The Ex-Mas Holidays

When Maya Bashir loses her job and breaks up with her long-term boyfriend moving back home is her only option. She doesn’t mind moving back to Glenavie, Scotland, but she dreads living under the same roof as her father. Dr. Bashir wanted his daughters to achieve success in stable (boring) careers. He pushed Maya into a job she hates, and she’s too afraid of conflict to tell him how she feels. When a former boss asks her to sub in at a ski resort to teach children’s ski classes, she leaps at the chance to be back on the slopes. But being there means working alongside her first crush, Sam Holland. Sam never expected to see Maya again. She was his first love, and it took him years to get over her. Both protagonists are written with sympathy and understanding, their obstacles lending the novel realism and emotional depth. The potentially heavy content is balanced with laugh-out-loud humor and outrageously funny scenarios.