Christmas Once Again by D.K. Deters

Christmas Once Again by D.K. Deters
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Contemporary, Historical, Time Travel, Holiday
Length: Short Story (57 pgs)
Heat Level: Sweet
Rating: Three stars
Reviewed by Fern

She’s dead broke. And eviction looms. On Christmas Eve antique consultant Madison Knight takes a phone call from local rancher Zach Murdock. Through a mix-up at an estate sale, Madison’s company purchased his grandmother’s beloved painting. He offers double the money for its return.

Madison risks her job to track down the artwork, but success falls short when she’s stuck in a blizzard. Stranded, she seeks help from a frontier family. Are they living off the grid, or did she somehow travel through time?
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Zach’s the only person who knows her plan. He also knows a secret about his gran’s painting. It’s up to him to rescue Madison, but maybe he’s not cut out to be a hero.

Zachary is working hard to track down a painting accidentally sold that his Gran is desperate to have returned. Finally finding the antique store that bought the item, he speaks with Madison and the two of them try to retrieve the painting. Only Madison discovers that the painting really is important – to herself as well as Zachary’s family.

I found this to be an interesting short story. While simple in some respects, I enjoyed many of the complications in the plotline, finding that it changed what could easily have been a regular time-travel story into a far richer tale. I was also really impressed that Zach’s grandmother wasn’t just a token character, we got to hear her side to the story as well.

Madison was quite a relatable character to my mind, broke and struggling to make ends meet. I sympathized with her confusion when she was unexpectedly tossed back over a hundred years in time and was impressed that she managed to not get herself run out of town as a witch or crazy woman. A part of me was a little disappointed that the short length of the story made the back-and-forth in time travelling feel a little rushed. I couldn’t help but think that the author maybe should have give a little more detail to this section of the book because upon initial reading it felt somewhat confusing and I really think having that part fleshed out a bit more would have made the story far richer to read. I was relieved that there was quite a decent length explanation toward the end, summarizing up the entire chain of events or else I might not have fully pieced the sequence together.

Readers looking for a strong romance might find the relationship between Zachary and Madison not quite as fulfilling as they hoped for. While the two are clearly destined to be together and enjoy a lovely happy ending – the bulk of the story is talking about how they come to be together. Aside from a few chaste kisses there is no physical intimacy between them and indeed the story finishes pretty much as soon as they connect and get together. A lovely story, I found this more geared towards readers who enjoy time-travel novels with only a slight dash of romance. Readers who enjoy the romance and relationship to be front and center might not find this story as appealing.

With a strong plot and plenty going on – I found this to be an interesting and complicated time-travel short story.