The Christmas Bride

by Grace Livingston Hill

Book Overview

When Gregory Sterling saves Margaret's life, they become bound together by love. Then Margaret mysteriously disappears. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842303685
• ISBN13: 9780842303682
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One Of Her Best!

lovely, tender romance

this was another wonderful book by Grace Livingston Hill. a man saves a poor girl's life, cares for her in the hospital all the time she is ill, then loses her. he looks for her high and low and when he finds her he treats her like a princess. in the process he finds God and salvation. the story also take place in Christmas. what more can one whant?

Love in time for Christmas

Greg Sterling has struggled for years trying to raise cattle on his western land. When oil is discovered on his land, he is instantly rich! He returns east, hoping to see his old friends, and the old home where he lived before his mother died. Instead, he finds his old home is run down, and his friends have grown shallow and selfish. As Greg looks out of his third floor luxury hotel room contemplating life's sadness, he sees a young woman faint and fall to the ground from her park bench. Greg rushes to help her, and takes her to the hospital. They learn that young Margaret McLaren is a poor penniless girl who has starved herself into exhaustion, trying to earn money to send home to her beloved grandparents who are just about to lose their farm. Greg is much taken with this young woman, and arranges to pay all of her hospital bills, and to have her hospital room set up as a memorial in honor of his mother, as a free room for poor strangers. When the head nurse learns that a stranger has paid for Margaret's bills, she accuses Margaret of improper behavior. Margaret, still not well, flees the hospital. Margaret has no place to stay, and no money. She manages to find a poor job that first day addressing envelopes, and catnaps in the train station, moving around several times during the night so as not to be caught as a vagrant. She eats soup or coffee, rarely both, and manages to keep going for several more days. In the meantime, Greg learns what the head nurse has done, and is frantic to find Margaret. He meets a friend who shows him all that Jesus has done for him, and he gives his heart to God. He then determines to set up a small business dedicated to helping people learn of God, and determines that Margaret is just the young woman to work as his secretary -- if he can find her. Does he find her? And do her impoverished grandparents get to keep their farm? I really, really enjoyed this book. I prefer GLH books with poor heroines who struggle against the odds, and this is such a story. I wish it had spent more time describing Margaret's days of struggle after leaving the hospital, instead it spent more on Greg's journey to find her. I enjoyed the homelike description of the grandparents' farm, even to the simple meals they ate. The ending was too fairy-tale-like to be believable, but still it was sweet. I have added this book to my permanent collection as one of my favorite GLH books.

Christmas Bride

This book is so sweet and so romantic! I bought 10 of them for Christmas gifts! Anything by Grace Livingston Hill is a must read.

An excellent book by a great author.

When Greg Sterling returns to his home town, he finds the second love of his life - he had just found the first on his return when a new friend introduced him to our Lord. Amazingly his second love is a Christian as well and after a period of trials, they find a unique love blessed by the Lord. I've probably read this book at least a dozen times. It's one of my favorites by this great author.

Romance with spiritual content all ages above 12 will enjoy.

Young man leaves home to find his place in the world, only to return and find it in his home townWishes to find a girl with spiritual qualities, thinking that maybe he will in an "old flame" from his past Finds the girl whom he wishes to marry and loses her for a time only to find her again and the family with whom he would like to belong The story of romance of the young and the contented story of the twilight years of what faith and love of God helps us through this life on earth and its hardships