{"id":326,"date":"2018-12-20T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=326"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:34:05","slug":"a-marietta-christmas","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/books\/a-marietta-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marietta Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-d18d8c2c81d10022ebd21ffa95322c35 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-326'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-616c7d886677502b865b24e6dbabc4d1\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-616c7d886677502b865b24e6dbabc4d1{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-616c7d886677502b865b24e6dbabc4d1 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-616c7d886677502b865b24e6dbabc4d1 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-616c7d886677502b865b24e6dbabc4d1 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >A Marietta Christmas<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-9497bbf8bff73ea4c6992cc17fa9ec36 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>It\u2019s the week before Christmas and all through Marietta no one is stirring&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Except in Grey\u2019s Saloon where a sack full of hotties from last year\u2019s calendar shoot are toasting another joyful Marietta Christmas with their lady loves\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But there are a few surprise gifts in store\u00a0waiting to be unwrapped by\u00a0Charlie and Logan, Emily and Lyle, Gabriella and Kyle, Molly and Todd, and Keely and Jonah \u2013 which are naughty <em>and<\/em> nice!<\/p>\n<p>So come join in the good cheer, have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><em>A short story spin off from the 2017 Men of Marietta series!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tulepublishing.com\/series\/men-of-marietta\/\"><strong>Men of Marietta<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When there isn\u2019t\u00a0enough money to make Harry\u2019s House a functional after school center, the Montana First Responders decide they need to step up, and really turn up the heat. The\u00a0Men of Marietta Calendar is created\u00a0with pages filled\u00a0of sexy guys willing to do just about anything for a great cause\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p># 1: <em>Tempting the Deputy<\/em> by Heidi Rice<\/p>\n<p># 2: <em>Flirting with Fire<\/em> by Kate Hardy<\/p>\n<p># 3: <em>Daring the Pilot<\/em> by Jeannie Moon<\/p>\n<p># 4: <em>Falling for the Ranger<\/em> by Kaylie Newell<\/p>\n<p># 5: <em>Burning with Desire<\/em> by Patricia W Fischer<\/p>\n<p># 6: <em>A Marietta Christmas<\/em> by Heidi Rice<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-a258bbb44a66cef0afb12d49d5bc1446\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a258bbb44a66cef0afb12d49d5bc1446 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-a258bbb44a66cef0afb12d49d5bc1446 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-a258bbb44a66cef0afb12d49d5bc1446 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_button  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img class='wp-image-327 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-327 avia_image ' src='https:\/\/heidi-rice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018MoMAMariettaChristmas-website.jpg' alt='' title='2018MoMAMariettaChristmas-website'  height=\"600\" width=\"400\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-ee1cb9b04662614fd38b0a535702a2de-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_image  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/tulepublishingshop.com\/products\/a-marietta-christmas-a-short-story'  class='avia-button av-av_button-ee1cb9b04662614fd38b0a535702a2de avia-icon_select-no avia-size-medium avia-position-center avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Read for Free<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-av_section-e6a1d4415f00834e57075e9e0043e492 alternate_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_layout_row  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-326'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-a701df67fc882b7ec7e9f953f772e560\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-a701df67fc882b7ec7e9f953f772e560{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-a701df67fc882b7ec7e9f953f772e560 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-a701df67fc882b7ec7e9f953f772e560 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-a701df67fc882b7ec7e9f953f772e560 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-9  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Excerpt:<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Flipping heck, winters in Montana are bloody freezing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Foster did a whole body shiver as she slammed the truck door. She breathed into her hands which, despite wearing two pairs of gloves, were already feeling the chill, only two seconds after she\u2019d jumped out of the heated cab.<\/p>\n<p>The reflection of the fairy lights looped down Main Street twinkled in the frozen snow which edged the sidewalks as she headed across the courthouse\u2019s parking lot. Her destination: Grey\u2019s Saloon \u2013 and the now annual pre-Christmas get-together she, her twin sister Emily, Molly, Keely and Gabriella had organized for their own hotties and the seven other First Responder hunks Charlie had photographed a year and a half ago now for Marietta\u2019s very only charity calendar, <em>Marietta Men for All Seasons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Hottie-Toddy, as Charlie had christened their meet-up, had been arranged to celebrate the amazing sales of the first run of the calendar, and to launch the reprint Em had designed for the New Year. This year they had decided to do the get-together again the Friday evening before Marietta\u2019s Christmas Stroll \u2013 as a chance to catch up with everyone\u2019s business and enjoy a pre-Christmas drink now that Thanksgiving was out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d driven past Harry\u2019s House on the way here and hadn\u2019t been able to stop grinning at the sight of a group of carefree teenagers having a snowball war in the front yard. Harry\u2019s House was the reason they\u2019d all gotten together a year and a half ago. The calendar had been done to raise money for the house named after Harry Monroe, where kids that needed it could find a quiet place, or a friendly space, or even just someone to help them with their homework. And thanks to the spectacular sales of the Marietta Men for All Seasons calendar and a bunch of other great Marietta fund-raising initiatives, Harry\u2019s House was now doing what it was supposed to do \u2013 providing a backdrop for snowball armageddon.<\/p>\n<p>As she passed The Main Street Diner, still buzzing with the evening\u2019s supper crowd, her heart butted her tonsils. The kids who used Harry House weren\u2019t the only ones whose lives had benefited immensely from their calendar. Her whole life had been changed for the better in the last twenty months, too.<\/p>\n<p>After spending years wandering the UK and Europe and then the US, looking for the perfect shot as a freelance photographer and believing she didn\u2019t need or want a place of her own \u2013 she\u2019d somehow found her way home to this small Montana town, and made a space in her heart for her very own cowboy. Rancher and reserve sheriff\u2019s deputy Logan Tate. Aka Mr December.<\/p>\n<p>Her phone buzzed in her coat pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Her very own cowboy who was probably going to be scowling when she arrived at Grey\u2019s from the number of messages he\u2019d been sending her during her half-hour drive from their ranch The Double T. She hurried down the sidewalk, breathing heavily, and fished the phone out of her parka to read Logan\u2019s latest love text.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where the hell are you? Is everything okay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She could read the panic in his voice, and felt the familiar prickle of guilt. Better to keep walking and put him out of his misery than stop to text him a reply \u2013 especially as her fingers would probably freeze.<\/p>\n<p>It was only eight o\u2019clock. She was only half an hour late \u2013 not at all bad for her. Plus, she had a good reason for her tardiness, she thought, as she examined the screen saver she\u2019d uploaded to her phone before leaving the ranch.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d had important business in her dark room that couldn\u2019t be rushed, developing the batch of black-and-white shots she\u2019d taken that morning of Logan and his former ranch hand Flynn O\u2019Connell while Flynn\u2019s mare Baby gave birth to her first foal.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie clicked the photo app to admire her favorite shot from the shoot in more detail as she walked. Her breath clogged her lungs all over again.<\/p>\n<p>The close-up of Logan\u2019s hands as he wiped amniotic fluid off the newborn colt was like a snapshot of the man himself and everything she had come to adore about him. Scarred, tough, strong, gentle, his hands were beyond sexy, but also utterly dependable.<\/p>\n<p>She blinked back the sting of happy tears and shoved the phone back into her parka.<\/p>\n<p><em>Good grief Charlie, do not start crying or your lashes will freeze to your eyeballs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Honing in on the yellow glow of the lights from Grey\u2019s Saloon at the end of the block, she could hear the sound of music and laughter drifting into the night. She was just about to open the bar\u2019s doors when she spotted Lyle Tate\u2019s truck parked across the street in front of Marietta National Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Her heart lifted. Cool, Em must have gotten back from picking up her lover, Logan\u2019s brother Lyle, from his week-long smoke-jumper off-season training session in Bozeman. But then she squinted. Was that steam on the windows? And why did the truck appear to be rocking?<\/p>\n<p>A laugh popped out of her mouth as she realized what was going on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bloody hell, Em! 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