Book excerpt: Free-spirited journalist Grace McKinnon is happy jet-setting from one adventure to the next. That is, until work beckons her back home for Christmas, to Beckett's Run--the cozy winter wonderland that contains everything she ran away from years ago, including childhood sweetheart J. C. Carson.... Blazing into town in her red convertible, Grace nearly runs J.C. off the road And working together to organize the Christmas festival, sparks fly even as their past looms between them. But with the first snowflakes falling, will Grace be able to resist J.C. under the mistletoe...despite all their differences?