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    Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1
    Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1
    Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1
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    Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1

    By Dawn Brower

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    Welcome to the town of Kismet Bay where magic and fate are a way of life...

    Holly Strange is part of a large family. Her ancestors founded Kismet Bay over 200 years ago. Kismet Bay has a lot of charms and for the Stranges, it means leading them to their one true love. Christmas, and every holiday, brings out the magic of the town. It's Christmas, so anything is possible, and when she literally runs into Nicholas Bell outside the local coffee shop, her world turns upside down. Holly stopped believing she'd find love, but after that one fated meeting, she starts to believe in the power of destiny, and the possibility of finding her heart's desire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMonarchal Glenn Press
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9781386351191
    Once Upon a Christmas: Kismet Bay, #1

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      Once Upon a Christmas - Dawn Brower

      Once Upon a Christmas

      Once Upon a Christmas

      Kismet Bay Book One

      Dawn Brower

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Kismet Bay Copyright © 2019 Dawn Brower

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      Contents

      Once Upon a Christmas

      Acknowledgments

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      About The Author

      Also by Dawn Brower

      Afterword

      Once Upon a Christmas

      Kismet Bay Book One

      For all the readers that love reading my contemporary books. I hope you enjoy the beginning of the Kismet Bay tales.

      Acknowledgments

      Elizabeth Evans, thank you for being my rock and always reading my roughest of rough drafts. I appreciate you more than I can ever express.

      Chapter 1

      December in Kismet Bay…

      Light snow drifted from the sky and touched the ground. It didn’t stick and created more wet pavement and mud than anything else. Holly Strange stared out the window in disgust. Christmas was her favorite time of the year, and the annual Cocoa Crawl the one event she was excited for. All the businesses on Main Street participated. She owned Serendipity Lane with her older sister Ivy. Holly had a fraternal twin, Sage, but she rarely returned to Kismet Bay. Everything in

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