Leigh Jarrett

Christmas Blues


Ryan thought he’d already had his one great love. He never imagined the next one would be Michael Sanderson.

Four years after losing his wife, Ryan Middleton has built his entire world around his three children. Between work, school schedules, and the endless chaos of single fatherhood, there isn’t much room left for anything else—especially romance.

Then Michael walks back into his life. Once the annoying kid who followed Ryan’s younger brother everywhere, Michael is all grown up now: confident, irresistible, divorced, and every bit as devoted to his own children as Ryan is to his.

What begins with shared memories, a love of the blues, and two exhausted dads trying to survive their kids soon becomes something Ryan never saw coming. Friendship turns into desire. Desire becomes impossible to ignore. And for the first time since his wife died, Ryan begins imagining a future he never knew he wanted.

But falling for Michael means confronting more than his own unexpected feelings. Michael has an ex-wife determined to pull him back into the life he left behind, Ryan’s family may not understand what’s happening between them, and five children stand to have their worlds changed forever.