<p><strong><em>Christmas comes but once a year. Unless you never take down the decorations.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>When a pipe in her home freezes and bursts antiques collector Fern Gale knows her holiday season is off to a bad start. Her house was already a&nbsp;<em>mess</em>&nbsp;and all she wants to do is&nbsp;drink hot chocolate and binge-watch Christmas movies.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The winter catastrophe pushes&nbsp;Fern to spruce things up at 313 Pine Tree Lane. And that's when she&nbsp;stumbles across something that belongs to her estranged husband.</p><p><br></p><p>Stedman Gale thought he moved on from Fern. After all when her mother died their marriage died too. But then he gets a frantic phone call in the middle of the night that changes everything...</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If the small-town magpie can&nbsp;reconnect with the love of her life then maybe she'll be more than the lonely woman who lives in&nbsp;<em>The Christmas House.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Book Two in the Hickory Grove series is a quirky stand-alone romantic women's fiction about a second chance that comes a little later in life. Order your copy in time for the holiday season. </em></p><p><br></p>