Blessings of the Season
The Holiday Husband\The Christmas Letter
The first time Addie McCoy saw Nathan Browder, he was in children's pajamas.
Not wearing them—standing in the middle of a display of them in Goodwin's Department Store. Even if they hadn't been the only two people on the second floor of the aging Star City, Tennessee, landmark store, she'd have noticed him. With his shaggy brown hair, dazzling white teeth flashing against his tanned skin and wearing a royal-blue Hawaiian shirt with gray palm trees against yellow moons, the man stood out.
Having grown up the only child of Bivvy McCoy, sometimes known as the 'Crazy Christmas Lady' for her over-the-top holiday displays in their small Smoky Mountain tourist town, Addie McCoy believed that standing out was vastly overrated. In fact, she went to great lengths to avoid it.
She sighed and looked at the man so totally relaxed even though he was so totally out of place in the dusty old store with dated blue ornaments, sparkly silver snowflakes and bell-shaped mistletoe with pink velvet bows suspended from the ceiling. "Excuse me, sir, but I need to get by you."
He jerked hi ... read full excerpt from: Blessings of the Season ebook
