Making Christmas
by Patricia McLinn
The Accidental NoelThis wasn't the Christmas either Kiernan or Bexley expected. Snowbound in a shoddy convenience store with the least hospitable storekeeper in the state of Wyoming, two other stranded travelers, four kids forgotten by Santa – oh, yes, and each other.Because there was that thing that happened last summer. A mistake. They both thought that... though for different reasons. And agreeing it was a mistake didn't make it any more comfortable to run into each other at the ranch of their mutual friends, the Curricks of the Slash-C Ranch. Especially when those same friends suggest, nudge, and push them into traveling East together to join their respective families for Christmas by spending eighteen hours in a car together.Except they never made it out of Wyoming, thanks to an early-arriving blizzard.And now their choice is to have one of the least festive Christmases on record or work with what they have and each other to...