title: Christmas In Hawthorn Bay
author: O'Brien, Kathleen
description: Fear, envy, rumors of buried treasure  --  Hawthorn Bay is braced for the return of Jack Killian...
  
  Mayor Nora Carson knows that council's plan to bulldoze the Killian family's mansion won't just stir up bad blood--it will attract the last person on earth she wants to see: Jack Killian. Run out of town when they were high school sweethearts, the big city lawyer is back to protect his turf--but what he'll find is Nora's eleven-year-old secret.
  
  Her worst nightmare is that he'll put two and two together and start asking questions. But there's no way she can tell him how she came to be a single mother. Or why her son has the Killians' blue eyes and curly black hair...
  
  Hero: Jack Killian
  Heroine: Mayor Nora Carson