<p><em><strong>What's a staid predictable grandmother to do when...</strong></em><br><br>She has a first and only one night stand with a man who makes her feel all the best things a woman can feel...and she's so scared she runs...<br><br>And when he walks into her place of work on a first date with someone else?<br><br><strong><em>She dives to the floor to hide that's what.</em></strong><br><br>And so it begins for <em><strong>Laurel Tabor</strong></em> a longtime widow who did one wild crazy thing only to have her best mistake walk <strong><em>all the way </em></strong>into her life.<br><br><em><strong>Nick St. John </strong></em>has wondered for weeks what happened to the lovely Laurel a woman he fell hard for too quickly. Finally accepting that he'd never find her again he returns to online dating...only to walk into the diner where she works in Dickens.<br><br>But Laurel's not interested in a repeat of that fabulous night and Nick is determined to prove that sometimes <strong><em>fast </em></strong>can be <em><strong>oh-so-right</strong></em>.<br><br>Especially when he learns his former son-in-law is now married to Laurel's daughter and he has stumbled into an extended family he didn't know he needed.<br><br><em><strong>How can Nick woo a reluctant woman when they share a loving but nosey family?</strong></em><br><br>Read this warmhearted small town Christmas later-in-life rom-com and laugh cringe and cry as this widow and widower come to accept that Dickens holiday magic can give them a second chance at love.</p>