I'll Be Gone for Christmas: A Novel

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For fans ofThe Holidaycomes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in which finding yourself and finding love come hand in hand.

Bee Tyler needs a break. In the bustling San Francisco tech community, no one ever seems to stand stillespecially her perfect sister and business partner, Beth. So when her best friend suggests a getaway on the wildly popular house-swap app, Vacate, Bee decides a countryside retreat might be exactly what she needs.

Clover Mills has had a year. Between losing her mother and making the complicated decision to leave her fianc, sticking around the idyllic Christmas obsessed town of Salem, Ohio, just doesnt feel right. So when she hears about Vacate, she jumps at the chance to spend the holidays in the unfamiliar city of San Francisco.

Soon enough, Bee is living in Clovers cozy Salem cottage, and Clover is living in Bees sleek San Francisco apartment. As Clover cant seem to stop running into Bees frustratingly gorgeous sister, Beth, and Bee finds herself spending more and more time with Clovers ultra charming ex-fianc, Knox, the two women realize that this Christmas they may find just what they were looking for and more...

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"With dual settings, interconnected storylines, and endearing characters, Boones debut offers a fast-paced, warm holiday romance with wide-ranging appeal." Library Journal(starred review) Though this is certainly a book about finding love, these two slow-burn romances leave plenty of room for holiday shenanigans and show that a family is something you can make, not just something you are born with. Oprah Daily

Author Bio

Georgia K. Boone is a writer, a poet, and the daughter of storytellers. Sometimes, she writes songs she may one day share. Once, in a Brooklyn community center, she read James Baldwins quote You cant tell the children theres no hope, and she carries those words from the city to the desert and beyond. She lives on the West Coast with her family.