Ever been on a plane that flew into a snowstorm? There is zero joy in that kind of turbulence, believe me. Like we had any choice about which direction we were flying into. Like the screaming baby in the seat next to me, or the vomiting lady in the row in front of me weren’t bad enough. None of this “sorry folks to avoid flying into a massive snow blizzard, we’re being diverted to Missoula, Montana” crap the captain of the plane said when we were halfway there. Christmas should be hot summer days at the beach, seafood and salads, beers and watching the bronzed surfers and drunk foreigners at Bondi. Which is weird enough for this Australian. Then two years, at least, in America trying to unshitify his life.Īnd if the trip to said God-knows-where, Idaho, was any indication of just how spectacularly extra-shitified my life was going to get, I should have turned around and stayed right where I was.īecause if the flight from Sydney to LA was bad, which it was, then the second flight, LA to Spokane, made the first flight look like a joy ride.īecause you see, Christmastime in America is in winter. Hamish Kenneally, thirty-one-year-old Australian, who quit his shitty job and sold his shitty apartment and left behind his shitty life in Sydney, packed his said-shitty life into two suitcases, and boarded a plane to spend Christmas with his sister in God-knows-where, Idaho, USA. I am the totally catastrophic unmitigated disaster. My life, my relationship, my job, my plans, my future, and this whole damn trip. What is a totally catastrophic, unmitigated disaster, you might ask?

These two unlikely strangers have more in common than they first realise, and after two days of Christmas decorations, cookies, and non-stop conversation, it looks like Christmas might be saved after all.Ī totally catastrophic, unmitigated disaster. And with help from Hamish, Ren is beginning to feel a little Christmas cheer. Hamish is certain he’s crashed right into a Hallmark Christmas movie, despite more car delays and road closures and the prospect of not seeing his sister for Christmas. With the storm and the holidays leaving Hamish with nowhere else to go, Ren kindly offers a place to stay. But when a car runs off the road in front of his property, Ren pulls the driver out and takes him home to get out of the cold. And after his dad’s passing earlier in the year, Ren’s Christmas is looking bleak. After a few failed attempts at love, he’s resigned to being single forever-after all, no guy wants to stay in his sleepy little town for long. Ren Brooks has always called Hartbridge, Montana, and his family hardware store, home. When a snowstorm diverts his plane to Montana and leaves him stranded two days before Christmas, he hires a car and drives right into a blizzard. Hamish Kenneally is moving from Australia to the US for a fresh start, starting with Christmas at his sister’s place in Idaho. Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Holiday, LGBTQ+, Romance

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