Unwrapped

Actor Davis Hart's career is in a death spiral after her drunken sleep-and-tell outs the star of their hit television show. Hoping time and distance will offer a new start, Davis returns to her small hometown where it's Christmas year-round and the community theater where she honed her acting skills draws thousands of tourists every year. Only everything has changed. The theater is struggling to stay open, and its last hope is a mesmerizing hazel-eyed woman with a grant to produce an original holiday play. Playwright and director Asia du Muir is serious and very focused on her career. She's finished her education at Columbia University and hopes a fellowship grant to write and produce a play at a community theater will launch her career. She's not going to let some party girl actress ruin her best chance to get noticed by a Broadway critic. Neither of them expects the feelings they can't deny, but everyone knows personal and professional relationships shouldn't be mixed. Is their love destined to wait in the wings?

D. Jackson Leigh grew up barefoot and happy, swimming in farm ponds and riding rude ponies in rural south Georgia. Her passion for writing led her to a career in journalism and North Carolina where she lives with The Terrors, her three mostly terrier mutts. She edits news at night and spends her days writing lesbian romance stories laced with her trademark Southern humor and affection for horses.

Jackson has won three Golden Crown Literary Society awards for her novels and was a finalist in the romance category of the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards.