Dreamspinner is doing a lovely Advent Calendar of stories by all their authors. Mine is only one. When you sign up, you get one story a day until the new year.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/advent.htm

Summary: Andy's Mom sends him to his childhood home to check on the house for Christmas -- and he can't avoid memories of the past, especially when Jake shows up on his doorstep to spark a fire in the unheated house.

And Elisa likes this one too!
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