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Santa's Secret

Michael P. Thomas

Publisher: JMS Books LLC

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Summary

Samir is a lot closer to forty than he is to fourteen. For all the good it does him -- when he's around cutie-pie Kerry, a waiter at his favorite happy hour hotspot, he feels more like a tween girl backstage with a boyband than any kind of upstanding professional.
Especially when he's drunkenly inspired to write a letter to Santa Claus, in which he asks to find Kerry under his tree on Christmas morning. A wish that verges on coming true, even, until Kerry breaks their Christmas Eve date for the worst reason Samir has ever been called upon to pretend to believe. But Santa works in mysterious ways ...
Available since: 12/26/2015.
Print length: 23 pages.

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