Wrapped with a Beau by Lillie Vale EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lillie Vale
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Elisha
There isn’t a lot that Elisha Rowe is sure of at this hour, but as she
shivers on her parents’ snow-dusted porch in fluffy pink slippers and a
pom-pom beanie, she’s sure of this: someone has broken into her house.
Well, not her house. Rather, the green, gabled Victorian across the street.
She doesn’t own it—could barely afford a square foot of the sprawling
place—but until the new owner takes possession, she thinks of it as hers.
Mostly because her beloved neighbor, Maeve Hollins, had always made her
feel like it was her home away from home.
Maeve and Elisha’s grandma Lou, may they both rest in peace, had been
lifelong best friends who adored romance, cocktails, and Christmas—not
necessarily in that order. As a child, Elisha had always considered Maeve’s
house their clubhouse: a place to go after school for Maeve’s famous
hallongrotta, the sweet and crumbly raspberry thumbprint butter cookies
that were a staple of Elisha’s childhood, and back-to-back romantic movies.
Much to Maeve’s and Lou’s amusement, by age ten, she was mouthing
along with the dialogue of her favorite movies, and by twelve, she knew
them by heart.
And this was her first Christmas without either of them.
If Maeve’s mischievous cats, Thor and Thorin, hadn’t woken her up—
well-timed swishing tails in the face and headbutts to the kidneys—she
would have slept right through the lights flicking on across the street.
Before she’d even had the chance to blink the sleep out of her eyes, her
protective instinct had kicked in. How dare someone break in.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Elisha huffs. It’s six a.m. and she should
still be snuggled into her warm flannel sheets, waiting for the smell of
hazelnut coffee to wake her. Instead, she’s seriously contemplating
violence. “You’re a determined thief, I’ll give you that.”
The figure’s blurred shadow moves behind Maeve’s living room
windows. Elisha can’t be sure, but it looks like they’re searching for
something. Her eyes narrow, her toes curl tight.
It’s the first of December, which puts this affront right on schedule.
Every December, tourists made the trek to their Poconos mountain town of
Piney Peaks for photo ops with Maeve’s house, which had become famous
for its role in the 1974 classic film Sleighbells under Starlight. Elisha is
used to seeing total strangers flirt with trespass, but without Maeve here to
find it charming and invite them in for hot cocoa and a cozy chat . . .
No one’s breaking in on Elisha’s watch.
She’s already marching over when it occurs to her that it might not be
the best idea in the world to surprise an intruder empty-handed. Without
breaking stride, she snatches one of her mother’s giant plastic candy canes
lining the driveway. Despite the size, it’s flimsier than she expected,
weighing
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