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Dawn invites Mattie to an easy, joyful gathering at a seaside village home, but Mattie must instead confront James’s heartbreak after he is jilted publicly. With James spending the holiday at Mattie’s house, she faces emotional distance, unspoken pain, and the pressure of announcing life-changing news—her pregnancy. The opening establishes tension between festive expectations and intimate vulnerability.","“You look so beautiful.”  \nJames’s eyes had that drenched look they always had after they’d made love, Mattie thought. They couldn’t keep their hands off each other. But beautiful? Well, she did her best. The russet-colored silk dress she was wearing was one of the “must haves” her friend had insisted she buy all those months ago. Soon she wouldn’t be able to get into it.  \nWhich was why she hadn’t wanted to come here tonight. She needed to tell James she was pregnant.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDIANA HAMILTON is a true romantic and fell in love with her husband at first sight. They still live in the fairy-tale Tudor house where they raised their three children. Now the idyll is shared with eight rescued cats and a puppy. But despite an often chaotic lifestyle, ever since she learned to read and write Diana has had her nose in a book—either reading or writing one—and plans to go on doing just that for a very long time to come.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBooks by Diana Hamilton  \nHARLEQUIN PRESENTS® 2132—BOUGHT: ONE HUSBAND 2178—CLAIMING HIS WIFE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDiana Hamilton  \nTHE CHRISTMAS CHILD  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nCHAPTER TWO  \nCHAPTER THREE  \nCHAPTER FOUR  \nCHAPTER FIVE  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nCHAPTER SEVEN  \nCHAPTER EIGHT  \nCHAPTER NINE  \nCHAPTER TEN  \nCHAPTER ELEVEN  \nCHAPTER TWELVE  \nCHAPTER THIRTEEN  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \n‘SO IT’S going to be your usual quiet Christmas,’ Dawn stated from the depths of the armchair which was cosily close to the state-of-the-art kitchen range.‘Poor old you! You really should learn to have fun, Matts—you never know, you might get to like it!’ Her soft, pretty mouth formed a small moue of condemnation as she wriggled her curvy body with barely suppressed excitement and Mattie, glancing across at her oldest and best friend, wondered if her mother would have loved her if she’d been more like Dawn, pretty and curvy, outgoing and bubbly, instead of—  \nShe pushed the thought roughly away. All that was over. Her mother had died nine years ago, for heaven’s sake, when Mattie had been just sixteen and there was no point at all in dwelling on the past—nothing would bring it back, or alter it.  \n‘Whereas your place will be bursting at the seams,’ Mattie put in through a gentle smile, sensing her friend’s excitement and knowing the reason for it. She reached for her reading glasses and peered at the recipe book. At Christmas time especially, The Old Rectory on the other side of the picture-book Sussex village would act like a magnet for the large and happily uncomplicated family Dawn’s parents had created. And the rambling, slightly shabby house would be filled with children and grandchildren, love and laughter.  \nIn stark contrast to the rather austere grandeur of this place, the home she shared with her widowed father.  \n‘The whole shooting match,’ Dawn agreed comfortably, her hazel eyes bright as she raised her left hand and gazed at the emerald sparkling on herring finger.‘Plus Frank and his parents,’ she added breathily.‘They’ll be arriving tomorrow, Christmas Eve, so you’re invited for lunch on Christmas Day—bring your father—with Mrs Flax being away it will save you having to cook. And I won’t take no for an answer. 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