Christmas is approaching and love is in the air at Bay View Care Home. Supervising carer, Callie Derbyshire, is blissfully happy with new boyfriend, Rhys. The tree’s up, the lights are twinkling, and, with the Christmas Eve wedding of one of the residents, Iris, to look forward to, everything is perfect.

Well, almost. 

Rhys’s ex has him at her beck and call, yet refuses to let Callie meet their baby daughter. Callie’s ex is intent on stirring up trouble. And Callie’s favourite resident, Rhys’s nanna, Ruby, hasn’t been her usual self since Iris announced her engagement.

Convinced that Ruby’s lonely, especially after discovering the truth about her lost love, Callie’s determined to give Ruby’s romantic story the happy ending it deserves. Ruby might be adamant that the past should be left in the past. But, when it comes to true love, surely a little well-meaning meddling and a Christmas wish or two can’t do any harm. After all, it’s never to late to let love in again. Or is it?

A heartwarming Christmas story of finding new love, and the courage to revisit a love that was lost long ago.

Callie’s Christmas Wish follows on from the Whitsborough Bay novella, Raving about Rhys, and follows the fortunes of Callie Derbyshire, a care assistant at the Bay View Care Home, and her boyfriend, the lovely Rhys.
In the novella, the couple finally got together and were all set for a happy ending. But of course, things don’t always go so smoothly, and this story shows the fallout when both partners come with emotional baggage.
Callie is still being plagued by her horrendous ex, Tony, and poor Rhys is at the beck and call of the mother of his daughter, who rings him at all hours to tell him she needs him NOW, causing Rhys to drop everything and rush off to help. Callie wouldn’t mind if the calls were genuine, but Rhys’s ex-girlfriend is the woman who cried wolf, and she seems determined to ensure that Callie and Rhys don’t get a moment together.
At Bay View, meanwhile, Callie is kept busy helping with wedding preparations for resident Iris and her fiance, who are tying the knot on Christmas Eve. Iris’s best friend, Ruby, seems surprisingly subdued about the wedding plans, and Callie discovers a secret that Ruby has nursed for a great many years – a secret that also affects Rhys, since Ruby is his grandmother.
Callie, being the kind-hearted and romantic soul that she is, sets out to heal Ruby’s heart, despite facing opposition from Rhys, his father, and from Ruby herself.
Can she give Ruby the happy ending she deserves? And will Callie’s own Christmas wish finally come true?
Read this book and find out! It’s such a delightful, heartwarming story that you won’t be able to stop reading it once you start. Callie is a lovely character, so full of good intentions that she sometimes blunders in, but far too nice for anyone to stay cross with her. And Rhys, of course, is just as gorgeous as he was in the first book. The perfect match for Callie.
Ruby’s story is a wonderful thread, and I desperately wanted to know what her secret was and, once I discovered it, I wanted – almost as much as Callie does – for her to get her happy-ever-after.
With plot twists and subplots and a whole array of fascinating secondary characters – some nice, some not-so-nice – this is another fabulous story by the talented Jessica Redland. You know, when you pick up one of her novels, that you’re in for a treat and this one is no exception. It’s festive, but can easily be read at any time of year, so whenever you’re reading this, don’t hesitate. Sit back and enjoy another outing to wonderful Whitsborough Bay.