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The Christmas We Didn't Die: A Second Chance Marriage in Crisis Cheating Grovel Christmas Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 24 2025
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I found the hotel receipt on December 15th. My husband's jacket. Suite 1407. The night he said he was in Milwaukee.
I went to catch him cheating. Instead, I walked into a murder.
The man with ice-blue eyes and a gun looked at me and said, Who are you? I ran. He chased. And my entire life exploded in the span of one night-because the husband I thought was having an affair was actually working with the FBI. The lies I uncovered weren't about another woman. They were about weapons trafficking, money laundering, and a Russian arms dealer who doesn't leave witnesses alive.
Now we're in witness protection. Playing married in a Montana town where everyone knows everyone. Except the friendly neighbor helping us run our Christmas tree farm? He's the killer's nephew. And he's been watching us all along.
We survived the worst, my husband tells me as bullets shatter our windows. We'll survive whatever comes.
But surviving means more than staying alive. It means deciding if a marriage built on lies can be rebuilt on truth. It means fighting an enemy who'll never stop hunting us. It means learning that sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't the man with the gun-it's the secrets between two people who forgot how to trust each other.
They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
This Christmas almost killed us.
The question is: will we be stronger together, or will the truth destroy what the bullets couldn't?
A heart-stopping romantic suspense where witness protection becomes a second chance at love-if they survive long enough to take it.
For fans of dark romance, forced proximity, and Christmas stories that trade sugar cookies for survival.
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