The Brightest Star, Fern Michaels
The Brightest Star, Fern Michaels
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The Brightest Star

Author: Fern Michaels

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/29/2020

Categories: Fiction, Romance


Synopsis

A special treat to warm your heart, just in time for the holidays—a sparkling
new novel from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. …

Christmas is more than just a celebration for Lauren Montgomery. For
generations, it’s been her family’s livelihood. Their Christmas shop, Razzle Dazzle
Décor, has seen seasonal fads come and go, but there’s one trend they can’t escape.
Online superstores are swallowing their sales, and this Christmas season will need to
be their best ever if the store is to stay in business.

To help keep the shop afloat, Lauren also has a sideline, writing biographies
for business figures. She’s thrilled when her literary agent contacts her with a new
proposal and quickly agrees to the terms—before learning that the subject will be
none other than John Gerald Giompalo. He’s the titan behind Globalgoods.com,
the online retailer that has spelled doom for hundreds of small businesses just like
Razzle Dazzle Décor. Despite her misgivings, Lauren travels to Seattle to confer with
the mogul, and is caught off guard when his son, John Jr., attends the meeting too.
Handsome, intelligent, and deeply kind, he’s perfect—apart from the fact that he’ll
soon be CEO of the company threatening everything Lauren loves.

As her deadline, and Christmas, draw closer, Lauren knows that there’s more
than her family’s shop at stake. Her heart is, too. But there’s no better time than the
holidays to make a secret wish on the brightest star you see—and let the season’s
magic take hold …

About Fern Michaels

Self-described as someone who can scribble notes and tell great stories, author Fern Michaels, aka Mary Ruth Kuczkir, is a very prolific writer having written 147 books, with 90 being on the New York Times best sellers list. She was born in Pennsylvania, coming into this world as "a dinky little thing", as her father called her. She spent the early part of her adult life becoming a wife and mother of five children. After her children were grown, she separated from her husband, who was a very negative person, and began putting pen to paper to begin her writing career. She had always loved books, and writing one seemed to be the best chance for her to make her own way through the rest of her life. Her first manuscript was not published, but the second attempt was, and so began her illustrious career.

Her successful career allowed her to put all five children through college, on her own, which she claims is one of her most proud accomplishments. She says that when all is considered, family is the most important thing. Fern also bought a beautiful old (300 year old) plantation in South Carolina, where she still lives today. Her grandmother gave her very sage advice many years ago, which she lives by today.......when God is good to you, you have to give back. She developed the Fern Michaels Foundation which grants four scholarships to deserving students. She also opened a pre-school and day care center for single moms who are having a hard time supporting their family.

The quote that best describes is a Dutch saying.......If you can't whistle on your way to work, you don't belong in that job. She follows by saying, "I whistle all day long".


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on December 16, 2020

This was my first time reading a Fern Michaels novel and I have mixed feelings about The Brightest Star. I can appreciate the fact the entire story didn't revolve around the character's love life. However, the romance was so minimal in this one that I kinda wonder what was the point of even includin......more

Goodreads review by TraceyL on November 07, 2020

This book needed more focus. It started off great. I like the whole small-town-girl-trying-to-save-her-family's-store-during-the-holidays trope. But there were too many side plots going on with other townspeople, and the romance that was thrown in during the last 1/3 of the book was ridiculous. Then......more

Goodreads review by Pam on December 17, 2022

I don’t know what to say. There are so many side stories in the first part of the book. All the stories take some time to develop. The book ends quickly with everything tied up nicely. I believe this would have been better if the author put as much time in the last part of the book as the first.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 30, 2020

There was a beginning to this story, but no middle. All the sudden everything just wrapped up and worked out. Not even much of a love story since the 2 people who fell in love were only in the same place about 7 or 8 times in the whole book and didn't have any conflict at all. Not worth the time.......more

Goodreads review by Angel on December 14, 2020

More a 3.5 I have mixed feelings about this one. The writing was good and I absolutely loved the Christmas spirit portrayed by Lauren but I think it just had too much going on. The beginning started out great and then the story went off on so many tangents I lost a bit of the initial love. The ending......more