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Holt, Milla. After the Frost. London, UK: Reinbok Limited, 2024.

Seasons of Faith, book 5

Mosaic Collection

Summary

He’s a widower who has lost the perfect wife. So, why is he drawn to a woman who’s not the marrying kind?

Steinar is adjusting to life as a single dad of seven-year-old twins. He hoped that moving back to his home country would bring healing to his little family, but settling into their new home in a small Norwegian town is proving harder than he thought. His children struggle with the language and miss their life in England. Getting involved in the community might be the answer, and he’s happy to volunteer in the town’s Christmas festival.

Reidun bucks traditional roles and never thought of herself as wife material, nor the mothering type. But now that she’s the only single woman left in her friend group, she’s spending a lot more time alone than she’d like. She needs a new project to keep herself busy, and planning her small town’s first ever Christmas festival sounds perfect.

Amid the twinkling lights and festive preparations, Reidun doesn’t expect the single dad and his feisty twins to find the soft spot in her heart. They’re used to the perfect homemaking wife and mom, and she’s anything but.

This Christmas, they’re all about to learn that sometimes God’s perfect gifts come in the most unlikely packaging.

After the Frost is Book 5 in Milla Holt’s Seasons of Faith Christian romance series. Five friends were in the same wedding in a small Norwegian town over twenty years ago. Four bridesmaids, one bride. Now, two decades on, each woman learns that God’s timing is perfect as they find forever love later in life.

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My Adult Review

I have enjoyed all of the books in Milla Holt’s Seasons of Faith series, part of the Mosaic Collection. After the Frost was no different. It is a beautiful story of a love at middle age. 

Steinar is a widower with young twins. He is totally devoted to them and to creating a new life for them in Norway. His first wife was considerably younger than him and a “Susie homemaker.” Reidun is a female plumber who is used to doing things for herself and not much into “homemaker” things. She is the only one left of her five closest friends who is still single – all of them recently finding love. She is a bit lonely now that her friends all have husbands. 

I love the way that Holt developed the love story of these two unlikely characters for a match. I also enjoyed the craft fair aspect of the plot as I used to work craft fairs myself. 

While Seasons of Faith is now a complete series, I look forward to what Holt has coming in the future. I find her stories to be comfortable stories to read when I want some down time.

After the Frost is an adult book. While there is nothing in it that would prevent it from being included in a K-12 Christian school library, I doubt there would be much interest in that audience for a book with middle-aged main characters – although staff at the school would enjoy it. 

I received a complimentary copy of After the Frost. This is my honest review. 

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