Firstly, I want to acknowledge and thank my amazing husband and leading man, Tim. Thank you for everything you do to help me write. You are a star and I don’t want to do life without you.
To our kids, Jeremy, Chloe, Zach and Toby, thank you for your support and encouragement and for your input into character descriptions and story lines. Thank you for reading my books, telling your friends and teachers to buy them, and for always cheering me on loudly from the sidelines.
Once again I want to thank the incredible team at Momentum who jumped at the idea of this Christmas novella when I randomly pitched the idea to them. Huge thanks to Joel, Haylee, Ashley, Patrick, Julia and the others on the team who dropped everything and pulled together to make this novella sparkle. Special thanks to the cover designer because you have to admit, the cover is divine!
Finally, special thanks to my author friends for critiquing this novella at such short notice. Alissa Callen, Alli Sinclair, Andrea Grigg and Justine Lewis, your input, friendship and encouragement is always so appreciated.
About Nicki Edwards
Nicki Edwards is a city girl with a country heart. Growing up on a small family acreage, she spent her formative years riding horses and pretending the neighbor’s farm was her own. After spending three years in a regional city in New South Wales, her love of small country towns was further developed. One day she plans to escape to the country with her husband Tim and live on land surrounded by horses, dogs, cows and sheep. Until then she lives vicariously through the lives of the characters in the rural romance novels she loves to read.
In 2006, when Nicki’s youngest child started school, she returned to university, juggling full time study, part time work and raising four small children, to achieve her dream of becoming a nurse. Always a voracious reader, Nicki’s other dream was to be an author.
Nicki writes medical rural romance for Momentum and when she isn’t reading, writing or dreaming about rural life and medical emergencies, she can be found working as a Critical Care Nurse in a busy Intensive Care Unit, where many of her stories and characters are imagined.
Nicki and Tim reside in Geelong, Victoria with their four teenage/young adult children. Life is busy, fun and at times exhausting, but Nicki wouldn’t change it for anything. Visit her at www.nickiedwards.com.au.
Also by Nicki Edwards
Intensive Care: Escape to the Country
Emergency Response: Escape to the Country
First published by Momentum in 2015
This edition published in 2015 by Momentum
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Operation White Christmas: An Escape to the Country Novella
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