A few days before Christmas, David Weathers finds himself hopping a plane to his childhood home in Florida and doesn’t know why. His parents are gone, he has no siblings, yet something draws him on.<br><br>David can almost feel the magic in the air, but then he discovers Jared Acosta, the man who broke his heart twenty years earlier, has moved three doors away. Reluctantly David accepts Jared’s invitation to dinner, only to find that twenty years may not be enough for some wounds to heal.<br><br>Soon David seeks advice from his mother’s best friend Marisol, a vibrant, wise woman who believes in second chances. Can she convince David to take a chance on the man who is working so hard to be near him now? Will he be able to forgive a past that left both him and Jared unlucky in love?

Little Tree

Jared chuckled, his eyes lighting up. “I thought you were a New Yorker now.”


“You’ve been keeping tabs on me?” David asked with a smile.


“I might have Googled you from time to time,” Jared admitted, shrugging his shoulders as a smile creeped up his face.


“Well, as long as we’re making that confession. My research led me to believe that you were in Colorado,” David volunteered, running a hand through his hair.


“I moved back to Florida,” Jared explained. “I found a job in Jax and moved here about five years ago.”


“You didn’t want one in Miami? I mean, to be near your dad.”


“I wanted to be here,” Jared replied.


“So you bought the house down the street?” David asked.


“I lived in an apartment over on Southside Boulevard for a few years, and I kept my eye on this neighborhood, waiting to see if anything good opened up.”


“You remembered the neighborhood that well? You were only here once, a weekend that summer after graduation.”


Chapter 4