Next Door Santa

By S L Hollister

Kayla never expected her hot neighbor of being a member of the local Santa Patrol, as if he wasn't perfect enough already. Shy, plump, divorced librarian Kayla relocated to New Bern after her divorce and has yet to brave the dating world but that doesn't keep her from drooling over her hot neighbor, Rylan. When Rylan sets his sights on Kayla as his Mrs. Santa, she's not sure whether to run away or into the adventure he's offering. But Rylan is determined to show her the magic of Christmas in eastern North Carolina and the adventure of falling in love again. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dragonfly River Press
• Release date: Nov 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223865810

S L Hollister

People have often asked me why I don’t write about my adventures raising six sons. I have to admit that I prefer to write their stories as fiction because no one believes the stuff they put me through if I tell it as fact. In fiction I can clean my boys up a little when I like them and make them the heroes of my stories and if they’ve pissed me off, I can make them the villains. It’s been a running joke around our house that mom will put you in her book and kill you off on page fifty, but some know they’re the smelly corpse discovered in the ditch at the very beginning of the story. Heck, it’s not even a threat anymore my grandkids are begging to be put in my books and even telling me how I can kill them off. I mean really, where’s the threat in that? We put the fun in dysfunctional, what can I say? I have long conversations with my children and grandchildren about blowing things up and how to get rid of bodies. The holidays are never boring around our house.

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Next Door Santa

S L Hollister

Published by Dragonfly River Press, 2023.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

NEXT DOOR SANTA

First edition. November 20, 2023.

Copyright © 2023 S L Hollister.

Written by S L Hollister.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Next Door Santa

Further Reading: Remy's Dilemma

Also By S L Hollister

About the Author

About the Publisher

You’d make a sexy Mrs. Santa, the store Santa called to her as she walked past, intent on her shopping. 

Kayla wouldn’t have stopped, but the voice was familiar. Turning around, she went back to see and yes, sure enough, the store Santa was her neighbor, Rylan. Rylan James was the last person she’d have associated with a store Santa. What are you doing? She whispered, barely holding back a laugh. 

He shrugged his broad shoulders. My buddy is the store’s manager, and he needed a Santa quick. He knew I had a suit.

Kayla pursed her lips, her smile barely containing the laughter that threatened to spill out. You already had a Santa suit? She noted his suit wasn’t the traditional costume she was used to seeing. It wasn’t velvet or fake fur, nor was it trimmed with lots of white fluff. Rylan looked like a sexy lumberjack with his red and green plaid shirt, quilted red