Bailey Peters is loving life. Scouted all the way from Adelaide, he’s been handed the Captain’s armband for the A-League’s newest soccer team, and he’s living on the Gold Coast, visiting beaches and enjoying the endless buffet of bikini-wearing beauties. Sure, his new coach gets under his skin with his cocky ‘I was a Premier League player’ attitude, and sometimes Bailey gets homesick, but these are minor issues he can deal with.
Except it turns out his coach is struggling behind the scenes, and that changes things.
English expat and former pro-football player August (AJ) Jacobs is floundering. Having aged out of...
Bailey Peters is loving life. Scouted all the way from Adelaide, he’s been handed the Captain’s armband for the A-League’s newest soccer team, and he’s living on the Gold Coast, visiting beaches and enjoying the endless buffet of bikini-wearing beauties. Sure, his new coach gets under his skin with his cocky ‘I was a Premier League player’ attitude, and sometimes Bailey gets homesick, but these are minor issues he can deal with.
Except it turns out his coach is struggling behind the scenes, and that changes things.
English expat and former pro-football player August (AJ) Jacobs is floundering. Having aged out of the career he loved, he’s just moved to Australia to start a new job coaching. Unfortunately, the Captain of his team hates him, and the hot weather on the Gold Coast is unbearable. Then life throws him another curveball in the shape of a six-year-old daughter he hadn’t known existed and it’s all in time for an ungodly humid Christmas, too. A Christmas he now must make child friendly, when he’d planned on drinking and wallowing in loneliness.
Bah-freaking-humbug!
Just when AJ thinks things can’t get worse, Bailey —the pain in his backside— Peters inserts himself into the situation and he’s certain it’s all going to end in disaster.
However, they do say Christmas is a time for miracles! Against all odds, it looks like AJ and Bailey might just be each other’s.
Written in 3rd person POV, A Surprise for the Holidays is a sweet, fluffy MM Christmas novella with a grumpy former soccer player turned coach, a golden retriever younger player, and a precocious little girl. It contains some hurt/comfort elements, anxiety, unexpected parenthood, and a bi-awakening. Featuring an Aussie Christmas (set on the Gold Coast), grumpy/sunshine vibes, an age gap and sand where youre used to snow, this novella brings additional heat to the festive season in more ways than one! It contains scenes suitable for readers over the age of 18.
