First read: 3.5 stars ( )

Wow! There is a serious breach of medical ethics that begins this short story (at one point with the doc's son present) that I just couldn't push out of my mind. And the bitch caricature of the mom? Yeah, just didn't work for me.

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Seth is dumped some day before Christmas on the phone. It's not a good start to face Christmas alone, above all since Seth was planning to spend Christmas with his lover alone. To add physical pain to the emotional, Seth has a stupid accident the day before Christmas and he is now in the ER... but maybe not all is bad as it seems, since the nice doctor who is tending him is also handsome and funny, with his fake reindeer antlers on his head. But while Seth is wondering how to approach the man, a nasty woman with a ten years old boy arrives to the ER to dump the doctor's son...

Noah is out and gay, and what it could be the worst event in his life, it came out with the wonderful thing possible, his son Brady. And now on his ER there is a nice man that he would be glad to know better.

It's all about good feeling in this Christmas novel: Seth is a nice guy who will love to have a family, Noah is a nice doctor with a family ready for Seth and Brady is a nice boy maybe a bit too old for his ten years. There is no drama here, the only nasty thing is Noah's ex wife, but since the reader should not feel guilty for her to spend the Christmas without his son, it's only right that she is a bitch, so no one is unhappy. Things flow easily toward an happily ever after that it's almost too good to be true, but then, it's Christmas time!

In 50 pages of good feelings, new author Bethany Brown writes a very nice Christmas story.

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