Linda Rettstatt

Falling for Mr. Christmas Linda Rettstatt

Cassidy Milford is heading to a holiday reunion with high school friends when she's caught in a blizzard. She gets off the highway, heading down a side road into Falls Village where she might find shelter for the night. But it's Christmas Eve. She finds the houses deserted and everyone gathered at the church for services and a Christmas pageant. Blake Hargrove steps into his father's role as Santa Claus after his sister rushes with their father to the hospital fifteen miles away for emergency surgery. Blake stays behind to babysit his five-year-old niece, Lacey. He's waiting for his cue in the church vestibule when a woman stumbles in, covered in snow and bedraggled, making enough noise to raise the dead. At the social after the pageant, Blake learns Cass walked over a mile from where she had to abandon her car on Falls Road. With no room at the only local B& B, Blake offers her shelter at his sister's house. Cassidy has never been one to believe in fate or love at first sight. Blake closed his heart after his fiancee walked away while he was deployed in Iraq two years earlier. Falls Village is a magical place at Christmastime, and miracles do happen, even if you're not sure you believe.