First Christmas

Remember the way you used to feel when you were little? So eager for Santa's visit, sleeplessly counting the minutes till morning, trembling with excitement and anticipation… Will I get what I wished for? Have I been good enough?Josh and George spent half a lifetime apart, so it matters not that they're all grown up now. For this is their first Christmas together, in their new home. They finally have all that they wished for……But perhaps Santa still has a few surprises in store.This Christmas, join Josh and George for a Christmas story full of festive magic and romance.Best read in December, in front of a roaring log fire, by the twinkling light of a Christmas tree.* * * * *First Christmas a novella-length character special. Part of Hiding Behind The Couch series.The story follows chronologically from The Harder They Fall (Season Three) and continues in In The Stars Part I (Season Four). Debbie McGowan is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction that celebrates life, love and relationships in all their diversity. Since the publication in 2004 of her debut novel, Champagne-based on a stage show co-written and co-produced with her husband-she has published many further works-novels, short stories and novellas-including two ongoing series: Hiding Behind The Couch (a literary 'soap opera' centring on the lives of nine long-term friends) and Checking Him Out (LGBTQ romance). Debbie has been a finalist in both the Rainbow Awards and the Bisexual Book Awards, and in 2016, she won the Lambda Literary Award (Lammy) for her novel, When Skies Have Fallen: a British historical romance spanning twenty-three years, from the end of WWII to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Through her independent publishing company, Debbie gives voices to other authors whose work would be deemed unprofitable by mainstream publishing houses. The story of The Circle...Nine friends from high school,Nine friends for life.Hiding Behind The Couch is an ongoing series of stories, written by Debbie McGowan.The series is based in a fictional location in the north-west of England.