The Last Noel

It is Christmas Eve in New England, and a storm has shut down the region. Two violent convicts who have broken out of prison force their way into the O'Boyle home, looking for shelter and armed with a pair of Smith & Wessons.

Skyler O'Boyle decides the family can survive the night only if they play a psychological game that keeps the intruders off balance. She needs the rest of the household to go along with it, because every hour they gain is an hour in which help might come. Her one hope is that the men do not know her daughter, Kat, has slipped out into the blizzard.

Outside, Kat has little chance against the wind and snow. She comes across a third escaped felon, half-frozen and delirious, and recognizes him at once as Craig Devon, the man she once loved. She cannot understand why he is back in town, or why he is with these men.

Craig carries a secret that could alter the family's fate, and he is desperate to hand it over. Telling Kat the truth could cost him everything he has given up to get here. The book is a suspense novel with a romantic past at its center, set over a single night in a house under siege and a storm that leaves no way out.