
Haven Vadillo gets grumpy during the season of good cheer. Everything bad in his life has happened to him during the twelfth month of the year. He was kicked out of his home by his parents in December. He found out too late that Hamish Abernathy, the man he fell in love with in college, had a boyfriend -- also in December. He just can’t seem to catch a break.
Years later -- you guessed it -- in December, Hamish turns up in his life once more, and Haven isn’t sure what to think. And the confessions and accusations that fly during their first meeting in over a decade don’t help.
Can these two men work their way through misunderstandings and hurt feelings to make this Christmas a season worth celebrating?

Ho, Ho, Grump By J.D. Walker It wasn’t that I hated Christmas. Well, maybe I did, a little. I mean, everything bad in my life had occurred during the season of so-called joy and glad tidings. My parents kicked me out in the month of December on my seventeenth birthday when I told them I was gay. I was their only child, I had good grades, I was at the top of my class, president of numerous clubs, blah, blah, but it didn’t matter. I was no longer following the accepted path to greatness that every Vadillo had trod for generations. Before I left, however, I had taken the things I had paid for with money I had earned from tutoring, which thankfully included warm clothing and gloves because it had been f*****g cold outside. I had looked at my parents one last time, trying to find some kind
