A Free Christmas Short Story! 🎁

Book cover of 'A Curmudgeon's Christmas' by Amanda Geard, featuring a snowy night sky with snowflakes, a lantern, pine branches, red berries, and a Norwegian flag.

When a fierce winter storm strands an Oslo couple and their inquisitive young daughter on his remote Arctic island, reclusive widower Vidar Jacobsen finds his quiet Christmas ruined. Or so he thinks.

As the power fails and the storm closes in, Vidar is forced into unexpected company … and into confronting the life he’s shut out. But the more time he spends with his uninvited neighbours, the more he realises that solitude isn’t the same as peace and that even the coldest winters can thaw.

Set in the vivid, frozen landscape of Amanda Geard’s upcoming novel THE GLASS KEY, this is a heartwarming story about second chances, unlikely connections, and letting people in when it matters most.