Chicago Hope (Holiday Reading Selection)

Name: Chicago Hope (Holiday Reading Selection)
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Rating: 4.5 (381 reviews)
Author: Carmen DeSousa

by Carmen DeSousa

Contemporary Fiction Romance

4.5 (381)

4.5 stars from 381 reviews

Published by Independently PublishedPublished 2020-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You're drawn to Hallmark-style romance with real stakes: a single mum trying to build something meaningful whilst navigating Chicago and unexpected love.
You want a feel-good story about journalism and restoring hope to your community, not just a love story on its own.
You appreciate fast-paced reads that balance career ambition, motherhood, and romance without veering into melodrama.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer darker, morally complex characters. Maura and Rick are fundamentally good people wrestling with honest dilemmas, not antiheroes.
You're looking for a slow-burn, literary exploration of relationships. This one moves briskly and wraps up its emotional threads by Christmas.
You want substantive workplace politics or detailed journalism craft. The media company backdrop is more thematic than technical.

About this book

Aspiring journalist Maura Hall moves from rural North Carolina to Chicago with her eight-year-old son, hoping to build a better life and advance her career. After three years of struggling to get her work published, she finds herself working two jobs and editing others' work instead of writing her own stories. When Rick Figueroa, a smart and supportive colleague, proposes launching a "Dear Santa" project together to bring hope and Christmas cheer to children, Maura sees an opportunity. As her feelings for Rick grow, so do her doubts about who he really is and what his true intentions might be. Maura faces a difficult choice between pursuing love, advancing her career, and doing what she believes is right—all before Christmas arrives.

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