Evergreen and Poinsettias

By Kassandra Lea

Brylee Mariotte is hoping to get a boyfriend for Christmas, and when she meets Liam Casey, it looks like she might just get her wish.

It's the magical holiday season again and, like everyone else, flower shop owner Brylee Mariotte can't help but get swept up in it. Of course, the phrase happiest time of the year' only makes her loneliness worse. As she watches the happy couples, she starts wishing and hoping for Santa to bring her a man to call her own, and not just for the holidays. She wants the real deal—someone for the long haul.

When the dashingly handsome Liam Casey offers her a helping hand, Brylee begins to think that miracles might just exist. The bookstore owner's touch lights a fire deep inside her, one she thought would never get burning. But what if Liam isn't as into her? Or, even worse, what if he's already married?

With a little touch of evergreen and a whole lot of Christmas magic, Brylee may just get her man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
• Release date: Dec 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781784309008

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Evergreen and Poinsettias

ISBN # 978-1-78430-900-8

©Copyright Kassandra Lea 2015

Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright November 2015

Edited by Ann Leveille

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EVERGREEN AND POINSETTIAS

Kassandra Lea

Brylee Mariotte is hoping to get a boyfriend for Christmas, and when she meets Liam Casey, it looks like she might just get her wish.

It’s the magical holiday season again and, like everyone else, flower shop owner Brylee Mariotte can’t help but get swept up in it. Of course, the phrase ‘happiest time of the year’ only makes her loneliness worse. As she watches the happy couples, she starts wishing and hoping for Santa to bring her a man to call her own, and not just for the holidays. She wants the real deal—someone for the long haul.

When the dashingly handsome Liam Casey offers her a helping hand, Brylee begins to think that miracles might just exist. The bookstore owner’s touch lights a fire deep inside her, one she thought would never get burning. But what if Liam isn’t as into her? Or, even worse, what if he’s already married?

With a little touch of evergreen and a whole lot of Christmas magic, Brylee may just get her man.

Dedication

For my mom, who always told me to never give up.

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Mercedes: Daimler AG Corporation

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Chapter One

Less than two weeks before the biggest holiday of the year, Brylee Mariotte strolled along the fringes of the park, clutching at a long rectangular box wrapped with a red Christmas bow. Snow crunched under the heels of her boots, the chill of the December wind nipping at her cheeks and making the tip of her nose go numb. Everything about the day seemed perfect, from the children throwing snowballs to the couples ice skating on the pond at the park’s heart. The town was basically ready to grace the front of a postcard, the quintessential picture of a small town during the holidays.

The black antique-style lampposts were wrapped with red and green ribbons. At night the evergreens in the park twinkled in their suits of golden-white Christmas lights. Up and down Main Street the businesses boasted splashes of evergreen and cut-out snowmen and the pharmacy had even set a cotton-stuffed Santa on the bench out front. With a blanket of white covering the town, Brylee sometimes thought she had strolled onto the set of one of those holiday romance movies they were always