Cece Wainwright's Christmas Wish

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tropes: Grinch vs. Cindy Lou; Scarred reclusive war hero; Epistolary; Widow; Forced Proximity</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cece Wainwright married her childhood sweetheart and lost him at Balaclava six years ago. The only thing she has to remind her of him is the stack of letters he wrote her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And now there's a second stack sitting beside it - the ones she wrote him. They arrived via post three weeks ago from some remote Scottish hamlet.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She wants to know who sent them and why. Because she's suspected all along that her husband didn't pen those letters.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Malcolm Lockhart fell in love with his best friend's wife through her correspondence. And his friend was ecstatic when Malcolm volunteered to answer her letters.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He kept the letters after the war. Until he couldn't stand the sight of them because they reminded him of all the hopes and dreams he'd abandoned.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now she's standing on his doorstep demanding answers he's not ready to give.</span></p><p><br></p>