Luke's Gift

The Harlow Brothers, Book 2

By: Kaylie Newell

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

After serving in the army, Luke Harlow returns home in time for the holidays to help his brothers raise their 12-year-old half-sister. With his new job as Marietta's police officer, Luke finds himself in the middle of a festive mystery that the entire town will want solved before Christmas morning.

Mary Best is Marietta Courier's most promising young reporter. When she starts spending time with sexy Luke Harlow to write an article about his heroic military service, she begins to suspect there's more to this new police recruit than meets the eye. He's kind, generous, and very mysterious. When anonymous gifts start appearing around town for people in need, Mary knows there's a story there. A magical one. It doesn't take long for the breadcrumbs to lead right back to Luke.

As the gifts pile up, so does everyone's urge to unmask Marietta's secret Santa. Luke is deeply private, and Mary is deeply curious - opposites who'll find themselves tumbling toward each other amid the snowy backdrop of a town fully embraced in the spirit of Christmas.

But when Mary uncovers Luke's secret, will she be able to bury her reporter's instincts for the sake of love? And will Luke finally be able to trust someone with his heart?

©2018 Kaylie Newell (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

A heartwarming story set in a small town.

I enjoyed the story, it is a feel-good heartwarming story. In the first half of the book I was trying to decide if it was the story itself or the narrator, but there were a lot of short choppy sounding sentences and thoughts going on which were rather annoying. It wasn't smooth. I continued to listen because I liked the storyline, and towards the end of the book, the narrator was reading much more smoothly and with much more normal voice inflections so I'm going to go with it being the narrator and not the author. I enjoyed it very much.

I am curious though, being from a small town in New England, exactly what this authors idea of a small town is - a population of 3,000 or 20,000? There are so many conflicting descriptions that it really makes me wonder exactly how big Marietta is supposed to be.

Overall, it's worth the read and leaves you with a nice warm fuzzy feeling.

Good Story

3.75 Stars for me

This was a good story and I liked the relationship building by the author. The dings for me was the overly repetitive head banter which had me skipping forward quite a bit. Ready to read the next book in the series.

Sweet love story with likable characters

I like this story because it has likable characters, based at Christmas time, talks about giving which I like, it’s a love story, and the narration was good. I would recommend it for my girlfriends.

Rabid Reader

Loved the extra Christmas Spirit in this book, and was great to see the characters from the previous book. Thanks for giving us a fun Montana adventure!

Luke and Mary

A wonderfully feel good and beautifully romantic story. Luke is everything everyone women would want, caring, sensitive, strong, tender and thinks of others. I enjoyed this story immensely.
Narration was great!

Great Story

I liked the character development and the story line. It teaches good things to remember.

Sweet

Love these brothers about to read about Judd. I can’t wait to hear who he falls for.

loved it

I really enjoyed reading this book. I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

Sweet story

Very sweet story. LOVED Luke, " hot cop", though it would be refreshing to hear love bloom in average looking people, we get the McHotties of the world get their HEAs... Star of the book, again, was little sister Maddie. That adorable tween cracks me up!
The heroine's attitude a little unbelievable but Luke's charismatic character makes up for all her short comings.

Narration was Terrific!

Sweet

Grip the meaning of sweetness, trust with surprise when most needed. It was very enjoyable.