title: Once Upon a Christmas: A Wynter Family Saga
author:  Maggie Robinson 
description: <b>Maggie Robinson</b> is a former teacher, library clerk and mother of four who woke up in the middle of the night, absolutely compelled to create the perfect man and use as many adjectives and adverbs as possible doing so. A transplanted New Yorker, she lives with her not-quite perfect husband in Maine, where the cold winters are ideal for staying inside and writing hot historical romances. Her books have been or will be translated into French, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Dutch and Italian. She is an RT Reviewers' Choice two-time nominee.<br /><br />Deciding that life had far more to offer than a nine to five job, bickering children and housework of any kind (unless she's on a deadline when everything is magically spotless), <b>Tiffany Clare</b> opened up her laptop to write stories she could get lost in. Tiffany writes historical romances set in the Victorian era and is currently working on a new novel. She lives in Toronto with her husband, two kids and two dogs.<br /><br /><b>J.K. Coi</b> is a multi-published, award winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She makes her home in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and son and a feisty black cat who is the uncontested head of the household. While she spends her days immersed in the litigious world of insurance law, she is very happy to spend her nights writing dark and sexy characters who leap off the page and into readers' hearts.<br /><br /><b>Elyssa Patrick</b><span>is a former high school English teacher who left the classroom to pursue her dream of writing romances. She writes quirkyromantic comedies and contemporary romances that are full of humor, heat, and heart. Elyssa lives in New York and is hard at work on her next novel.</span>
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  **The Homecoming**  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Homecoming  
  Copyright © 1970, 2014 by Earl Hamner, Jr.  
  Cover art, special contents, and Electronic Edition © 2014 by RosettaBooks LLC
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage
  and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher,
  except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
  
  
  Cover design by Alexia Garaventa  
  ISBN e-Pub edition: 9780795339493
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For Scott and Carrie_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
  _It is remembered in my family that on Christmas Eve of 1933 my father was
  late arriving home. That, along with the love he and my mother bestowed upon
  their eight red-headed offspring, is fact. The rest is fiction._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # **A NOTE TO THE READER**
  
  
  If you have seen THE WALTONS on television then you 