Sucking in a breath, I shifted the giant-and way too jolly-blow-up Santa Claus decoration a few inches to the left. The last thing my family needed was another death this holiday season. My stomach lurched and I gripped the top rung with shaky fingers. I wobbled on the way-too-high-up step of the metal ladder planted on the sidewalk in downtown Blue Moon Bay. It’s not my fault this Santa weighs a ton.
They do say that homicide increases around the holidays." "I don’t want to make assumptions, Anna, but are you trying to kill Santa? Kari cocked her head to the right and batted her dark eyelashes at me. Tradition had been my dad’s middle name and we’d always decked his store with the same beautiful decorations for Christmas. If I could sit on Santa’s lap and whisper my Christmas wish into his ear, I’d ask him to turn the clock back a year-or even a month to when my dad was still alive. Will Peter discover the truth about Anna and walk away from her? Or will the magic of Christmas give them both the best gift of all: love? Read more
As their relationship blossoms, Anna worries he'll learn her initial motivation for spending time with him was to help her family's business. In fact, his enthusiasm and warmth soon has Anna falling head over heels for him. And she has to admit the changes he makes to the Christmas lighting ceremony are positively delightful. Spending time with Peter gives Anna the first feelings of comfort and joy since her dad passed. When Anna discovers Peter is the buyer who made an offer on the Main Street Mini-Mart, she's determined to convince him that keeping with tradition is the way to go so he doesn't make changes to all her dad built with such love and care. Impetuous and optimistic Peter Locke is known as the new billionaire in town who is buying up failing businesses, presumably to inject them with "new life" and turn them around for a quick profit. But with all of the debt and bill collectors her dad accumulated before his passing, she's aware her mom may have to sell to the buyer who has just made an offer. This holiday season, practical and rational Anna Bell will do anything to save her family's mini-mart from going under in her small beach town known for its traditions. Forced to sell her family store in Blue Moon Bay, all Anna Bell wants is to convince buyer billionaire Peter Locke that tradition is better than change, but the magic of Christmas just might give them both the best gift of all: love.
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