The tree is up. Most of the prezzies are bought (I’ve been doing that all year), and plans are made. (Here's a shot of my baby, with 3 of my favorite ornaments winking in the picture...)
Yes, I love Christmas. I apologize to you if you don’t, ‘cause, I get it. There are a bunch of reasons not to. I’ve experienced a lot of those reasons myself.
Still, I adore Christmas.
For me, it’s the season of all good things. There’s an abundance of goodies. Shortbread cookies, sweet treats, Irish cream, yum! More importantly though, it’s a season of kindness, when we tend to put a magnifying glass on goodness, on seeing to it that everyone has enough. That no one is overlooked, or forgotten.
And that matters most of all, to me.
My character, Emily Gates, in It Started with a Candy Cane, is one of those young women. At first glance, she’s all about the bling. Really, all about the bling. I mean, who visits a rustic, northern Canadian town dressed in all cream? Emily, of course. She can’t wait to get back to her high fashion area of Toronto (Yonge Street, around the Esplanade), back to her job as a city planner, and she resents the fact she can’t be there to see the big Christmas display she created.
Yet, the more we get to know her, the more we see there are depths in this young woman that she herself doesn’t realize.
When the town’s butcher sees her, the dude’s a goner. Yet, he’s got a very important mission. And even though he’s besotted with her, that mission comes first.
When he and Emily finally meet up one night as her world falls apart, he invites her to come along on his infamous Candy Cane run. This is a journey into the depths of the northern bush, the night before Christmas Eve. And when she does, her life literally changes.
This is one of the many books in the Real Men series. It’s a novella, the other novella in the series being It Started on a Back Road. Many of the other characters you’ll meet here have full stories in the series, such as Real Deep, Real Hero, and Real Miracle. Yet It Started with a Candy Cane is one of my absolute favorites because of the one thing it really focuses on, through all the fun, the surprises and the soul-searching Emily ends up doing: kindness.
if you’d love a short, sweet-hearted, yet intriguing escape just about now, if you’re so inclined, pick up It Started with a Candy Cane, and possibly some of the companion books in the series. Readers seem to love it. I know I still have a soft spot for Emily and Rufus, as well as the wonderul, worthy people they meet on that midnight candy cane run...the one I'm itching to take myself.
It Started with a Candy Cane*
by Susan Saxx
Amazon
Sweet Romance Edition
Other Retailers
Sensual Romance Edition
* Bonus Recipes for Stuffing & Moose-poo Shortbread Cookies included
In Other News
I'm furiously working on another Christmas story, folks. This is for my m/m romance series, and revolves around a little girl who's finally found her forever family, and her first Christmas. Everyone seems to love Trasher, the little girl who cannonballs into the first book of this series.
If I get it done in time...you'll hear about it!
In the meantime, have a lovely pre-Christmas season, and I hope you can actually take some time to sip cocoa, look at the lights, and enjoy whatever you really love. See you in your inbox in 2 weeks. Feel free to hit reply and say hi :) - I welcome it. And in the meantime...
Happy Escaping! 
Susan
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Susan Saxx is an Amazon bestselling author. She writes small town romance. Some of it is sexy, some is blisteringly hot, and some is sweet - because it all depends on the couple!
To see the books in each heat level, go here: Susan's Series
Susan writes in the m/m genre as well.
She also unabashedly loves the various holidays, and Christmas. :)
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