About the Book:

It's a cold, desperate December when a young girl flees home, in search of food, shelter and the real Santa Claus. Stranded in George and Josh's hometown, she discovers that the spirit of Christmas can be found in the most unexpected of places. Includes the story of The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen.

Suitable for younger readers and adults, aged 12+.

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A Midnight Clear is a stand-alone, novella-length character special. Part of Hiding Behind The Couch series.

This story follows chronologically from In The Stars Part II (Season Five) and runs parallel to Red Hot Christmas (Novella). The story continues in Two By Two (Season Six).

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A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology

ABOUT BOUGHS OF EVERGREEN

Boughs of Evergreen is a two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different walks of life.

Themes of family, friendship and romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Eid, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness.

Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.

About the Author:

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 around fifty further works. She is the author of 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)... Read More

Other Publications by Debbie McGowan:

• Meredith's Dagger
• Play On...
• The Great Pretendo
• Seasons of Love
• The Great Village Bun Fight
• Never Too Late
• So Long, Little Black Diamonds
• Of The Bauble
• Take A Chance Anthology: A Collection of Gay Romance for New Adults
• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
• Love Unlocked
• Cherry Pop Valentine
• Coming Up
• Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
• Sugar and Sawdust
• Champagne
• Double Six
• No Dice
• Time to Go (in Story Salon Big Book of Stories)

Checking Him Out (Series)

• Checking Him Out (Checking Him Out #1)
• Checking Him Out For The Holidays (Checking Him Out Novella)
• Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
• Taking Him On (Checking Him Out #2)
• Checking In (Checking Him Out #3)
• Checking Him Out Box Set One
• The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4)

Gray Fisher (Series)

• The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)

Hiding Behind The Couch (Series)

• Beginnings (HBTC Novella)
• Ruminations (HBTC Novel)
• Class-A (HBTC Short Story)
• Hiding Behind The Couch (HBTC #1)
• No Time Like The Present (HBTC #2)
• The Harder They Fall (HBTC #3)
• Crying in the Rain (HBTC Novel)
• First Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• In The Stars Part I: Capricorn-Gemini (HBTC #4)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set One (HBTC Box Set)
• Breaking Waves (HBTC Novella)
• In The Stars Part II: Cancer-Sagittarius (HBTC #5)
• Chain of Secrets (HBTC Novella)
• A Midnight Clear (HBTC Novella)
• Red Hot Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• Two By Two (HBTC #6)
• Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
• Those Jeffries Boys (HBTC Novel)
• The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Reunions (HBTC #7)
• Breakfast at Cordelia's Aquarium (HBTC Short Story)
• To Be Sure (HBTC Novella)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Novellas & Short Stories (HBTC Box Set)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set Two (HBTC Box Set)
• What A Scorcher! (HBTC Flash Fiction)
• Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Goth of Christmas Past (HBTC Novel)
• The Lost Mitten
• The Advent of Reason (HBTC Novella)
• Not My Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)
• Perfect Tenor (HBTC Novella)
• Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
• Alumni: Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
• Alumni: Resolutions (HBTC Novel)

Seeds of Tyrone (Series)

• Leaving Flowers (Seeds of Tyrone #1)
• Where the Grass is Greener (Seeds of Tyrone #2)
• Christmas Craic and Mistletoe (Seeds of Tyrone #3)
• Seeds of Tyrone Box Set

When Skies Have Fallen (Series)

• When Skies Have Fallen
• A Snowy Ball (When Skies Have Fallen #1.5)