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This Christmas novella is set in charming, Cavanaugh Island featuring popular characters from Santuary Cove. High school senior Crystal Robinson is being pressured to follow in her brother's footsteps by attending Howard University when all she's ever wanted is to go to the College of Charleston. Rather than focus on her pending admissions decision, she puts all of her energy in her community service project at a Charleston nursing home. There, she immediately connects with an elderly woman, Miss Mildred. Brayden Harris, a New York City college student, finds out his great-grandmother has taken ill, forcing her into a nursing home. Brayden can't stand the thought of Mildred spending the holidays alone and immediately drops out and heads south. What he doesn't expect to find is the bright, lovely, and charming Crystal Robinson tending to his great-grandmother. As the holidays grow near, Crystal and Brayden spend all of their time together at Miss Mildred's side, fascinated by her stories of love and World War II. What begins as a happenstance friendship turns into a budding romance. But what will happen once the holidays have past and Brayden returns to his life in New York? (25,000) words.
Author
Rochelle Alers was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, where she raised. She obtained degrees in Sociology and Psychology, before started to work. She is a member of the Iota Theta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and her interests include gourmet cooking and traveling. She has traveled to countries in North, Central and South America, and Europe. She is also in accomplished in knitting, crocheting and needlepoint. Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary. Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.
