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    Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas
    Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas
    Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas
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    Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas

    By Kit Tunstall

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    Kit Tunstall brings you four tales about Thanksgiving and Christmas about families, friends, and neighbors. 

    Jason and Ally connect over a Christmas Bear.

    Jenny's first Christmas after her mother's passing involves Turkey Salad and Other Traditions.

    Ellen is determined to solve the lighthearted mystery of the Christmas Bandit.

    Will gets one Last Christmas Present from his deceased husband.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmourisa Press
    Release dateDec 5, 2016
    ISBN9781540143440
    Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas
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    Kit Tunstall

    USA Today bestselling author Kit Tunstall lives in Idaho with her husband and two sons. She enjoys writing several genres and subgenres. When she started publishing, dinosaurs roamed the earth, and authors had one pen name with their publisher. That was the name you wrote everything under, no matter how dissimilar. Thanks to advances in publishing, it's now easy to have more than one pen name, and many readers have come to expect a certain type of book experience from each author. The "brand," if you will. Kit's catalog makes it difficult to tell what brand you're getting, so she has "co-authored" each type with a pen name, so you'll know what kind of book to expect. * Contemporary romances that are super steamy: Kit Kyndall * Science fiction and/or paranormal romance: Aurelia Skye * Edgier works (including fertile erotic romances and bad boys): Kristianna Sawyer * Historical Romances: Kristina Saxon * Horror, SciFi, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic without (much) romance: T.K. Reilley http://www.kittunstall.com

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      Holiday Tales - Kit Tunstall

      Table of Contents

      Holiday Tales: Four Short Stories of Thanksgiving and Christmas

      CHRISTMAS BEAR

      TURKEY SALAD AND OTHER TRADITIONS

      Christmas Bandit

      LAST CHRISTMAS PRESENT

      Further Reading: Dragon's Christmas Baby, Sweet Edition

      Also By Kit Tunstall

      Happily Ever After Romances reserves all rights granted by the author. No part of this book may be copied or shared without written permission from the publisher. All characters are creations of the author, and resemblances to any real person are coincidental.

      Copyright 2014, Kit Tunstall

      Cover image: Depsoitphotos/Subbotina

      HOLIDAY TALES: FOUR SHORT STORIES

      Navigation

      CHRISTMAS BEAR

      TURKEY SALAD AND OTHER TRADITIONS

      CHRISTMAS BANDIT

      LAST CHRISTMAS PRESENT

      CHRISTMAS BEAR

      As Jason Nesmith left the front entrance of Nesmith's, one of the city's oldest department stores, he noticed two things. The first was the dimming of the evening as the sun departed to be replaced by twilight. Going to have to quit working so late, he thought to himself as he stepped onto the sidewalk. Just as soon as the holiday rush was over, Jason planned to take a vacation.

      He turned in the direction of his black Mercedes, parked against the curb near the front of the store. He thought about stopping for chicken on the way home, but knew his housekeeper would have left a meal for one in the large refrigerator.

      That's when he noticed the second thing. A little girl and a woman sat on the bench for the bus stop, less than ten feet from his car. Jason's eyes couldn't help but appreciate the beauty of the russet shade of the mother's hair.

      Upon closer inspection, he noticed the child had the same shade, but in a cascade of ringlets. She couldn't be more than six, but the faded coat she wore was obviously meant for an older child. It had been torn and mended a number of times.

      Jason knew quite a bit about clothes, and he mentally tallied what the mother and daughter wore to equal less than an outfit sold in his store. He found himself wondering why they were in

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