title: Snowbird Christmas: Holiday Stories to Warm Your Heart
author: Nancy L. Quatrano
description: Contributing authors include beginners to the craft as well as experienced, award-winning short story authors and teachers. While many belong to organizations like Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Liberty States Fiction Writers and Florida Writers Association, affiliation with any of these organizations was not required.
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  _**Contents**_
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
   _An Excerpt from_ Sweet Little Lies
  
   _An Excerpt from_ The Trouble with Mistletoe
  
   _An Excerpt from_ Accidentally on Purpose
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _By Jill Shalvis_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _About the Publisher_
  
  _**Chapter One**_
  
  CHRISTMAS EVE HAD the nerve to show up just like it did every year: way too
  quickly and with ridiculous fanfare.
  
  The nerve.
  
  Rory Andrews stood in the courtyard of the Pacific Pier Building in San
  Francisco, surrounded by sparkly holiday lights and enough garlands to give
  the place its own ozone, and told herself things could be worse.
  
  She just wasn’t sure how.
  
  It was the unknown, she decided. Because this year, unlike the past six, she’d
  be spending Christmas with her family, a thought that caused a swarm of
  butterflies to take flight in her belly.
  
  Not an uncommon feeling since