title: The Adoration of Addana
author: Royale, G.G.
description: It just doesn't feel like the holiday season with her young boys still evacuated in Houston, but Addana Carmouche will make the best of it as she works to rebuild the home Hurricane Katrina destroyed only a few months earlier. When Sergeant Aleister Colmes sees her on the street one day, he's intrigued by the small, determined woman clearly living by herself in a place little better than a war zone. He takes it upon himself to look after her, and from that, something more develops. Love grows as Christmas approaches and the neighborhood shows signs of a slow, painful rebirth. But will their relationship survive Colmes's retirement? His old farmhouse in Nebraska beckons, but so does the fiery woman who's spirit and heart he's come to adore. Addana will never leave Holy Cross. So Colmes may have to learn to love the neighborhood as much as he does her if they're going to stay together.