Excerpt from A Winter Wonderland

📚🎄Ready for a fun holiday excerpt from A Winter Wonderland? 🎄📚

This holiday novella features a broken-down car, an incoming storm, a hot tow truck driver, and a...fruitcake.

In this excerpt, you'll get a peek at Jace, Selena and the mysterious fruitcake!
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Selena tore through the tape and opened the unmarked brown box. Inside was a round tin with a Christmas wreath on the lid. Four travel-size bottles of booze were packed in next to it. On top was a blank white card. She glanced up at Jace, and he raised his eyebrows.

“Come on,” he said. “You’re killing me.”

She waggled her eyebrows and turned over the card in slow motion. Jace groaned.

“Enjoy the magic of Christmas and prepare to fall in love,” she read. “The note is unsigned. Just those words and a web address from the USA Times.”

She set down the card and lifted the tin out of the box. Then she picked up one of the travel-size bottles with a laugh. “An anonymous gift of Wild Turkey? What the hell kind of Secret Santa is this?”

“A damn good one,” he said. “Open the tin.”

She had forgotten how impatient he could get. She looked up at him innocently and batted her eyelashes.

“This tin?” she asked, pointing into the box at the remaining item. She gave him a wide-eyed look, stalling. “You want me to open it?”

“Open it, Lee.”

She stilled. Lee. The nickname he used to use. He was standing close, dressed in his old football sweatshirt, calling her Lee. Her heart surged and her chest tightened, as she fought the warm flood of memories. Selena bit her lip and opened the lid, and the smell of whiskey filled the room.

Inside the tin was a fruitcake. An alcohol-laden one, clearly.

Selena burst into laughter.

“A fruitcake?” she managed between snorts.

“Who sends a fruitcake?”

She looked up at Jace, and he was smiling, his eyebrows raised.

“What?”

“You got one of them.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You got one of the Delilah’s Cove fruitcakes.” He bent over it and took a whiff. “You didn’t hear about this?”

She shook her head.

He picked up the card and pointed at the web address. “I didn’t know anything about it until the USA Times ran an article on it early last month. It’s all very secretive. No one knows who makes them or who will get them.”

Selena took the card from him and studied it. The magic of Christmas? Fall in love? She wrinkled her nose and studied it. “I’m just supposed to ignore the fact that it’s crazy to eat it an unidentified fruitcake that shows up in my mailbox?”

Jace shrugged. “Someone baked a cake, added Wild Turkey, bought four more little bottles to throw in the box, wrote a card and paid to send it to you. If it’s a hoax, it’s pretty damn elaborate.”

Selena furrowed her brow. “I still think it’s a little nutty.”

Jace laughed. “Are you making bad fruitcake jokes?”

“Evidently,” she groaned.

They both stared at the fruitcake on top of the island. The rain whipped and pounded on the windows, cutting through the silence of the kitchen.

“Go for it, Selena. You know you want to open up the Wild Turkey.”
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