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AVAILABLE: Wednesday, December 10th
Celyn Berry needs a Christmas miracle. While helping her nieces write letters to Santa, she adds a letter of her own to the package. She asks that her deployed Marine brother come home in time for the birth of his third child, and that her nieces get at least one toy from their Christmas lists. The problem is there's no money for toys this year. At the end of her letter, she adds her own wish for a tall, dark, handsome man to come into her life.
In charge of letters from adult believers, Enrico Leonardo Francisco, or Elf to his friends, reads her letter and knows he has to meet her before he passes her letter on to Santa.
Can they build a lifetime connection from only one night together? Will Celyn be willing to leave her family to join him at the North Pole? Will Celyn’s brother make it home for Christmas?
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas and my December 26th birthday this year is for my brother, Cedar, to come home from his deployment with the Marines in time for his third child’s birth. Also, could my nieces, Hope and Joy, find at least one toy from their Christmas lists under the tree? We have no extra money for toys, but they’ve been such good girls this year and deserve something special. Cedar’s wife, Lilly, has been ordered to stay in bed for the last two months of her pregnancy, which means she had to quit her job at the hospital. My waitress job and what Cedar sends us is barely enough to pay the bills and buy food.
While I would not refuse a hot, sexy, good-hearted man if one should come into my life, I would happily give him up if the kids could have a good Christmas and Cedar could return home in time.
Thank you in advance,
Celyn Berry
PS—I hope you enjoy these cookies the girls and I made. We call them Elf Kisses.
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Enrico Leonardo Francisco, jokingly known as Elf to the North Pole residents, read the letter from an obviously adoring aunt for a fourth time. The love in the letter touched something even deeper than his heart. It reached his soul.
Enrico could also feel the desperation behind the woman’s request. The children’s letters and cookies had already been sent downstairs to the Processing Department.
Picking up the phone, he called the head of Processing and requested that the rest of the Berry family package be brought to him.
As the North Pole’s chief investigator of letters from adult believers, it was Enrico’s responsibility to decide whether a letter should be acted upon, trashed as not worthy of attention, or send it to the angels for their divine attention. With most letters, decisions were easy to make. But Celyn’s letter pulled at him in a way none of the others he’d ever read had.
