Dashing Through the Snow

Merry and Bright Romance #5

by Daphne Lynn Stewart

When Chelsea Doll meets Jason Frost she realizes she is engaged to the wrong brother. She and Bryce are planning their Christmas Eve wedding at Langdon Hall a luxury country estate hotel. Bryce is a stockbroker in Toronto and Chelsea is an executive risk analyst whose secret dream is to run her own florist shop. Jason is a local business owner who runs Dashing Through The Snow (or sun), a horse and carriage business for weddings, and corporate and community events. It seems she and Bryce’s brother have everything in common including a love of dogs. Their pets Honey and Holly are smitten with each other. Are she and Jason? If only she had met him first. A few days before the wedding Chelsea’s car gets stuck in a snowdrift on her way home from town to pick up Bryce’s Christmas gift. Just when she thinks she will die in the storm, Jason appears on a white horse to rescue her. Now Chelsea must choose. Her future happiness depends on it.

Genres: Romance, Holiday

102 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2016

About the author

Daphne Lynn Stewart is a pen name used by fantasy/suspense author Deborah Cannon for her novelettes, a series of Christmas romances for pet lovers and her Summer Destiny series.

In 2013 she won an honourable mention for her short story Twilight Glyph in the Canadian Tales of the Fantastic contest and in 2014 her story “Tang’s Christmas Miracle” appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada. Her career as a science fiction/fantasy writer began when she sold two short stories to Farsector SFFH magazine (2003). She has contributed to the Canadian Writer’s Guide and is best known for The Raven Chronicles, a series of paranormal archaeological suspense novels and a time slip series for young adults, The Pirate Vortex. Recently she launched a fiction series of Kindle Short Reads called Close Encounters of the Cryptid Kind. Her most recent release under the name of Deborah Cannon is a critically acclaimed epic The Pirate Empress, a Chinese historical fantasy. She is also a book reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

She lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her archaeologist husband.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I dislike any story with the main character falling for multiple members of the same family. It's gross and unrealistic that any family would be ok with it. In this story, I find it even worse because it wasn't a fast track romance leading to the wedding to flip over to another man. Bryce & Chelsea have been together for 3 years so they're very involved & intimate and not just a superficial couple. Chelsea meets her soon to be brother in law less than a week before the wedding and the reader is supposed to believe she turns her entire world upside down over a few meetings. It was so stupid & irritating. Adding in the backstabbing wedding planner who also happens to have been another woman that both brothers dated added to the icky factor of the story.

Bryce's reaction to the entire thing was completely unbelievable. He was calm and kind to Chelsea while losing a second woman to his younger brother (left Melinda bc she couldn't get over Jason). Not only was he understanding, he rearranged the wedding so Chelsea could marry Jason & stayed to attend his wedding with his brother taking over as the groom. And their families & friends just calmly go along with it all even though it's beyond weird. I didn't even like Jason & Chelsea as a couple either. There was just nothing good about this story at all.