Synopsis
The countdown to Christmas 2021 begins in three... two... one...
Three swanky holiday parties in a Downtown Boston market on Christmas Eve.
Two strangers taken hostage as hundreds of innocent lives are on the line.
One desperate attempt to save them all.
Silvie Livingston wants nothing more than a quiet Christmas at home after the hellish year she's had. She's sick of the festive decorations and smiling people that seem to be in every corner of Boston this winter. In fact, she'd prefer that the holidays weren't even happening.
Tending a broken heart after her mother's sudden passing, licking her wounds after being fired from her dream job, and frustrated with her aging father over his stubborn resistance to accepting her help, Silvie would just as soon skip right to January and get on with her broken life. After all, at nearly forty and still single, it isn't like she has someone special to enjoy the holidays with, anyway.
Reluctantly, Silvie agrees to attend a fancy holiday party— a corporate affair hosted by the company she's recently done some contract work for. She wants to remain in their good graces to keep what trickle of income is flowing her way, so she dons her finest attire, tacks on her best fake-it-until-you-make-it smile, and shows up to the swanky event in downtown on Christmas Eve. Little does she know what danger awaits.
Meanwhile, Wes Jones is the polar opposite. He enjoys the holidays and spreads cheer everywhere he goes. He's the guy who wears a Santa hat to the grocery store and ties jingle bells to the rearview mirror of his SUV each December.
Wes' enthusiasm makes sense. His life is going beautifully. He's in negotiations to sell his popular tech startup for an obscene sum of money, he's written a book that's topping the bestseller lists, and he has the very best friends who love and support him. But he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when the wedding of one of his old college buddies takes him downtown this fateful Christmas Eve.
Soon wrapped up in a startling situation and held against their will, Silvie and Wes must rely on each other if they want to make it out alive.
The Merry is an emotional, suspense-filled novel full of thrills and high stakes. It's the perfect holiday page-turner to curl up with.
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Release date: September 24, 2021
Publisher: Standards of Starlight
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