A Yuletide Blessing

A Yuletide Blessing is a story of long lost love that was always meant to be.

The tumultuous love affair between Pastor Daniel McLelland and Livia Ross began innocently in 1976 when they met at a coffee shop where Livia was buying coffee for herself and gingerbread cookies for her young daycare charges, Pastor McLelland recognized her from his church and asked impulsively if he might join Livia and the children at the playground.

There was something in the way Daniel helped the children on with their mittens and gently but firmly shepherded the crooked line down the street that touched Livia. It had been six months since her husband, Sam Ross, a war veteran plagued by flashbacks and bitterness left her to sort things out, and Liv was surprised at the tears Pastor McLelland’s unexpected kindness brought to her eyes.

They arranged to meet again—to walk and to talk—but when they stopped and she brushed a loose strand of hair out of her face, the gesture seemed to Daniel, strangely sensual. In the split second before their lips touch, Liv looked at him with eyes deep as pools and their lips met before either of them recognized their desperate need. A shudder slammed through Daniel as he held her, and he suddenly remembered what it was to feel like a man.