Summerfield's Angel

4.5What a difference 100 + years can makeThis story was surprisingly delightful for me in part because it takes place in NYC, largely in and around streets I walk everyday as a matter of course. Sweet. This is the second book in this series and while you don't need to read the first one it would give you an origin story for the matchmaking, redheaded, sometimes mischievous angel. Alby is a son of Five Points who at a young age was torn from his family and sent west where he became a Nebraska farmhand. He's come back looking for the family he left behind but after seventeen years he's a stranger in his hometown. He's a cowboy and sticks out like a sore thumb: it's December, it's cold, and Alby has very few funds. Fortuitously he stops to admire an angel ornament in a department store Christmas window and meets his own angel.Xeno is the a son of monied New York society, a bit of an aesthete, and wholly comfortable in his own skin. He meets Alby, and meets Alby, and meets him again. Luckily they both take the hint and a heartwarming romance grows between these two well matched MC.I loved the pacing, the dose of reality, and hopeful, firmly HEA, plausible ending. I did the AB too. On n the strength of this story and [b:Frog 13563087 Frog Mary Calmes https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1332881683l/13563087.SX50.jpg 19139126] I'd say that [a:K.C Kelly 16492680 K.C Kelly https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] is a required narrator if one of your main MC is a gentle cowboy. Beautiful.