03006cam a2200469 i 4500 1634762738 TxAuBib 20241001120000.0 240105s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781496748324 hardcover 1496748328 hardcover (OCoLC)1416627017 TxAuBib rda Bunn, Davis, 1952-, author. The Christmas cottage / Davis Bunn. First Kensington hardcover edition: October 2024. New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp, 2024. ©2024. 282 pgs ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Miramar Bay ; 9 When life is in turmoil . . . Pushing through his troubled childhood, Dillon Farrow was seventeen when he said goodbye to Miramar and did himself proud, thriving as a successful investment counselor. But a betrayal by a trusted friend has brought everything crashing down. Dillon’s only recourse—return to Miramar, penniless and feeling defeated—more so when a winter flood sweeps away all roads to town. Now he and his fellow stranded travelers are destined to spend Christmas at the only available accommodations—the local jail. Yet it’s in this makeshift inn that Dillon sees her. His first love. The girl he left behind. There’s always hope if you wait out the storm . . . After an emotionally and financially devastating divorce, Olivia Greer has no choice but to come back to her hometown of Miramar. Less a retreat than a surrender, it’s the first time in years—since Olivia’s mother, her best friend for life, passed away. In the interim, their hillside cottage has remained empty, as forlorn as Olivia herself. The flood only seems like fate testing her resilience one more time. But providence comes in myriad forms: Dillon Farrow, the sweet boy who once had dreams of better things. Just like Olivia. The future can hold dreams as well. Crossing paths is a Christmas blessing Dillon and Olivia never expected—a reunion with the potential to impact other lives too. And for both of them, perhaps in the cottage on the hill, Miramar could finally start feeling like home again. 20241001. Friendship Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Investment advisors Fiction. Divorced women Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Floods Fiction. Jails Fiction. First loves Fiction. Romance fiction. Christian fiction. Christmas fiction. Novels. Christmas stories Fiction. Miramar Bay ; 9. BTCLS