Holiday Proposal

Holiday Proposal is a romance novel by the American writer Kimberly Rose Johnson, published in 2014 by Harlequin. It is a contemporary romance with a Christian element.

Holly is a new nurse who has finished her training and who carries the memory of a mistake she made years earlier, which is the reason she keeps her attention fixed on her work and refuses to take on anything else. Matthew Cook runs a bakery, went to the same high school as Holly, and remembers her when she did not notice him at the time, and the novel follows their cautious approach to one another around her shifts and his early starts. The festival season provides the setting and the social occasions, as it does in the holiday romances the line was built around, and the obstacle is Holly's conviction that she is not entitled to a life outside the hospital. Johnson writes for readers who want the characters' faith to be part of their decision-making, and the ending is domestic rather than dramatic.

The book belongs to the category romance market, where novels of this length are published on a monthly schedule and the season and setting are part of the promise to the reader.