About This Book
Against the backdrop of a worldwide pandemic, a disgraced father hopes to reunite his broken family for one more Christmas...--Martin Wilkes, facing legal problems and medical troubles, tricks his six grown children, their families, and his ex-wife into coming to the family lakefront home for Christmas. During a worldwide pandemic, when traveling and gathering for holidays is being discouraged.--Pamela, Marty's oldest daughter, arrives to take charge. Expecting to be alone with her father, she is unhappy as her siblings and their families arrive during a pandemic. The arrival of their mother nearly pushes Pamela over the edge... --Gus, Marty's oldest son, has a short fuse. Cajoled by his wife, Carla Jo, telling him there are things he needs to overlook, August Wilkes reluctantly returns to the family lakefront home...--Valerie and her husband, a television host and former soap opera actor, arrive with their two teenage children. They have invited a long lost cousin to join them...--Savana and her husband, Carl, have been having children since they were both teenagers in high school. Expecting her seventh child, her husband out of work because of the pandemic, Savana is about to face an issue in her family she just might not be able to ever accept...--Melisa and her husband, Freddy, do not believe the pandemic is real. Convinced that it is Fake News designed to steal the election from the current president, they arrive having broken Marty's elderly mother out of the assisted living center where she resides...--Summoned from California, where he bartends and hooks up with one woman after another, without even knowing their names, Marty's youngest son, Hudson, is about to have his entire world turned upsidedown...--Celine, Marty's ex-wife, left her husband and family in the middle of his scandal. Married to a new husband, Celine has returned to the grown children, grandchildren, and husband she abandoned for one reason. She has to get her hands on a recording proving she not only knew about Marty's crimes, but she also encouraged him to continue to commit them. Celine will do anything she needs to in order to protect her secret...--Cousin Sabrina, invited by Valerie and her husband, arrives in the middle of an argument, stumbling upon secrets that will turn against her. Harboring her own crush on Valerie's husband, Clinton, from afar years earlier, before she met them, Sabrina finds herself in a dangerous game of life and death...As Christmas approaches, this group will either turn on one another or somehow learn to love one another again--at least for One More Christmas...
