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Christmas at Holly Hill (Winds Across the Prairie) Kindle Edition

by Martha Rogers (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
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Can Clayton Barlow prove he has changed his ways in time for Christmas? It is October 1898, and Clayton Barlow has just returned home after serving time in prison for his part in a bank robbery. His family welcomes him, but the townspeople are skeptical. Bored with life in the small town but determined to make a new start, he goes to work with his father, hoping to regain the town’s trust.  Clayton recognizes the schoolteacher at the Prairie Grove School as his childhood friend, Merry Lee Warner, and old feelings surface. Still, he doubts that he could ever get a woman like Merry to love him. As the townspeople prepare for Christmas, their suspicions about Clayton lead to trouble. Will the trusting heart of an unlikely new friend be enough to restore Clayton’s relationships with his neighbors and reunite him with God and Merry?
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"Martha Rogers, with her winsome yet powerful writing style, immediately pulls readers into the 1898 setting of small-town Prairie Grove, Kansas. The story carries us into the approaching holidays with passion and purpose, keeping us eagerly engaged right up to the satisfying ending."  —Kathi Macias, author of The Deliverer and Unexpected Christmas Hero "Martha has given us a story about Christmas right before the turn of the twentieth century. The characters and plotline kept me turning pages. I highly recommend this wonderful read."  —Lena Nelson Dooley, author of Maggie’s Journey, Mary’s Blessing, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award winner Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico

About the Author

Martha Rogers’s novel Not on the Menu debuted on May 1, 2007, as a part of Sugar and Grits, a novella collection with DiAnn Mills, Janice Thompson, and Kathleen Y’Barbo. Her series Winds Across the Prairie debuted in 2010 with Becoming Lucy, Morning for Dove, Finding Becky, and Caroline’s Choice. Her other credits include stories in anthologies with Wayne Holmes, Karen Holmes, and Debra White Smith; several articles in Christian magazines; devotionals in six books of devotions; and eight Bible studies. Martha served as editor of a monthly newsletter for the writer’s organization Inspirational Writers Alive! for six years and is the state president. She is also the director for the annual Texas Christian Writer’s Conference and is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, for whom she writes a weekly devotional. Martha and her husband are active members of First Baptist Church.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0095VZ5AK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Realms (September 4, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2831 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

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Martha Rogers was born in Texas and lived in Dallas the first 18 years of her life. After graduating from Baylor University she moved to Houston and has been there ever since. Martha is a retired teacher at both secondary and college levels. She and her husband Rex enjoy spending time with their grandchildren and attending football, baseball, and basketball games when one of the grandchildren is playing or performing. Her four, soon to be five great-grandchildren are most important right now. Martha loves to cook and experimenting with recipes and enjoys scrapbooking when she has time and isn't on a deadline.

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Deborah K. Epperson
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT Book by Martha Rogers
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2012
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Book Description

It is October 1898, and Clayton Barlow has just returned home after serving time in prison for his part in a bank robbery. His family welcomes him, but the townspeople are skeptical. Bored with life in the small town but determined to make a new start, he goes to work with his father, hoping to regain the town's trust.

Clayton recognizes the schoolteacher at the Prairie Grove School as his childhood friend, Merry Lee Warner, and old feelings surface. Still, he doubts that he could ever get a woman like Merry to love him.
As the townspeople prepare for Christmas, their suspicions about Clayton lead to trouble. Will the trusting heart of an unlikely new friend be enough to restore Clayton's relationships with his neighbors and reunite him with God and Merry?

My Review

This book is 6th book in the Winds Across the Prairie. I have read almost all of Martha Rogers books and believe you me, if you have not read her books, you really need to. This book keeps your attention from the very first page and it is so good that you will not want to put it down.

This book is about Clayton Barlow and Merry Warner. When they were 16 years old, Merry really liked Clay but Clay got himself in trouble with the law and went to prison for 5 years. During that time, Merry left Prairie Grove, Kansas, but she is back and she is a schoolteacher. Clay returns from prison but some people in the town are standoffish towards him and he is afraid of getting close to Merry because of what that would do for her reputation.

In the meantime, Clay learns that Merry's family now runs Holly Hill which is an orphanage for children and he is very impressed how Merry deals with the children and it just hits that soft spot in his heart.

I won't say anything else, I don't want to spoiI the book for you. I just loved this book, Martha Rogers is one of the best authors ever. You will not be sorry if you will pick up this book soon and read it. I couldn't' hardly put it down. Thank you, Martha for giving us all a GREAT story.

You would love this book if you are from Kansas or Oklahoma, I know I sure did. Of course since I live in Oklahoma, this series hit a spot in my heart. I love my Oklahoma roots.
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pat c
5.0 out of 5 stars Meaning of Christmas
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2022
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A very good story of Christmas and community spirit. Well worth a nostalgic read. Happy holidays to those that read it.
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Harold Wolf
4.0 out of 5 stars Christian historical Christmas fiction, cozy as Yule log glow
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2012
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1898 Kansas Advent filled with a bank robbery, 1st elec-lit tree, kidnap escape, orphans and few sugar plums dancing. A link to Martha Rogers' Winds Across the Prairie series pulls in a couple characters from book one, `Becoming Lucy.' Don't worry, it's a stand alone Christmas tale complete with well defined lifestyles of Kansas pioneer living.

Predictability, but that's typical with Christmas novels, as well as romance. Clayton is released after doing his time, the only Laramie gang bank robbing member to be caught-and convicted. He returns to his boyhood Kansas home, finding his boyhood girlfriend, Merry (as in Merry Christmas, predictable), and town's schoolmarm. It's Christian, Christmas, romance so is there any romance readers expecting the inevitable? But how can so much go wrong between the homecoming, not liked by all of the town, and Christmas Day?

There's heartwarming holiday school/church events to attend, a house fire to combat, and of courts that Laramie gang that escaped capture through the years of Clayton's incarceration will come to town, as sure as Santa himself. It's a fast-pace time in a slower-paced 19th century for the town and for readers. That makes it a step above the average Love Rekindled Christmas romantic book. And personally I was thrilled to read a character dialoguing "Pshew", a term my own real Grandma Wolf (born in 1898) said commonly and often enough.

Historical drama for guys, gift wrapped romance for the girls. A fairly quick read, keeping one entertained, and mild suspense sledding through holiday snow. Yes, it's true; I've already purchased the series book 1.
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Mary Stillwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2018
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It was a very good and clean book. I would say the books was Good enough for all ages to read.

Please do not post my name, at this time it is not the same. Thanks in advance.
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Jaybird
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2014
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Along the lines of the other Martha Rogers books I have read. I would definitely recommend this book to her fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book. Ready for the next book in the ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015
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Good book. Ready for the next book in the series!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2016
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Really good book
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Jennifer L Day
4.0 out of 5 stars Feel Good Christmas Story
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
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Christmas at Holly Hill is your typical happy ending novel, but equally engaging. The main characters are likeable, although Merry's life at Holly Hill does seem a bit implausibly too good to be true and a prairie house-fire does seem to have its tragedy glossed over. The story is riveting, even mid-story my pulse was quickening through as the events unfolded. A few minor editing errors through me off early on, thus the four stars.
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