SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: This book is worth reading for all the emotions it invokes and the beautiful ending. I give it 5 STARS.

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The Christmas Ring
A Holiday Romance
by Karen Kingsbury

Pub Date Oct 21 2025
Thomas Nelson Fiction

DESCRIPTION

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

While searching for her family’s long-lost heirloom ring, military widow Vanessa Mayfield meets handsome antique dealer Ben Miller. The two are drawn to each other and forge a friendship that soon becomes a deep and breathtaking romance. But neither are sure that what they’ve found can last.

As Vanessa organizes her annual Columbus Cares Christmas Military Dance, she looks forward to her daughter’s return from college. But Vanessa hasn’t told Sadie about Ben. After all, Vanessa hadn’t anticipated finding love again after losing her husband. And now she wrestles with feelings that are becoming hard to ignore.

Just as Ben is about to declare his love for Vanessa, he learns more about her missing Christmas ring: her great grandfather found it in France on D-Day, and engraved on the band is a single meaningful word. The details confirm a terrible truth, one that Ben cannot ignore.

Certain he now knows where Vanessa’s ring is, Ben leaves town in a frantic rush. But can he stop a certain sale, or will Vanessa’s ring be lost forever? Days before Christmas, when all seems hopeless, Ben and Vanessa learn an important eternal truth: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

REVIEW

There is so much about this book that I loved from the dramatic D-Day, 6 June 1944, opening that set up the storyline to the heartbreaking growth widow Vanessa and her daughter, Sadie, go through after the loss of Alan.

Readers will relate to Vanessa’s pain at the loss of her loving husband, her fairy book life, and the abrupt ending to her life as she knew it or thought it would be. There are parallels in this story that all people can relate to in their own lives.

Author Karen Kingsbury does feelings and interpersonal relationships with finesse invoking deep emotions and many tears. Her characters are fully developed and realistic. Ben Miller, the handsome and wholesome antique dealer, is easy to instantly connect to and get a sense of who he is. While Sadie, as the youngest in the book came across age appropriate for her part in the book.

This book is worth reading for all the emotions it invokes and the beautiful ending. I give it 5 STARS.

I received this book for free from Netgalley and Thomas Nelson Fiction in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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