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    Christmas Ever After: Kismet Bay
    Christmas Ever After: Kismet Bay
    Christmas Ever After: Kismet Bay
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    Christmas Ever After: Kismet Bay

    By Dawn Brower

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    Ivy Strange had her heart broken by Gabriel Reed years ago. She's never fully recovered and doubts she will ever love another the way she loves him. 

    Gabriel has to deal with a lot of changes in his life after an injury derails his football career. He returns home to find himself again and hopefully renew his relationship with Ivy. It might take a Christmas miracle for them to find their happy-ever-after...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonarchal Glenn Press
    Release dateDec 17, 2019
    ISBN9781393323174
    Christmas Ever After: Kismet Bay

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      Christmas Ever After - Dawn Brower

      Christmas Ever After

      Christmas Ever After

      Kismet Bay Book Eight

      Dawn Brower

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Christmas Ever Afte Copyright © 2019 Dawn Brower

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is give someone a second chance. This is for everyone who took that leap of faith and didn’t regret it.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      About The Author

      Also by Dawn Brower

      Excerpt: Confessions of a Hellion

      Dawn Brower

      Prologue

      Excerpt: Chance of Love

      Prologue

      Excerpt: Diamonds Don’t Cry

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

      A. A. Milne

      Acknowledgments

      Many thanks to Elizabeth Evans. There are no words that I can express on how much your help means to me. Thank you for all you do for me and the wonderful things you helped me bring to the world.

      Chapter 1

      Christmas in Kismet Bay… It should be a wonderful time of the year, but Ivy Strange wasn’t feeling very…jolly. Yes, she wasn’t good ole St. Nick and thank goodness for that, but she usually felt a little joy during Christmas. The annual cocoa crawl was one of her favorite activities. She carefully planned it every year and gathered all the ingredients for Serendipity Lane’s contribution to the fundraising event. Last year the cocoa crawl had led her sister Holly to her one true love.

      That wasn’t going to happen for Ivy. She’d met her true love years ago and he abandoned her when she needed him the most. Their love hadn’t been enough for him. Since he’d left her she’d been bitter regarding anything romantic. There were other things in her life she could count on for happiness. Her family never let her down and she found some bit of contentment in her work.

      Have you purchased all the ingredients for the cocoa? Holly asked.

      Ivy glanced up at her sister and frowned. I thought you were going to do that.

      Holly shook her head and sighed. You’ve been a little out of it lately. What is up with you? She lifted a brow. We discussed this two days ago. I organized the decorations and you were going to take care of the cocoa. I don’t even know everything you put in it. You guard that recipe as if it is gold.

      Holly wasn’t wrong… I’m sorry. I don’t know what is wrong with me lately. Perhaps it was seeing all of her family members find happiness. Even Ophelia found her own slice of love over Thanksgiving. Ivy was the only one alone. She was fated to always be that way too. Nothing would change and she had to accept it. No wonder she was out of it most days. Loneliness wasn’t an easy pill to swallow for anyone, and she’d been feeling empty for years now.

      It’s all right, Holly said. She came over and placed her hand on her shoulder. Will you be able to make it through the cocoa crawl this year or would you like me to handle everything?

      Ivy shook her head. I wouldn’t do that to you. I’ll do my part. She swallowed hard. Somehow she’d find a way to shake the doldrums away. Besides I am the only one that knows the recipe for our special cocoa.

      Holly’s lips quirked upward. Then you better go shopping or we won’t have any cocoa to distribute tomorrow.

      Ivy chuckled and stuck her tongue out. I trust you can handle the store while I’m gone.

      Of course, Holly said nonchalantly. I have done so in the past. Why would that change now?

      That was her sister, cheeky as ever. "I won’t be long, but I doubt I’ll be back before it is time to close for the evening. Feel free to lock up and I’ll let

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