Winterbourne Revisited

By Jen Silver

My fifth novel, Christmas at Winterbourne, was published in November 2016. The story takes place over four days of the Christmas holidays at a lesbian retreat in Sussex, Winterbourne House. Wil and Gaby are the owners and hosts to the family and guests arriving for the festivities. Gaby is heavily pregnant and hoping to get through this Christmas period without giving birth. But, of course, she does...on Boxing Day.
This short story, a visit to Winterbourne House four years later, gave me the chance to see how things were going with the family and two of their former guests. Teri is looking forward to her fourth birthday and all she wants for Christmas is...snow. Lots of it...just like at the time of her birth, when Winterbourne House was snowbound.
(This story originally appeared in Affinity’s Charity 10th Anniversary Christmas Anthology.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Affinity Ebook Press NZ Ltd
• Release date: Nov 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781990049521

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Winterbourne Revisited

Jen Silver

2021

Back of the Book

My fifth novel, Christmas at Winterbourne, was published in November 2016. The story takes place over four days of the Christmas holidays at a lesbian retreat in Sussex, Winterbourne House. Wil and Gaby are the owners and hosts to the family and guests arriving for the festivities. Gaby is heavily pregnant and hoping to get through this Christmas period without giving birth. But, of course, she does…on Boxing Day.

This short story, a visit to Winterbourne House four years later, gave me the chance to see how things were going with the family and two of their former guests. Teri is looking forward to her fourth birthday and all she wants for Christmas is…snow. Lots of it…just like at the time of her birth, when Winterbourne House was snowbound.

Winterbourne Revisited

© 2020 by Jen Silver

Affinity E-Book Press NZ LTD.

Canterbury, New Zealand

2nd Edition 2021

ISBN: 978-1-99-004952-1 (EPUB)

ISBN: 978-1-99-004953-8 (PDF)

ISBN: 978-1-99-004954-5 (KINDLE)

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This is a work of fiction. Names, character, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Editor: Angela Koenig

Proof Editor: Alexis Smith

Cover Design: Irish Dragon Designs

Production Design: Affinity Publication Services

Acknowledgments

I wrote this story for Affinity’s 10th Anniversary Christmas Anthology, published in 2020. This collection of stories was a limited release edition that is no longer available. So thank you to Affinity Rainbow Publications for releasing Winterbourne Revisited again as a single short story.

Dedication

For all the readers who let me know they enjoyed Christmas at Winterbourne

Also by Jen Silver

Single Stories:

Darcy Comes Home

Country Living

Deuce

Calling Home

Changing Perspectives

Running From Love

Christmas at Winterbourne

The Circle Dance

Starling Hill Trilogy:

Starting Over

Arc Over Time

Carved in Stone

Short Stories:

Three Mile Cache (Novella)

There Was a Time

The Christmas Sweepstake (Affinity’s 2014 Christmas Collection)

Beltane in Space (It’s in Her Kiss—Affinity Charity Anthology)

Maybe This Christmas (Affinity’s Christmas Medley 2017)

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

About the Author

Other Books from Affinity

Chapter One

Arrivals

Starting the walk up the long drive