Love for Christmas

By Catherine Lievens

Jude isn’t hiding. No, the only reason he decided to spend the holidays in the isolated family cabin is that he wants time to think about his failed marriage and what’s next for him. He hadn’t expected the guy next door to come looking for his cat, and he certainly hadn’t expected the guy to know him.

Rupert’s cat, Clawdia, snuck out into the snowstorm, and there’s no way Rupert can leave her out there. When he knocks on his neighbor’s door, he’s stunned to find out he knows him—Jude’s the guy Rupert had a crush on in high school.

With Clawdia safe and a snowstorm raging outside, Jude and Rupert will have the time to get to know each other, and maybe they won’t be as alone at Christmas as they’d thought.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Dec 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781487420819

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Two lonely men, a snowstorm, and a lost cat—what can go wrong... or right?

Jude isn’t hiding. No, the only reason he decided to spend the holidays in the isolated family cabin is that he wants time to think about his failed marriage and what’s next for him. He hadn’t expected the guy next door to come looking for his cat, and he certainly hadn’t expected the guy to know him.

Rupert’s cat, Clawdia, snuck out into the snowstorm, and there’s no way Rupert can leave her out there. When he knocks on his neighbor’s door, he’s stunned to find out he knows him—Jude’s the guy Rupert had a crush on in high school.

With Clawdia safe and a snowstorm raging outside, Jude and Rupert will have the time to get to know each other, and maybe they won’t be as alone at Christmas as they’d thought.

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Love for Christmas

Copyright © 2018 Catherine Lievens

ISBN: 978-1-4874-2081-9

Cover art by Angela Waters

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Love for Christmas

By

Catherine Lievens

Chapter One

Jude’s phone rang before he could get out of the truck. He already knew who it was, just like he knew he didn’t want to answer, but he had to. If he didn’t, his mother would charge up the mountain to make sure he wasn’t buried under six feet of snow, and that was the last thing he wanted. He was there to spend some time alone, no matter what his mom had to say about it.

Hey, Mom, he answered as he looked at the cabin he’d parked in front of.

It was small but beautiful—but then the entire mountain was beautiful. The cabin sat in the middle of the snow, a dark building against the stark white of the cold stuff. The logs that made up its exterior walls fit with the rest of the landscape. Jude’s grandfather had built it as a place to take his small family for summer vacations decades ago, and while they didn’t use it much anymore, they still owned it.

It was perfect, even under the heavy blanket of snow. The roof looked like it might cave in at any second, but Jude knew it was sturdy. He could smell damp wood under the peculiar scent of the snow, but the