SNOW ANGEL COVE by RaeAnne Thayne starts with a highly improbable premise and has you thinking just how can this possibly end. How can you get a happy ending with a beginning like this one. Well it takes a great deal of imagination, and courage and if you ask me just the kind of writing one expects from RaeAnne Thayne.

How do you ever get to love after getting practically run down by the guy? Just how needy are you to get yourself tied to the guy much less work for the very man who could have killed you - well that is a stretch but you get the idea. Not to mention this is the man you believe in your heart drove your now deceased husband to drink and drive.

How do you get from that point to a place where you begin to see this man clearly in fact probably clearer than anyone else including his large and close knit family? It's magic and its love and it's simple.

Aiden puts together puzzles in his work as a computer programming genius whose life is spent in front of a laptop. He likes and respects plans. But life doesn't always go according to anyone's plan. And that's when guys like Aidan need someone to help them get out of their rut.

Enter Eliza and Maddie; certainly someone had a good sense of humor throwing these people together. Truly not a match by any stretch of the imagination. And yet they fit. Each was looking for help - not talking about pity or charity, but help, love and belonging. Family is important and for someone lacking that -- well just enjoying a brief time surrounded by a family is a dream come true. This is the strange predicament Eliza and Maddie find themselves in and is the best Christmas gift. But the bubble could burst. Life does not come with guarantees. Eliza has learned to make lemonade from lemons. She turns an unexpected disaster into a possibility for some joy, happiness and security even if for a short time. Aidan is a wealthy, successful businessman whose life took a rather odd turn and was going to learn some very important lessons about love and life. Aidan's teachers are a single struggling mother and her young daughter.

SNOW ANGEL COVE by RaeAnne Thayne is about belonging - family, friendship, community - belonging and finding your place. Life is full of surprises and challenges -- some small, others huge -- basically life changing. How we measure up to these challenges determine ultimately the kind of person we are. But even so we sometimes fall short of expectations -- our own and others. You might think RaeAnne Thayne took a lot of liberties -- or one could call it poetic license in this story SNOW ANGEL COVE but I like to think she followed her heart.

SNOW ANGEL COVE is a story about strength and hope. The theme could be how to keep hope alive even when life gets beyond complicated. The Christmas season is supposed to be about possibilities. Perhaps with an added amount of fate thrown in.

RaeAnne Thayne's characters have enormous strength and possess gifts of all kinds. In the season of giving SNOW ANGEL COVE shows us so many ways to give to others. The greatest gift is of course love and there is lots of love going around in Angel Cove. SNOW ANGEL COVE was my introduction to RaeAnne Thayne and she now has a place on my must reads.