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    Island Christmas: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #2
    Island Christmas: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #2
    Island Christmas: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #2
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    Island Christmas: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #2

    By M. L. Buchman

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    Home for the holidays, with friends, should be worry free…

     

    For the first time in years, Miranda has invited guests to her San Juan Islands cabin for Christmas—her NTSB air-crash investigation team. She's not sure it was the best decision.

     

    When more of her past flies in on Christmas Eve, it proves to be an even greater challenge than she expected. But, with the help of her past and her team, perhaps she can find the feeling of that true Christmas spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBuchman Bookworks, Inc.
    Release dateDec 12, 2020
    ISBN9781393136354
    Island Christmas: Miranda Chase Origin Stories, #2
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    M. L. Buchman

    USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

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      Island Christmas - M. L. Buchman

      Island Christmas

      Island Christmas

      a Miranda Chase origin story

      M. L. Buchman

      Buchmann Bookworks, Inc.

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      About This Title

      Home for the holidays, with friends, should be worry free…

      For the first time in years, Miranda has invited guests to her San Juan Islands cabin for Christmas—her NTSB air-crash investigation team. She’s not sure it was the best decision.

      When more of her past flies in on Christmas Eve, it proves to be an even greater challenge than she expected. But, with the help of her past and her team, perhaps she can find the feeling of that true Christmas spirit.

      1

      Okay, I have a good story. On—

      We’ve already heard that one, mate, Holly cut Jeremy off before he could even get out a second word.

      Everyone started laughing, even Jeremy after he recovered from Holly’s friendly wallop on the back. It had knocked most of the air out of him, and almost flattened him onto the wire racks of Christmas cookies waiting their turn.

      Miranda didn’t understand why all three of them were laughing.

      She liked Jeremy’s stories. Holly’s were always so wild. Mike’s often had strange plot twists she couldn’t follow. Of the members on her NTSB air-crash investigation team, Jeremy’s stories always worked the best for her.

      If he was retelling a story, how could that single, two-letter word a sufficient clue for everyone except her?

      Wait, this was one of those moments. The ones that she wrote down in her personal notebook for later study. She could picture the page heading: Appropriate Reactions. Always a problem for people on the autism spectrum. But she was trying to get better at it.

      When people laughed quickly, it meant…

      A joke. She’d missed a joke. If they weren’t amused by Jeremy’s untold and as-yet-unidentified story, it was because… Oh! Cutting off Jeremy before the storytelling actually began was the joke.

      By the time Miranda joined in the laugh, everyone else had stopped, leaving hers ringing alone in the cozy kitchen. She sighed, to herself. So, what else was new? She focused out the window on the storm clouds building to the west over Vancouver Island.

      Mike nudged her with an elbow before he dipped the end of another coconut macaroon into dark chocolate and then a swish through the dish of sprinkles. You got a joke, Miranda. Well done you.

      He understood. He even said it softly so that the others didn’t hear. Holly and Jeremy were busy threatening to face-paint each other with icing anyway.

      She greatly appreciated that he never became frustrated with her about any of her shortcomings.

      They’d been together as a team for a year, and Mike always understood. Of course, that was his

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