This one isn't exactly a Christmas tale. We meet the main characters on Thanksgiving Day, which is pretty much universally accepted as the start of the Christmas season here in the United States. The book is set in Michigan, and most of the families I know in the Midwest (ours usually included, if we're not traveling!) put up their Christmas tree either on Thanksgiving Day or that weekend. So it stands to reason that the early part of the holiday season would be the busiest time of the year on a Christmas tree farm, which is where David and Erik meet .
Working any kind of retail during the Christmas season is my idea of a nightmare, and David Rochester would agree. His family owns the Christmas tree farm, and even with his self-professed dislike of people and hatred of Christmas music, he finds himself working the dreaded Christmas Shoppe on the property more than usual, thanks to his family's meddling attempts to match him up with Erik, one of the part-time employees they take on to get through the busy season.
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If not for his family and his Christmas tree farm, David Rochester would be a recluse. And Erik Shriver wouldn’t know a quiet moment if it smacked him in the face. But now David’s farm has brought them together. When Erik’s flurry of bad jokes and frenetic energy sets David off kilter, his family notices and begins conspiring. They push David and a very willing Erik together again and again until David stops denying his attraction. But an almost-hermit and a soon-to-be-former club boy each bring baggage into a relationship. They’ll have to take things slowly to find the middle ground between David's taciturn silence and Eric's boundless chatter.
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