{"id":18025,"date":"2014-11-26T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2014-11-26T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T04:42:29","slug":"the-christmas-tree-bride-by-susan-page-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=18025","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Tree Bride by Susan Page Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Christmas Tree Bride” is the eighth installment in the 12 Brides of Christmas series of novellas. Like the preceding novellas, it is a short and sweet romance that takes place during the Christmas season.<\/p>\n

Featuring Polly Winfield who helps her parents run a stagecoach stop in Wyoming Territory, the story depicts the sometimes lonely life and hard work involved in running a stage stop. Polly’s isolation is somewhat relieved by the presence of new driver Jacob Tierney during his layover between runs. When he learns how important having a Christmas tree is to Polly, Jacob promises to bring her one in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n

By their very nature these novellas must be short and to-the-point but some of them make me long for an extended version and “The Christmas Tree Bride” is one of those. I would have loved to read more detailed interaction between Polly and Jacob. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed each of the novellas thus far and look forward to reading the rest of the series.<\/p>\n

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This book was provided for review by Shiloh Run Studios.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Polly Winfield lives at the stagecoach station that her father operates and often sees Jacob Tierney, one of the drivers. But winter arrives on the prairie bleak and uneventful, and she confesses to Jacob that all she longs for is a Christmas tree. Will a stagecoach accident prevent him from making her wish come true?<\/div>\n
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More About The Christmas Tree Bride<\/em> with Susan Page Davis\u00a0<\/strong>As a veteran writer of 50 novels, Susan Page Davis loves historical fiction and often finds inspiration\u00a0from her family history.\u00a0While her own family always had a Christmas tree\u2013no surprise since she grew up in Maine\u2013she was interesting in writing a story set in a place where trees were hard to find.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Christmas<\/em>\u00a0Tree Bride<\/em>, Polly moves to Wyoming Territory with her parents and helps run a stagecoach stop during the time period prior to the completion of the\u00a0Transcontinental Railroad.\u201d I added characters to help keep the stage line moving, and also envisioned what sort of romance might take place there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the course of writing the novella, Susan was surprised when one of her secondary characters,\u00a0Billy Clyde, the shotgun rider, developed a strong personality of his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cI set\u00a0The Christmas Tree Bride<\/em>\u00a0in 1867 because I love that time period and the excitement of westward expansion,\u201d Susan explained. \u201cI knew a tree was something a girl would miss,\u201d for her first Christmas away from her greater family. Susan\u2019s own family enjoys large family get-togethers during the holidays.<\/p>\n

As part of her research, Susan investigated what \u00a0trees grew in Wyoming and also learned the type of Christmas cards sent at that time.\u00a0(Which, of course, was just after the ending of\u00a0the\u00a0Civil War).<\/p>\n

Her heroine, Polly, reflects certain aspects of Susan\u2019s character. She\u2019s impulsive and desires to please and help others. Among the spiritual themes is a simple one: \u201cGod provides the things we really need, even when it seems unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The setting for\u00a0The Christmas Tree Bride<\/em>\u00a0is familiar\u00a0to Susan as she married a man from\u00a0Oregon\u00a0and has driven the east to west route and back again several times.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of my ancestors stayed in\u00a0<\/em>New England<\/em>, but my great-great grandfather on my mother\u2019s side did go west after the Civil War, driving cattle out there. He also did some gold mining. My husband\u2019s family, on the other hand, took to the wagon trails and left some vivid tales behind.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Given her experiences writing historical fiction, Susan wouldn\u2019t mind visiting Winfield Station,\u00a0\u201cbut I don\u2019t think I\u2019d want to live there!\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is Susan Page Davis?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A native of Maine, Susan has spent most of her life there, with forays to her husband\u2019s home state of Oregon, and is now relocated to Kentucky. She homeschooled her six children. Like several other\u00a012 Brides of Christmas<\/em>\u00a0authors, Susan descends from patriots who\u00a0defended their country during the\u00a0American Revolution, and has used some of their inspiring stories in her own writing.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Susan on her webpage:\u00a0www.susanpagedavis.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan Page Davis blogs on the twenty-third of the month on the\u00a0Christian Fictional Historical Society<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

In addition, you can find Susan on\u00a0Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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