December, December

by Emma Shortt

Falling in love doesn't only happen when you're in your twenties or thirties. Sometimes it comes later in life, and when it does it is worth waiting for.

Kathy Reilly is a forty-four year old florist adjusting to an empty nest. Single and lonely, she doesn’t believe love will come her way again. So when she meets Jake Newton, she doesn't expect much of anything, certainly not a night of blazing passion.

For Jake, Kathy is like a breath of fresh air, and she awakens something in him that he hasn't felt before in his fifty years. One night with her will never be enough, and he will do whatever it takes to make her give him a chance.

But can both of them look past their old lives, and their old heart breaks, to take a chance on a romance that neither expected?

Unknown Binding

First published July 29, 2013

About the author

As a kid Emma wanted to be an astronaut, or maybe Captain Janeway. Because she didn't really think her career choices through very well she ended up in an everyday geek job, crunching numbers and sighing over syntax. It seemed a long way from the stars and in an effort to escape Emma decided to get serious about her other passion. Writing.

Several years later and Emma has yet to walk on the moon or sit in the Captain's chair, but she is still writing. She scribbles stories in all sorts of genres, contemporary, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, historical, sci-fi...if she hasn't tried it yet she will before long.

The only common theme is the romance. A hopeless romantic everything Emma writes has a love story in there somewhere.