cover image Maybe This Christmas

Maybe This Christmas

Jennifer Snow. Forever, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9492-4

In Snow’s latest Colorado Ice novel (after Maybe This Summer), a professional hockey player must come to terms with what is most important in life. Asher Westmore is nearing a career goal of playing 1,000 games, if only he can skate through the pain of a debilitating knee injury. When he visits home in Glenwood Falls, Colo., he enjoys celebrating Christmas with family and friends and reuniting with his best friend and lover, physical therapist Emma Callaway. Then his knee injury sidelines him and he turns to Emma for help, and Asher is forced to ask whether hockey matters more than pursuing romance with her. The attraction between Asher and Emma is always sensuous and intense, but Emma realizes that she wants romance as well as sex and also contemplates starting a graduate-level PT program in Florida. The romance of the Christmas holiday season is enhanced by the backdrop of small-town Colorado. The sweet, touching emotions will resonate with readers. Agent: Stephany Evans, Ayesha Pande Literary. (Oct.)