A Yukon Christmas

By Marcelle Dube

A short romantic Christmas story by the author of Running Away from Christmas.

After her 20-year marriage collapses from inertia, Beatrice Talsma sets off on a year-long, cross-Canada journey to discover where she truly belongs. When she reaches the Yukon, however, her short pause turns into a decision to settle down in this strange new place.

In a complete break with the past, she rents out a cabin in the Yukon wilderness. It's a wonderful spot, except that her closest neighbor, Henry Pekarik, also her landlord, seems determined to help Beatrice out, whether she wants it or not. It's becoming harder and harder to resist the man but the real test comes when he invites her to Christmas dinner with his family.

About Marcelle Dubé:
A Yukon Christmas is Marcelle Dubé's third yearly short story featuring romance and Christmas. She is the author of the Mendenhall Mystery series and her fiction titles also include standalone fantasy novels Backli's Ford, Jilimar, Kirwan's Son and Obeah. Learn more about her and her published work at www.marcellemdube.com.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Ridge Publishing
• Release date: Nov 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9780993666865

Marcelle Dube

Marcelle Dubé writes mystery, science fiction, fantasy, contemporary and—occasionally—romance fiction. She grew up near Montreal and after trying out a number of different provinces (not to mention Belgium) she settled in the Yukon, where people outnumber carnivores, but not by much. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and award-winning anthologies. Her novels include the Mendenhall Mystery series (a number of her short stories are also set in the world of Mendenhall Chief of Police Kate Williams) and The A'lle Chronicles, as well as standalone fantasy and mystery titles. Her work is available in print and in electronic format. To find out more about Marcelle, visit her at www.marcellemdube.com.  

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A YUKON CHRISTMAS

Marcelle Dubé

Falcon Ridge Publishing

A Yukon Christmas copyright © 2014 by Marcelle Dubé

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Cover design copyright © 2014 by Marcelle Dubé

and Falcon Ridge Publishing.

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction, in whole or in part in any form. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A YUKON CHRISTMAS

By Marcelle Dubé

Beatrice stood on the small wooden stoop of her cabin and took a deep breath of cold Yukon air. It smelled of wood smoke and freshly split logs. She automatically glanced at the pile of neatly stacked logs protected from the snow by the lean-to and satisfaction thrummed through her. She had stacked that wood, all four cords of it.

Well, most of it. She had arrived from Whitehorse one day, a few weeks after she had moved in, to find that the woodcutter had delivered the wood in a huge, haphazard pile that had spilled over onto her driveway. It was only once she’d gotten out of the car and rounded the wood pile that she had seen her landlord and neighbor, Henry Pekarik, calmly stacking her wood under her lean-to.

What are you doing? she asked sharply.

Henry straightened, a look halfway between surprise and alarm on his craggy face.

Trying to clear your driveway before you got home, he said calmly. His cheeks were ruddy with cold and his gray woolen sweater was covered in bark. He had already filled a snug