Christmas In America

By Mathis B Rogers

Janice Bridges was born in Rapid City, SD, but her parents moved to Jamaica afterwards. She has never seen the snow, or felt the cold. This Christmas the family chooses to spend in Rapid City. Will she freeze to death, or find warmth and romance from a friendly neighbor?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mathis B Rogers
• Release date: Apr 11, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458013668

Mathis B Rogers

Mathis B. Rogers was born in Shamrock, Texas, and was raised all over the Texas Panhandle and South Plains of West Texas.He began writing when he was thirteen and while working the Night Audit (graveyard shift) for motels, he was able to be very prolific. Mathis enjoys writing and when someone asks him how to write, he replies, "It's just daydreaming and writing it down."

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Christmas in America

Mathis B. Rogers

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 

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Janice Bridges stood looking out the window, watching the falling snow. This was the first winter she was not going to spend in Jamaica, where she lived and was raised.

Sure, she'd visited her grandparents' ranch in America every summer, but she'd only seen pictures and movies of snow and had never even felt cold weather. Now she couldn't believe she was standing there watching the snow falling on the ranch outside of Rapid City, South Dakota.

She put her hand on the windowpane and felt the cold. She shuttered; how could anyone stand it? She was used to running down the beach about this time of year, two weeks before Christmas. Christmas was usually spent on her father's yacht in the Caribbean.

It's beautiful, isn't it? Alice Bridges asked walking up behind her.

Yes, Ma'am, she replied. "But it's too cold. I'd