title: Crashing Into Christmas - Where Family Traditions, Holiday Joy, and Seasonal Scandals Collide
author:  Yvonne Lehman 
description: Yvonne Lehman, best-selling author of more than 3,000,000 books in print, founded and directed the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference for twenty-five years. She now directs the Blue Ridge Autumn in the Mountains Novelist Retreat. Lehman earned a Masters Degree in English from Western Carolina University and has taught English and creative writing on the college level. She is the author of a three-book series set in Savannah GA (Harlequin Heartsong), and <i>Hearts of Carolina</i>, a series of eight novels (four in NC, four in SC) published by Greenbrier Books. <br /><br /> Her fiftieth novel, <i>Hearts that Survive  A Novel of the TITANIC</i> (Abingdon), is available in bookstores and at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forg, TN where she periodically holds book signings. Her first non-fiction book is <i>Divine Moments</i> (Grace Publishing) is a compilation of 50 articles written by various authors. She blogs at christiansread.com and Novel Rocket Blog.
zlib_text: VICTORIA PADE
  A Family For The Holidays
  
  Contents
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 1
  Dax Traub’s motorcycle sales and repair shop in the heart of Thunder
  Canyon might as well not have been open on the Monday before
  Thanksgiving. It was after four o’clock in the afternoon, and not a single
  person had come through the glass door or so much as paused to peer into the
  showroom through the storefront windows. He’d spent the day doing exactly
  what he was doing at that moment—reading articles in motorcycle magazines
  that were depressing the hell out of him. Articles that—once upon a time—
  had been about him. Articles that could have been about him now, had things
  turned out differently.
  “Scooz me.”
  The radio was on in the background, and at first Dax thought the small,
  quiet voice had come from there. But then he realized that a song was playing
  and that didn’t seem likely.
  Maybe I’m hearing things… “Scooz