Single mom Leah Shriver is doing her best. But raising a teen boy who grunts and barely speaks doesn't help, especially when her life has been turned upside down. Then she meets Brody Holt. The six-foot two inch brick wall of muscle is a workman; a handyman who fixes things. A man who's recently been dealt a blow. Attracting attention when he doesn't seek it is a hazard that Brody's gotten used to. Women seem to like a strapping man with a tool belt around his waist. But then he meets a woman who isn't trying to catch his eye. A woman who wants to be left alone. is alone, in the one place she shouldn't be. And he finds himself in the peculiar position of having to catch her eye. A CHRISTMAS WISH is the ninth book in the Starling Bay series. It is a STANDALONE romance and can be read without having to read the earlier books.