and behaved like a brat. After a few years in Nashville she returns to Chesapeake Shores to help her friend Bree with a Christmas production and hopefully make peace with her mother. However Caleb, the country music star who broke her heart by cheating follows her there to try and win back her trust.

      As usual the O’Brien’s come together and stick their nose in make things happen to develop a sweet romance.
    • 4/5
      A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl WoodsThis family saga is about Jenny Collins=her mom went and married the elder O'Brien and they had a son. She just didn't fit in but her aunt Bree talked her into coming back after years of trying other things: college and songwriting in Nashville. She had broken up a year ago with Caleb Green.This book also follows Caleb and his life in Nashville, listening to others sing Jennie's songs. He wants to buy that song and will go to Chesapeake Shores and talk to her-something he hadn't done when they broke up.In town everybody in the family is trying to get Jenny on board to attend the welcome home party and to make amends with her mother... She's also working with Bree on the Christmas play songs. Caleb hits town to apologize to Jenny...Dillon, another local guy she used to play music with is divorced and wants to date her. Super surprise what her mom and step-dad give her when she's back in town, it's so perfect.To help Bree and her new production company they agree to work together so she'll have a really good season.Love catching up with all the families and especially during the holiday season.Caleb's idea to decorate her yard with decorations-he gets the go ahead by Bree who in turn sends all the males to the house to help complete the job. They hope she appreciates and likes it especially the special piece he found.He wins the males over with the lure of a benefit concert for their land and preservation ideas...Jenny listens to how he's changed and she's seen it for herself but she has some doubts he will go back to his bad ole self ... and he does have the part where he kisses the older female in the play...til she finds out another reason he came to town...I received this book from Net Galley via Harlequin MIRA in exchange for my honest review.