The Christmas Bouquet. Sherryl Woods

      

      When it comes to family and Christmas, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods always looks to the O’Briens for a little holiday magic

      For the very driven medical student Caitlyn Winters, catching the bridal bouquet at a Christmas wedding has set off a chain reaction that she’s sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with family medicine resident Noah McIlroy, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid plans for the future. It doesn’t help that Noah—with a whole lot of help from her O’Brien relatives—is completely on board with the prospect of marriage and happily-ever-after.

      It takes a whole lot of patience, love and family persuasion to help Caitlyn realize that she can still have everything she ever wanted, including a home in her beloved Chesapeake Shores and a man who understands all of her dreams.

      “Love, marriage, family, and forgiveness all play an important part in Woods’s latest richly nourishing, holiday-spiced novel.”

      —Chicago Tribune on A Chesapeake Shores Christmas

       Also by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods

      SWAN POINT*

      THE DEVANEY BROTHERS: DANIEL

      THE DEVANEY BROTHERS: MICHAEL AND PATRICK

      THE DEVANEY BROTHERS: RYAN AND SEAN

      HOME TO SEAVIEW KEY

      SEAVIEW INN

      TWILIGHT

      A SEASIDE CHRISTMAS***

      TEMPTATION

      SEA GLASS ISLAND††

      WIND CHIME POINT††

      SAND CASTLE BAY††

      WHERE AZALEAS BLOOM*

      CATCHING FIREFLIES*

      MIDNIGHT PROMISES*

      THE SUMMER GARDEN***

      AN O’BRIEN FAMILY CHRISTMAS***

      BEACH LANE***

      MOONLIGHT COVE***

      DRIFTWOOD COTTAGE***

      RETURN TO ROSE COTTAGE†

      HOME AT ROSE COTTAGE†

      A CHESAPEAKE SHORES CHRISTMAS***

      HONEYSUCKLE SUMMER*

      SWEET TEA AT SUNRISE*

      HOME IN CAROLINA*

      HARBOR LIGHTS***

      FLOWERS ON MAIN***

      THE INN AT EAGLE POINT***

      WELCOME TO SERENITY*

      MENDING FENCES

      FEELS LIKE FAMILY*

      A SLICE OF HEAVEN*

      STEALING HOME*

      WAKING UP IN CHARLESTON

      FLIRTING WITH DISASTER

      THE BACKUP PLAN

      DESTINY UNLEASHED

      FLAMINGO DINER

      ALONG CAME TROUBLE**

      ASK ANYONE**

      ABOUT THAT MAN**

      ANGEL MINE

      AFTER TEX

      *The Sweet Magnolias

      **Trinity Harbor

      ***Chesapeake Shores

      †The Rose Cottage Sisters

      ††Ocean Breeze

      Look for Sherryl Woods’s next novel

      DOGWOOD HILL

      available soon from Harlequin MIRA

      The Christmas Bouquet

      Sherryl

      Woods

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      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

Booklist

       Title Page

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       Epilogue

       Extract

       Copyright

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      It was all because of that blasted bridal bouquet, Caitlyn Winters thought as she stared in dismay at the positive pregnancy test in her hand. From the moment she’d caught the bouquet at Jenny Collins’s Christmas wedding in New York a little over a year ago, she’d been doomed. That instinctive grab of an object flying straight at her had changed her life.

      Her twin sister, Carrie, who’d all but shoved her aside to try to snatch the bouquet from the air, was going to laugh herself silly at what had transpired since that night. So were the rest of the O’Briens, for that matter. They loved irony.

      Noah McIlroy, the family medicine resident whom she’d met soon after the wedding and with whom she’d been having a serious relationship since last September, tapped on the bathroom door.

      “Caitlyn, are you okay?”

      A hysterical laugh bubbled up, but she fought to contain it. This was no laughing matter. “Fine,” she managed to squeak out just as the door opened. Noah’s gaze shifted from her face to land on the test strip she was holding.