Sheila Roberts returns us to Icicle Falls, Washington where three women who live on Candy Cane Lane are having personal crises in their lives. Maddy Donaldson is the "queen" of Candy Cane Lane. She even got the town to change from its original name of Laurel Street. She makes it her duty to see that every house is decorated with lights and has plastics candy canes in the yard. She is also in charge (self-appointed) of passing out candy canes to everyone who visits their street during the holidays. She is spending so much time on this project that she is neglecting her family, specifically her thirteen-year-old daughter.

Ivy Bohn's husband, Rob, decided he wanted to be free of responsibility last Christmas and left Ivy with two small children. Ivy looks like the picture-perfect mom, always dressed to the nines with hair just so and nails polished. But she is far from that. She is struggling daily with trying to make it alone and harbors very ill feelings for Rob. He's holding up his end of the divorce: taking the children every other weekend and is always on time with child support, but he isn't there to do the little things that Ivy finds difficult to do alone.

Tilda Morrison is a police woman in Icicle Falls. She's single, but really wants to find the right man and settle down, have children, and enjoy life. If she can't find the right man, at least she can buy her own house, which she does, on Candy Cane Lane. The house is a good buy, but needs a lot of TLC. She's ready to take on the responsibility, even if she's alone in doing it. But bad body Devon Black has other ideas.

When Maddy's yard, along with several others on Candy Cane Lane, is vandalized, she goes into a tailspin and demands that Tilda catch the person responsible. Maddy's even more furious when their yards are vandalized a second and third time. What does someone have against candy canes? Could the perpetrator be closer than anyone knows?

CHRISTMAS ON CANDY CANE LANE is another installment in Sheila Roberts' Life in Icicle Falls series. This is such a charming place any time of year, but especially at Christmas. Ms. Roberts brings this picturesque Bavarian town to life with her description of the countryside as well as the quaint shops in town. Her characters are genuine, sincere and original, if not a little eccentric. There are several subplots woven throughout the storyline that lend depth to the novel. You'll fall in love with both the town and the characters. Put this one on your reading list for good Christmas-themed novels this year.

Book Summary

Icicle Falls is the place to be at Christmas…

Everyone's getting ready for Christmas in Icicle Falls, especially on Candy Cane Lane, where holiday decorating is taken very seriously. Tilda Morrison, town cop, is looking forward to celebrating Christmas in her first house…until she discovers that she's expected to "keep up" with the neighbors, including Maddy Donaldson, the inspiration behind the whole extravaganza. But this year, someone's destroying Maddie's precious candy canes! Thank goodness for the cop in their neighborhood.

Tilda already has her hands full trying to sort out her love life and fix up her fixer-upper. Oh, and won't it be fun to have the family over for Christmas dinner? Not really… Then there's her neighbor, Ivy Bohn. As a newly single mom, Ivy can sum up the holiday in two words: Bah, humbug. But she's determined to give her kids a perfect Christmas.

Despite family disasters, irritating ex-husbands and kitchen catastrophes, these three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year!

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