num_pages: 201
description:  Before Ethan returns to DC Before he becomes Jacks first gentleman Jack and Ethan share their first Christmas together. Step back to Jack and Ethans first Christmas season and the tentative early months of their relationship under the worlds spotlight. Three months into Ethans transfer-in-exile in Des Moines Iowa the pressures of dating Jack the president of the United States start to wear Ethan down. His weeks are measured by the days he works in Iowa chasing counterfeiters and financial crimes and the weekends he manages to steal with Jack back in DC. The media stalks his every move hes isolated by his coworkers and loneliness hammers at his heart. In DC Jack tries to piece together a global alliance to take down the Caliphate while the world seems focused on tearing apart his personal life. Hostility surrounds him from all corners of the globe but a surprise offer from President Sergey Puchkov may pave the way for a tentative allianceand perhaps the beginning of a friendship. As Ethan finds himself in the middle of an investigation that rubs too deeply against his soul and Jack tries to balance leading the free world and keeping his and Ethans relationship going the two men must face what their love has becomeand where they are heading together.
language: None
title: Interlude: First Noel
publisher: Tal Bauer