Originally in Mistletoe & Kisses anthology. This is the full version with 16,500 more words added.
*If you love Hallmark Christmas Movies and steamy romance novels then this is the perfect holiday read for you!!*
Callie Greenwood’s life has never been easy. Her father up and left when she was six and her mother passed away from breast cancer when she was just thirteen, leaving her grandparents to raise her. But since her grandfather passed away and her grandmother was put into a nursing home, she’s been on her own.
Desperate for love, Callie foolishly settled for the cliché bad boy, thinking he would change his ways for her. Sadly, she learns the hard way that life doesn’t care how bad you have it, and that you can’t make someone love you. When Callie needs Jase the most he abandons her, just like her father did sixteen years ago.
Determined to not spend the holidays alone, Callie decides to spend the holidays at her Aunt Ella's bed and breakfast in Lake George, New York.
Little does she know that everything for her will change when she checks in to the quaint town at Christmas. Callie expected to spend two weeks sipping cocoa by the fire place, listening to Bing Crosby and spending time with her Aunt. The last she ever expected was to meet the handsome but mysterious Brody O’Reilly...
This Christmas heartbreak, secrets, and romance will collide making it a holiday she’ll not soon forget.
I HEART BOOKS REVIEW
Review by Theresa Esterline
Stars: 5
Find your kryptonite this Christmas, Brody did!
OMG what an awesome Christmas story!! A great happy ever after story that will tug at your heart strings, have you laughing out loud, wanting to strangle the characters when they just won't open up, and of course wanting to kick the bad guy in the balls! Also if you have young kids you will fall in love with Corbin and be able to relate to all of his favorite shows! And now a bit about the story...
Callie has lost almost everyone close to her. All she has left is her grandmother who took over raising her when her mother died and her aunt who isn't that much older. She has survived though, she got her cosmetology license and is supporting herself. They when she finds out she has accidentally gotten pregnant by her on again off again boyfriend her whole world turns upside down. Trying to escape his lying and cheating ways she decides to visit her Aunt Ella for Christmas where she gets the 2nd best present ever!
Favorite passages:
- “Oh, he has the face of an angel, but don’t underestimate him. He hides his little devil horns well.”
- I love a girl with a little meat on her bones. Who wants to snuggle up with a skeleton?”
- “I’m so sorry, Brody. I won’t bullshit you and feed you a line about how it will get easier, because I know it won’t. You don’t get over losing someone you love. You just learn to live through the pain every day as you try to have some kind of normalcy in your life.”
- If she doesn’t keep her distance, then I’m screwed, because there is one thing I know for certain, and that is Callie is to me what Kryptonite is to Superman: the one thing that can destroy me.
- Goodbye, 2014. You’ve been a real kick in my lady balls; I definitely will not miss you. Hello, 2015, the year of success and new adventures.
- “You sat around this fucking place moping like a damn child for the last six days. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re having your goddam man-period right now.”
- “The unknown terrifies me, but you’re worth it.”
OMG what an awesome Christmas story!! A great happy ever after story that will tug at your heart strings, have you laughing out loud, wanting to strangle the characters when they just won't open up, and of course wanting to kick the bad guy in the balls! Also if you have young kids you will fall in love with Corbin and be able to relate to all of his favorite shows! And now a bit about the story...
Callie has lost almost everyone close to her. All she has left is her grandmother who took over raising her when her mother died and her aunt who isn't that much older. She has survived though, she got her cosmetology license and is supporting herself. They when she finds out she has accidentally gotten pregnant by her on again off again boyfriend her whole world turns upside down. Trying to escape his lying and cheating ways she decides to visit her Aunt Ella for Christmas where she gets the 2nd best present ever!
Favorite passages:
- “Oh, he has the face of an angel, but don’t underestimate him. He hides his little devil horns well.”
- I love a girl with a little meat on her bones. Who wants to snuggle up with a skeleton?”
- “I’m so sorry, Brody. I won’t bullshit you and feed you a line about how it will get easier, because I know it won’t. You don’t get over losing someone you love. You just learn to live through the pain every day as you try to have some kind of normalcy in your life.”
- If she doesn’t keep her distance, then I’m screwed, because there is one thing I know for certain, and that is Callie is to me what Kryptonite is to Superman: the one thing that can destroy me.
- Goodbye, 2014. You’ve been a real kick in my lady balls; I definitely will not miss you. Hello, 2015, the year of success and new adventures.
- “You sat around this fucking place moping like a damn child for the last six days. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re having your goddam man-period right now.”
- “The unknown terrifies me, but you’re worth it.”
Amazon Bestselling Author and a mother of 3 wonderful kids. Madison 11 Bailey 7 and Finn 3. I run a successful online boutique, Bailey Booper’s Boutique; many of my items featured on Teen Mom 2.
I live in a small town in NY with my husband of 11 years, enjoying my happily ever after. My perfect day is spending time at the beach, I love the Ocean. I’m an outdoorsy type of girl; every chance I get I’m outside walking or running around with my kids.
I have been writing for as long as I can remember but I finally decide to pursue my dreams of sharing my stories with the world when I published my first Novel Irresistible Desire back in March 2013.
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