Happy Holigays

You know the tired old tale—leave the big city to returnto that sleepy hometown for the holidays, discover who you truly are, and findlove where you least expected. But that’s the last thing Mitch wants to do withhis time off.

Living in Hell’s Kitchen he’s happy with his life—greatjob, nice apartment, great friends. When his boss surprises the company with afull week’s vacation for the holidays, Mitch does the opposite of the hackneyedromcom fantasy. He doesn’t want to go back to Scranton and spend the holidayswith his family.

He wants to relax, stay home, go out, hook up, and havefun. He wants the gay staycation of his dreams, and he’s determined to keep itthat way no matter how much his mom makes him feel bad.

His best friend David isn’t buying it. There’s got to bemore to life than going out, drinking, and hooking up. As David puts it, "Insteadof going home for the holidays, you want to be a homo for the holidays?” Andthat’s exactly what Mitch intends to do.

But sometimes that love you didn’t see is hiding in plainsight, and sometimes it’s not in the tiny, small town you already escaped once.

Even without the small town and the family drama, willMitch find the unexpected holiday romance he didn’t even know he wanted in HAPPYHOLIGAYS, Matthew Cooper’s non-Hallmark-Holiday novella?