Wally Pruitt was just too perfect in the role to suit the other Santas, so he was out the door. But with that door still open it left an opportunity that both Roxy Mercer and Nate Carrington were intent upon profiting by. Roxy wanted Santa in place in her Christmas-year-round shop, The North Pole Outlet. Nate wanted a a familiar rosy cheeked and white bearded face on Carrington's Christmas Catalog, and possibly a sales representative well worth his weight in sugar cookies the rest of the year. Which of course meant war was declared when it came to winning this Santa.
As Nate and Roxy jockey for leverage over the other in the Hire a Santa sweepstakes, Wally's wife believes the two holiday retailers are perfect for each other and that there is nothing like the holiday season when it comes to falling in love.
And in this case, she just might be right.
Share a holiday family tradition:
When I was a child, traditions changed as my three brothers and I got older. Santa used to arrive on Christmas Eve at first. We’d all pile in the car and go for a drive around to look at the lights on decorated houses and we kids would be half asleep when we got home. Daddy would go in the house “to turn on lights”, he’d say. But when we got inside, there were presents under the tree! When I was in the 4th grade, we’d moved to a different house, different neighborhood. I’d figured out that Mom and Dad were Santa two years earlier (pinned Mom in an interrogation with my suspicions ‘til she caved to 7-year-old me). At the new-to-us house, I asked if we could start having Christmas on Christmas morning. Mom said my little brothers would be expecting the presents on Christmas Eve. I said, “tell them we moved to a different part of Santa’s route” so that’s what we told them and they bought it. When we all knew there was no Santa, we’d head to the maternal grandparents Christmas Eve, attend Midnight Mass with them, go back to Grandma and Grandpa’s for a middle of the night breakfast and open presents from them and what my aunt in New York sent, then it would be home to open the gifts under the tree, a nap, and on to the fraternal grandparents or my local aunt’s house for dinner and more presents. By the time we were doing this, part of getting ready for Christmas was going to a local nursery that had single ornaments for purchase and we’d all get to pick out one to be both decoration and keepsake. My middle brother continued that tradition with his kids. As I had stepsons and there was no place where we lived to get just one ornament, I never got to pass that tradition along. All warm and cuddly memories now though.
Why is your featured book perfect to get readers in the holiday mood?
SEDUCING SANTA is, in my opinion, one of the funniest stories I’ve told. There’s a mall Santa and his cookie baking Mrs., a dashing hero who tends to lose interest in women who look at him with dollar signs in their eyes since he started and runs a successful year-round-catalog of holiday decorations, and a feisty heroine who becomes his rival in luring the mall Santa to work in her Christmas-Year-Round shop. Stir in a matchmaking Mrs. “Claus”, a dominating “mature” secretary, and lots of attempts at one-upmanship. My late mother loved this story so much, she reread it every holiday season. Now, I’m the one who continues that tradition. Yeah, like I didn’t already do it anyway. Happy Holidays!
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Church on Christmas Eve
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