Family in a Snowstorm: Snow Globes, #2

By Ava Kelly

Last Christmas, Daniel Wu found a place to call home with Jeff and his adopted daughter Abby. A year later, they confirm his place in their family with a surprising and warm gift. However, when Abby's biological father returns making demands, Daniel's happiness is threatened.

With the worsening weather, a much more urgent problem arises when Abby goes missing. Will Daniel and Jeff be able to find her before the storm sets in, and will they manage to keep their small family intact?

• Language: English
• Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
• Release date: Dec 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949909586

Ava Kelly

Ava Kelly is an engineer with a deep passion for stories. Whether reading, watching, or writing them, Ava has always been surrounded by tales of all genres. Their goal is to bring more stories to life, especially those of friendship, compassion, understanding, and comfort.

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Family in a Snowstorm

Copyright © 2018 by Ava Kelly

Cover Art by Natasha Snow Copyright © 2018

Edited by Elizabetta McKay

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Printed in the USA

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December, 2018

eBook ISBN: 978-1-949909-58-6

Family in a Snowstorm

A Snow Globes Romance

Ava Kelly

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Dedication

Family in a Snowstorm

About the Author

To my very supportive friends and readers, Happy Holidays of your choice!

THE CLASSROOM WAS quiet, only the lingering memory of children’s laughter permeating the space. Daniel closed his laptop and stood from his desk for a long stretch. Air rushed out of him in a contented exhale. Another year had passed, another winter vacation waiting around the corner. The day had been sunny and bright, with a crisp edge of chilled air typical for December among the foothills of the mountains.

He checked his watch. Half an hour before Jeff and Abby were supposed to pick him up. He smiled with the recollection of a similar day the year prior as he righted the classroom. Some things were different this time around. He had a warm home to look forward to, and he’d taken care of all his holiday work already. Instead of Abby waiting for him, he was waiting for his two favorite people. Abby had been excited about something for the past week, Jeff declaring a surprise was coming, so Daniel had been quite motivated to finish all his reports and head home. He huffed a small laugh as he packed his laptop. A sense of childish giddiness had settled in his bones while he wondered what the two had planned.

Coat on and bag slung over his shoulder, he stopped next to the student desk closest to his own and ran his fingers over the indent in the side. Abby had had to be transferred to Ms. Evelyn’s classroom, and Daniel was sure she would’ve kicked up a fuss if it weren’t for the time they still spent together. Every day after school, Abby sat right there, at that desk, doing homework while Daniel graded projects or prepared for his next-day lessons.

It hadn’t been smooth, exactly, accommodating to the new life, but it had been very, very far away from hardship. He felt so lucky, sometimes, that he feared—

Mister Wu, how do you do?

Startled, Daniel looked up to see Amber in the doorway with an impish look on her face.

How does Your Ladyship do, he teased back. It had been Amber’s go-to joke ever since she witnessed the kids making the rhyme with his name in class.

The Webers have been standing in the parking lot for the past five minutes, she informed him, a smirk pulling at the side of