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

“This isn’t about him and what he will do. This man has wandered, looking for you like a lost dog. This is about you, David. This about whether you can forgive him enough to take a chance.”


“I don’t know the answer to that yet.”


“So then I think it’s time you found out. When you go to dinner tonight, can you take the lemons I left on the table? I promised your friend I would send him some, plus you don’t want to go empty handed.”


“Okay,” David said. “All of them?”


“Oh, yes. All of them,” Marisol said.


A few hours later, when David was exiting the shower, he heard something knocking around on the porch. He threw on a robe and ran to the balcony door. Outside, the wind was howling and the bumping continued. Locating the source of the noise, he walked across the balcony and picked it up.


“What the hell? I thought I brought you in last time I was here,” David mumbled, picking up the dark blue metal telescope and carrying it inside. 7


Chapter 21