About the Book:

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.

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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).

[Link to suggested reading order]

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)