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THE MANNINGS

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There’s Something About Christmas

Debbie Macomber

www.mirabooks.co.uk (http://www.mirabooks.co.uk)

To Emma Ingram (the real Emma) and her mother

Contents

Cover (#u81bc9fde-41ba-5b88-baeb-abbd317b8b8c)

Also by Debbie Macomber (#u17a297b8-a3a7-5127-bd62-cece6ef24ccc)

Title Page (#uf2656055-3403-56ce-8a66-e23eaf599d1b)

Dedication (#ua310f392-0677-5416-8d53-627c5f0c7e7c)

Chapter One (#u7fdcf251-42c6-5e41-8f41-a73ad097965e)

Chapter Two (#u5b1574ff-ef04-5efb-9e0b-a339ddd373f2)

Chapter Three (#u46a13ae0-2895-5ae6-a3a8-481deed6b3dc)

Chapter Four (#u8b73d2b7-0f57-51e6-84f1-ece7d1fbbf4c)

Chapter Five (#u7623ade7-d39a-5fb9-acce-8691f153b5d7)

Chapter Six (#u11255352-4bca-5f6c-a588-b428bff34293)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Bonus story (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#u15f9464a-df7d-526d-9f1f-73953c500b42)

On that cold day I was born, in February 1955, my great-aunt gave me a classic fruitcake for the celebration of the occasion of my birth. Every year during the holidays I pull it out of the attic and take a look at it and it still looks great, and every year I try to get up the nerve to take a slice and try it.

—Dean Fearing, chef of The Mansion on Turtle Creek

This job was going to kill her yet.