Maybe if she said the words slowly, they wouldn’t spin him back up. “I am.” Roxanne drew her response out and bit her lip. He was so spun up he actually looked faint. A shudder passed through his body as he dropped his palm over his heart. “In a log cabin,” he added, stabbing his index finger upward to punctuate each word. She opened her mouth to speak, but Spencer wasn’t finished. Usually, Roxanne enjoyed his dramatic reactions to everyday happenings-so long as they weren’t directed at her. Working in the fashion industry had earned her a closet full of designer labels and, along with them, the kid gloves necessary to handle the drama queens in her life, including Spencer. When Spencer got on a roll, it was best to just let him tire himself out. Roxanne bit her lip and willed herself to stay silent. The look said he hated everything that had just come out of his mouth.ĭon’t encourage him. At the present, he was wearing the most severe of his trademark histrionic faces: upper lip drawn back to expose a row of pearly white teeth, nostrils flared, expertly sculpted eyebrows arched.

The perfection of his coiffed hair and meticulously starched clothes might have given the impression that Spencer Chen was impervious to the indignities of human emotion, but the expression on his face said plainly he was not. Her work bestie slumped dramatically against the high wall of her cubicle, fanning at himself. Spencer’s voice was so thick with sarcasm Roxanne couldn’t decide which part of what he’d said offended him the most. “You’re seriously going to drive all the way to Vermont to spend Christmas with family you haven’t seen in years?” Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo When she’s rescued by Mark Foster, a handsome park ranger who’s the exact opposite of everything she always thought she wanted, Roxanne seeks her grandmother’s wisdom and discovers an uncanny connection that could be a sign of what her life is really meant to be. With her boyfriend out of the country for a photo shoot, Roxanne decides to brave the long commute-and the wilderness-to spend Christmas in Vermont.Īfter an uncomfortable call from her boyfriend starts the trip off badly, Roxanne is blindsided by a blizzard on the snowy mountain road, where the last thing she hears before losing consciousness is sleigh bells. But this Christmas might be Grandma Myrtle’s last, and Roxanne’s parents want her to spend the holiday at the family cabin in the Green Mountains. They come with too many family obligations that take her away from work as a rising fashion editor in New York City.

Roxanne Hudson does not like the holidays. Screenplay by the writer of Rescuing Madison andĪ Lesson in Romance (Hallmark), and the forthcoming Aloha with Love.Ĭhristmas isn’t fashion editor Roxanne Hudson’s style, but when she finds herself snowed in with a handsome stranger, she might just discover the magic of the season after all. Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance

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