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    New Beginnings
    New Beginnings
    New Beginnings
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    New Beginnings

    By Jayne Lockwood

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    Part of the "A Holiday to Remember 2017 Series"

    Nick is not looking forward to his second Christmas without Sammi, his gorgeous ex-fiancee. She left him on New Year’s Eve, a week after their engagement, and he still doesn’t know why.

    A chance meeting whilst out Christmas shopping reveals that Sammi is now Sam, a transgender man. As the reasons behind their break-up become clearer, Nick cannot make sense of his new feelings. He is shocked by the deep attraction he still has to Sam, and what that says about himself.

    It will take Nick's straight-talking family, and Sam’s guiding hand, to help him discover that gender is no barrier to love.

    A Holiday to Remember
    Freddy MacKay - Watermelon Kisses
    Foster Bridget Cassidy - But to Love More
    Toni Griffin - Corey's Christmas Bundle
    Angel Martinez - Safety Protocols for Human Holidays
    Nicole Dennis - Secrets & Silk
    Kassandra Lea - Winter Home
    Jill Wexler - The Christmas Eve Craigslist Killer
    Jayne Lockwood - New Beginnings
    Tray Ellis - A Piece of Ourselves
    J. Scott Coatsworth - I Only Want to Be With You
    Siri Paulson - A New Year on Vega III

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMischief Corner Books
    Release dateDec 20, 2017
    ISBN9781386447382
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      New Beginnings - Jayne Lockwood

      About the e-Book You Have Purchased:

      This copy is intended for the original purchaser of this e-book ONLY. No part of this e-book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without prior written permission from the authors. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author's rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

      Cover Artist: Catherine Dair

      Editor: Jude Dunn

      First Edition

      New Beginnings © 2017 Jayne Lockwood

      All Rights Reserved.

      Published in the United States of America.

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: New Beginnings is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are fictionalized. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The story contains explicit sexual content and is intended for adult readers.

      Any person depicted in the Licensed Art Material is a model and is being used solely for illustrative purposes.

      PUBLISHER

      Mischief Corner Books, LLC

      Trademarks Acknowledgement

      The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following word marks mentioned in this work of fiction:

      Action Man: Hasbro, Inc.

      Roberts Radio: GlenDimplex

      Starbucks: Starbucks Corporation

      Ultimate Ears (UE): Logitech International S.A.

      Table of Contents

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      Copyright

      Trademarks Acknowledgement

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Dear Reader

      About Jayne Lockwood

      Also by Jayne Lockwood

      About Mischief Corner Books

      Chapter One

      Of course, I'd left it all to the last minute. Again. Every year I swore I would be more organised than the next. Cards written by December 1. Presents haphazardly wrapped by the fifteenth, allowing me to enjoy the festivities unencumbered, stress-free, and, no doubt, as irritating as hell to everyone else.

      And every year I failed.

      It was a week before Christmas Eve. I stood in a queue in a department store, juggling a leather-bound Roberts Radio for Dad, a waterproof UE speaker for my Action Man younger brother, and a cashmere pashmina for Mum. My feet hurt, and I was about to become seriously broke due to my lackadaisical approach to the whole Christmas merry-go-round, which necessitated me spending twice as

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