The Reason for the Season
READING AGE 18+
Do you know the reason for the season?
College student Austin Emerson is just trying to make it to his sister’s for the holiday break. He didn’t count on his car’s transmission failing, his ride taking off to Vegas with his gas money, or what the weather forecasters are calling the snowpocalypse. With his options dwindling, Austin takes a chance with a stranger’s number from the campus ride share. It’s only a nine-hour drive, what can go wrong?
Taciturn Maddox Brennan has his own reason for driving from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Flint in the middle of a snowstorm. One he’s not willing to share. When the storm of the century leaves them stranded at a motel, neither one is prepared for their developing closeness. What will happen when the plows make it through? Will they go their separate ways, or will they find there’s more than one reason they were brought together this season?
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Austin bunched his pillow between his arm and his ear, his attention fixed on the bed next to him. Darkness cloaked the room, patches of light sneaking past the curtains when the clouds allowed, but Austin knew Maddox was there by his restless movements. Each creak of the mattress drew Austin’s attention no matter how he tried to……
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