Free Download | A Christmas Caroline | Kyle Smith Novel


Caroline is a perfect size 0 with the best blond hair money can buy, a wit as sharp as her stilettos, and a job at the center of the fashion universe: she's the accessories editor for a shopping magazine. Every day Gucci and Hermès send her their latest items, free, begging her to try them. Which is why Christmas, to Caroline, is such a bore: not only does she keep getting accosted by creepy sidewalk Santas and bombarded by kitschy holiday tunes, but it's the one day when everyone else gets presents.  This Christmas Eve, she's stuck in Manhattan, embarrassingly boyfriendless, while her fabulous designer mother jets off to a mysterious place called Branson. But things are about to get even worse, thanks to a hideous pair of furry boots, a conniving redheaded assistant named Ursula Heep, and a totally random visit from the ghost of her ex-roommate, Carly. Carly's ghost warns that three more spirits are on the way. If Caroline doesn't make things right with all the people she's sneered at on her way to the top, she could wind up facing a fate worse than an outfit from the Salvation Army.  The Devil Wears Prada meets Charles Dickens in this holiday treat—a hilariously hip, delightfully irreverent take on a classic tale. 

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Caroline is fashinanable, self aware and so shallow that it boggles the imagination. She is the queen of her own little universe, quick to judge, to scold and to cast off anyting and anyone that dares not meet her high, high standards. Boyfriends are cataloged and nicknamed, friends reduced to their abilities to help her or furthar her needs and she cannot imagine why her psychiatrist is fed up with Caroline's myopic view of the world around her. After all, Caroline learned these standards at the knee of her mother, the fabulous La, a world famous wedding dress designer. As acessory editor of Presents magazine (tag line, "the gifts you give yourself") Caroline has access to the best of everything ahead of the trend and no qualms about using her connections to aquire them for her own use. The approach of the Christmas season has Caroline in a funk. The holidays seem to unnesessarily divert the world's attention from her fabulousness. All that goodwill does not even touch Caroline when her mother tells her that the family Christmas (with her almost step-father..oh joy) will be held in Branson, Missouri of all places! Obviously, Branson isn't a place someone of her class should do Christmas, or anything else! Deciding to go to her office Christmas Eve to retrieve all her goodies from advertisers Caroline sets off a chain of events thst introduce her to the new managing editor of Presents after she "accidently" sets a coworker's sweater on fire. A chain of events that leave her fired and about to be plowed down by a speeding car as she mindlessly exits her office building.