I'll Be Home for Christmas

Tinnean

Feb 2026 · JMS Books LLC

Ebook

180

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

It's the year 2098, and Terra, slightly different from Earth, has become a united planet. Air Force Lieutenant Tinker "Andy" Anderson has been recruited to the Space Force. He'll be one of an elite crew heading to Venus to rescue a previous disastrous exploration mission headed by Colonel Edward Pettigrew. The government wants Pettigrew, the sole survivor, brought back to Terra and court martialed.

The mission is harrowing, but it's successfully completed, with Andy and Pettigrew developing feelings for each other on the hazardous return journey. However, while there's more to deal with back on Terra, Andy is told the court martial has been postponed and is given leave. What no one realizes is Andy has a second sense, and when it starts alerting him something is seriously wrong, he returns to Base. Sure enough, Pettigrew's court martial has never been delayed and is scheduled to begin the next day. Andy has some cards up his sleeve, though, and the phantom agency behind the entire disaster is foiled.

Andy and the man he calls Best continue their military careers, but with the holidays fast approaching, will the one thing Andy wants most -- to be home for Christmas with his family and the man he loves -- be what he gets?

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About the author

Tinnean has been writing since the third grade, where she was inspired to try her hand at epic poetry. Fortunately, that epic poem didn't survive the passage of time; however, her love of writing not only survived but thrived, and in high school she became a member of the magazine staff, where she contributed a number of stories. Starting a family resulted in writing being set aside, although throughout those years Tinnean did continue to keep a journal. Once the kids were old enough to do their own thing, she was able to dabble in writing again. It was with the advent of the family's second computer -- the first intimidated everyone -- that her writing took off, enhanced in part by fan fiction, but mostly by the wonder that is copy and paste. While involved in fandom, she was nominated for both Rerun and Light My Fire Awards. Now she concentrates on her original characters and has been published by Nazca Plains, Dreamspinner, and JMS Books. Tinnean is what you might call a hopeful romantic, and if you see her name on a story, it will have a happy ending. Her signature line, a quote by Ernest Hemingway, says it all: "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it." A New Yorker at heart, she resides in SW Florida with her husband and two computers.

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