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Christmas is a time for peace, love, and goodwill toward mankind. Not! More like cheating exes and absentee friends. For Emmett Byrd, spending the holiday season with his old college friend Terry in San Diego is supposed to be about mending his broken heart. But when Terry deserts him at the last minute, leaving Emmett alone in his condo for Christmas, it's just the icing on the cake of a crappy year full of betrayal and lost love. The only Christmas spirit this Scrooge is feeling is the alcoholic kind. Then a slightly kooky, unsophisticated farm boy named Sky knocks on the door looking for Terry, and a case of mistaken identity reawakens Emmett's hope in happily ever after.

 

Book Review

This was more than charming, more than lovely, more than heartwarmingly delightful. The story all takes place in fashionable but empty, cold, and sterile condo. Emmett races out of Chicago to San Diego to commiserate with his friend who is also in the dark depths of a breakup. Perfect—spend Christmas with an old friend who is hurting as much as he his, Emmett thinks, and each will try and pull the other together. That certainly should have worked. Uh-oh! Terry, the friend, made up, once again, with his guy and left for Palm Springs before Emmett arrives and without telling him. Sheesh. That doesn’t sound like a good friend to me. Emmett is beginning to wonder about that, too. It is almost Christmas time, the time of magic and transformation? Do you believe? I do!

Emmett Byrd lives and works in Chicago. They have a lot of snow there and since he is hurting from the breakup with his significant other of twelve years, he needs to race away from everything, he thinks. After three days in Terry's empty condo and only one pizza, multiple bottles of wine, little sleep, no changing of clothes, and no showering Emmett is kind of trashed. Should he let the person persistently ringing the doorbell in? He does and with his perception and articulation sounding very much like he has had too much to drink, he concludes the gorgeous guy must be Terry’s rebound fellow who has been unceremoniously stood up! Of course, from Emmett’s bleary standpoint everybody and everything has been stood up!

Sky has left something at Terry’s. Terry is Emmett’s good friend or was his good friend. Sky may be from Iowa and feeling a bit out place in San Diego, but he grasps Emmett’s situation very quickly and perceptively. He is more than the complete gentleman and willingly jumps in to be a bit of a nursemaid to Emmett. Sky was way gorgeous and so consoling as to seem like an Angel. I thought so. Emmett keeps wondering if Sky is an ax murderer. Sky is simply amazing as he does all the right things to soothe Emmett’s battered and flattened feathers. I want Sky for me! What a Christmas present, I thought, but Emmett is a bit perception-challenged, a tad rigid, and hurting oh so bad. What Sky does is simply angelic. He is the exception to the rule. By the way, his parents really named him ‘Sky Miracle Whittaker’.

This is a fantastic Christmas treat and definitely should not be missed.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and audio
Length	Novella, 67 pages/16093 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-December-2013
Price	$3.99 ebook, $6.95 audiobook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/rebound-by-chris-scully-1657-b