Book excerpt: [LARGE PRINT EDITION - 18 POINT FONT SIZE]Little did mailman Mick Jolly know that delivering a kitten to an abandoned millhouse would change his life, past, present, and future. Mick Jolly suffers from youngest son syndrome, eclipsed by his popular older brothers. Instead of receiving love letters, he reads his brothers' fan mail on the sly.One dark evening, he drives through a snowstorm to deliver a package, only to find a kitten inside.When Mick returns to the abandoned millhouse with cat food, he encounters a beautiful woman wearing Victorian Christmas clothes.Katherine Gills is waiting for her lover to return. The only problem, she has been waiting for years, maybe hundreds. When Mick comes through her doorway with a bag of cat food, she believes he is the man to deliver her from her endless cycle of Christmas heartbreaks.Together, Katherine and Mick uncover a cache of lost letters, a curse around her family tree, and a budding new romance in a world of past and present Christmases, aided by a kitten who wants to get in from the cold.---Christmas Creek romances are a fun way to get into the holiday spirit. They are sassy, standalone romances centered around a town which celebrates Christmas all year round. Each story has a happy ending and can be read in any order, but of course, they are more fun if read together.Deck the Hearts, #1 Can Holly's jolly Christmas spirit help Grinchy Gordon Gills save the town of Christmas Creek?Her Christmas Chance, #2 A woman with cerebral palsy and her tomcat disagree about the attractive ex-con living next door. Will a dose of Christmas magic reach through his dark secrets?A Christmas Creek Carol, #3 A reclusive writer, Ebony Cruse, is given a one-star review on her life by characters in her past, present, and future.Kitty, It's Cold Outside, #4 When mailman Mick Jolly delivers a kitten to an abandoned millhouse, he is ensnared by a beautiful Victorian woman caught in a Christmas curse.A Christmas Creek Caper, #5 Someone's stealing packages off the Christmas Creek porches. Sheriff Brad Wing is on the case-until he's caught with his hands up and his pants down.Toy Soldier Christmas, #6 Breast cancer survivor, Nutmeg Brown, finds a broken toy soldier under her Christmas tree. It's love at first sight with a wooden toy or is it?Red's Christmas Woodsman, #7When Ruby Red Rumsey visits her grandmother's Christmas Creek cottage, she finds a hunky woodsman asleep in her grandmother's bed.