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    The Christmas Secret: A BWWM Holiday Romance: A Langdale Christmas, #1
    The Christmas Secret: A BWWM Holiday Romance: A Langdale Christmas, #1
    The Christmas Secret: A BWWM Holiday Romance: A Langdale Christmas, #1
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    The Christmas Secret: A BWWM Holiday Romance: A Langdale Christmas, #1

    By Peyton Banks

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    There's no place like home for the holidays...

     

    When her best friend comes home for the holidays, there is something different about him. Gracie Logan had been best friends with Harris since they were in junior high. Growing up, he had been the popular guy in town who all the women swooned over.

     

    And she had been stuck in the friend category forever. 

     

    Keeping her lips sealed about her crush, she decided to continue being the one thing he needed most—a friend.

     

    Harris Bates was home for the holidays. One look at Gracie and knew he could no longer fight what he had known for years. 

     

    She was the one for him. 

     

    Sparks began to fly, and they can't ignore the intense attraction between them. Will they act on what is brewing between them? One thing they both knew was that nothing will ever be the same again.

     

    The Christmas Secret is a steamy, holiday BWWM romance. For readers who love sexy, friends to lovers romance, this is for you. This short novella is reserved for mature readers only.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRNB Publishing
    Release dateOct 31, 2021
    ISBN9798201160128
    The Christmas Secret: A BWWM Holiday Romance: A Langdale Christmas, #1

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      The Christmas Secret - Peyton Banks

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      W hy do you keep checking your phone?

      Gracie looked up from her smartphone and side-eyed her best friend, Ida, who was currently driving them to town.

      I thought I felt it vibrate. Placing it on her lap, she focused on the road, hating how her friend could read her so well. After a few moments of silence, Gracie began tapping her fingers on her knee, trying to keep from picking up the device again.

      Waiting on a message from him?

      No. He’ll call me when he gets into town, Gracie replied, trying to act nonchalant, but one look at Ida told her she had failed.

      Miserably.

      Guiding the vehicle down the snowy road, Ida countered, You’ve checked your phone every three minutes. Why don’t you just call him?

      For what?

      To see when he will arrive, and if it’s going to be solo this time.

      Gracie stiffened. She couldn’t wait for him to come home, but she didn’t want to think that he may not be alone.

      She stared out the window, watching the winter scenery fly by. They were on their way to the town’s recreation center so Ida’s daughter, Luna, could meet Santa Claus. Langdale was a small town nestled into the countryside of Illinois, where she had grown up, and always loved the small-town atmosphere.

      Everyone knew everyone.

      Christmas was just around the corner, and she couldn’t wait for him to return home.

      The he Ida was speaking of was Harris Bates.

      The boy next door.

      Gracie and Harris had grown up together, and he had been her protector when kids in school tried to pick on her. There weren’t many black families in Langdale. She wouldn’t say that the kids were cruel to her because of her race, but that they were just being kids.

      Harris had been the popular guy everyone respected. He had been the jock, while she had been a cheerleader. He had been the bad boy, while she was the good girl.

      They were friends, and Harris had always looked out for her.

      He just never looked at her as a woman.

      She was just Little Gracie to him.

      After high school, he had enrolled in the Marines, leaving her behind.

      Throughout the years, they had remained close through texts, phone calls, and social media. When she’d found out he had been deployed, she had been scared to death. Gracie and his mother, Molly, had ensured he always had goodie packages mailed to him wherever he was overseas.

      When he was honorably discharged after eight years of service, he had moved to Chicago, and made it home a few times a year to visit his family. She looked forward to each and every one of them because they got to hang out, making it feel like old times.

      When are you going to tell that boy you’re in love with him?

      Damn her.

      Gracie swung her head around and stared at Ida, who grinned at her unashamedly.

      Aunt Gracie, you have a boyfriend? Luna, the spunky five-year-old who was precious to Gracie, asked through a giggle. Ida, her best friend, was a single mother, divorced from her ass of an ex-husband, and had returned to Langdale to be closer to her family, who were helping her raise Luna. Gracie and Ida had become friends in high school, where they were both on the same cheer team, and developed a friendship that turned into a lifelong sisterhood. Gracie was an only child, so she considered Ida a sister—family.

      No, I do not. Turning around in her seat, Gracie looked into Luna’s big brown eyes and made a silly face, eliciting a fit of laughter from the girl. Your mother doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

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