Dear Santa — Dahlia Rose

Dear Santa. Please bring my soldier home to me.

She wrote those words on a piece of paper and tied it on the Christmas tree in the center of small town Paradise, Oklahoma. Their eyes had met across a busy FOB while supply trucks rolled by and humvees were parked for repairs. Not the best situation for a new romance to bloom, but when Specialist First Class Kimberly Albright met the blue green eyes of Staff Sergeant Ace Cameron across the dry desert sand, the attraction was palpable. The longing that bloomed that month of November in Iraq was something they couldn't deny. With each secret kiss or a few hours of desperate passion they knew could cost them their careers, the connection grew to love. Everything about their relationship was secret, and weeks before Christmas Kimberly was sent home. Ace promised he would be on her doorstep on Christmas day, a vow she hoped he would keep. On the forbidden road between desire and passion, will Kimberly's heart be shattered if her Christmas miracle doesn't come through?