I love Shari Low and have read a few of her "one day" books, so I was excited when I saw she had a Christmas one! It was extra exciting because it was available for free on Amazon through Prime Reading. Low's books tend to follow the same pattern where over the course of one day, through chapters with alternating narrators, a beautiful story unfolds. This book does follow that pattern, but with a twist, instead of taking place over one day, it takes place over three days, decades apart.

The story starts with Christmas Eve 2023, when granddaughter, Eve, helps her grandmother, Cathy move into a new apartment. Meanwhile, she also debates her relationship with her friend with benefits and grapples with the shocking information that her father is not actually her biological father!

On Christmas Eve 1993, Helena learns that her boyfriend is going to propose, that he has been cheating on her for their entire relationship, and that he is really only using her to get a job in her father's law practice. She makes a choice to get back at him that ends up changing her life forever.

On Christmas Eve 1968, Cathy's high school sweetheart walks back into her life on the day she gives birth to her daughter, Helena, a child she has conceived with her husband who is out of town.

All three stories merge into one when all three women put together pieces of a puzzle they didn't know existed on Christmas Eve 2023. One Christmas Eve is a story about true love, the decisions we make when we are in love, and following your heart. It is also a Christmas tale of course, with plenty of Christmas magic and joyful celebrations, as well as interesting mishaps and rom-com silliness. If you asked me what Rom-Com needed to be turned into a Christmas Movie, it is definitely this one!