Twice As Nice Christmas

By Natalie-Nicole Bates

Jade Edmonds, an accessories buyer for an upscale department store, is forced by her kind-hearted boss to take a Christmas vacation. She decides to visit the Bulgarian home she purchased on a whim, sight unseen from the internet. What starts as a dream vacation soon turns into a nightmare of events including turbulent flights with screaming babies, snow storms, and a house that is not quite what Jade imagined.

 

But there is one constant bright spot. It seems wherever Jade finds trouble, charming London-living, English interpreter, Damyon Vadkov, is always there to help. The two spend a magical month in Bulgaria, and love is in the air. Their separation looms large as the couple needs to return to their lives in separate countries.  Will this be the end or just the beginning?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paperlate Press
• Release date: Nov 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223485278

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author. Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia. She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.    

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Natalie-Nicole Bates

Twice As Nice Christmas

First published by Paperlate Press 2023

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

About the Author

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Chapter 1

It’s probably not advisable to buy a home off the Internet, thousands of miles away in a country where you don’t speak the language.

But I’m sure worse decisions have been made after midnight.

I don’t even know how I found the website, but somehow, as I sat in the dark of my apartment with a bag of chocolate chip cookies and going blind after hours of mindless website searching, I fell into the Rural Homes for Sale in Beautiful Bulgaria.

Or something like that.

I don’t really remember the actual website’s name.

I was immediately greeted with pages of charming homes.

All the houses were in need of a little tender loving care, but at prices that could make almost anyone with a little money and some DIY knowledge, an instant homeowner.

I admit I was bored and I allowed myself to be blinded by a fantasy of a quaint little home in the middle of some rural village.

I could spend Christmas with a cup of cocoa in my hand, in front of a roaring fire.

Not a care in the world.

If I could snag myself some handsome Bulgarian hottie to cozy with on those cold, December nights, so much the better.

The next day, I impulsively picked up my telephone while at work and bought a house.

Just like that.

Well, maybe not instantaneous, but quickly enough.

A few forms express-mailed back and forth, a few notarized signatures, a copy of my passport, a wire transfer from my bank, and suddenly, I, Jade Edmonds, am a homeowner.

My house is located in central Bulgaria between the city of Stara Zagora and the town of Chirpan, situated at the end of a quiet village, by a small river, south-facing with great views onto the foothills of the Sredna Gora Mountains.

There is the added bonus that