It just might take the whole team to make it happen.ĭearest Malachi Keogh is a 13,000-word short story.Malachi Keogh finds himself in a job he neither wanted nor asked for when his father, boss of Sydney’s postal service, sends him to the end of the business line, aka The Dead Letter Office. The only problem is, Christmas at a mail distribution centre is the busiest time of the year. Now together for four years, Julian wants to give Malachi a Christmas he’ll never forget. Julian had forgotten how to live, how to be happy, and Malachi changed all that. Well, maybe it wasn’t love at first sight, but it sure was something. Julian Pollard never believed in love at first sight. You can’t go about swiping other peoples cats but still…. Leaving that neighbors cat behind bothered me and this was a great solution. There’s got to be some missing invitations tie in.Īnd yes to the author for that rescue cat. Although NR Walker shouldn’t be surprised if people start crying out for Malachi and Julian’s wedding. Read the first? Then you’ll love this! It’s the HEA you’ve been waiting for. Haven’t read that one? You’re in for a huge treat! Grab up both stories and read one right after the other. It’s really not a standalone story but needs to be read in tandem with the first I’ve referenced throughout this review.

This was a lovely, happy, wonderful and, yes, sexy, Christmas sequel to a amazing contemporary romance. “Merry Christmas, my love” is sigh worthy. I wanted more, something longer, but it certainly was deeply heartfelt. And I feel we had just gotten started before it was over. I remember all those Dearest Milton James, as will anyone who read that story and the effect they had on me as well as the characters who read them. My only thoughts here are that I wish the author had somehow utilized the whole Dearest Malachi to even greater effect. What we get is a beautiful blend of emotions, poetry, mystery, and joint efforts by everyone! All towards one romantic goal for Malachi and Julian. Once more the use of a letter mystery is employed here, this time by Julian himself. What a great lot they are! The more I see of them the more of them I want to see! Love each and every one!

That story is easily in my top ten contemporary romances this year, maybe top five as it ticks so many of my emotional narrative boxes.ĭearest Malachi Keogh picks up four years later with Julian Pollard and Malachi Keogh a happily established couple, living together with a rescue cat, and with families content with their relationship.Īlso back and intact is our quirky, deeply endearing ,or in Paul’s case weirdly fascinating, small family like staff at the Dead Letters Department at the Mail Office. Dearest Malachi Keogh is a wonderful, romantic Christmas sequel to that incredible heartwarming novel Dearest Milton James.

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