"It's you!" I gasped my eyes widening in shock as Racheal introduced him to me. The very same man whom I had a one night stand with last year, even had a steamy hot session with a few hours ago at a bar was being introduced to me as what? Her Dad?! I felt my whole world spin. I must be crazy! I must really be going crazy! of all the things that could happen to one in this world. I had to be sexually involved with my friend's father?! _________________________________________________________________________________________ "Don't! we can't. We can't do this?!" I whispered to him as he pinned me down against the Kitchen wall. "You think I don't know that?" he asked me gritting his teeth "Then why?" "Because i can't stay away from you?!" ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Twenty-two Carla and has spent years hating Christmas—the lights, the music, the forced joy—all reminders of the holiday that shattered her family when her parents’ divorce became final. Determined to avoid the season once again, she is reluctantly tricked by her best friend, Racheal, into spending Christmas at her family home. What Carla doesn’t expect is to come face-to-face with Isaac Shellman—Racheal’s father—and the man she once shared a nameless, unforgettable night with as a stranger. Isaac never planned to fall in love again. A widower and devoted father, his past mistakes taught him caution—until one unexpected connection at a bar made him believe his heart had moved on against his will. When identities are revealed and secrets surface, guilt, desire, and betrayal collide, threatening to destroy a friendship and fracture a family. Carla must confront her trauma, Isaac must choose between love and fatherhood, and Racheal must face the painful truth of feeling replaced by the two people she trusted most.