Jane has multiple strikes against her: She’s fat. She’s divorced. She’s over forty. She has enough strikes against her to make every man run, strikes that have made every man run, except one: the one she knows she shouldn’t have. Sergeant Brad Wilcox’s fourth deployment in ten years is coming to an end. It’s time for him to decide his future. In truth, he knows what he wants; he wants Jane, but she’s sidestepped his every forward word. With Jane’s daughter in her first year at college, and unable to make it home for Christmas, Sergeant Wilcox rolls the dice and shows up at her doorstep. Jane has carefully refuted his every flirtation via letter, but can she refuse the soldier face to face? One thing is for certain: there will never be another Christmas like this one.