August 1939. Roger Miller and Jack port O’Brien have already been close since child years. By the time they recognize there’s even more between them than camaraderie, Jack is departing their sleepy Iowa town for college. But they console themselves knowing he’ll be house for Christmas. Right?

It is Xmas before they see one another once again, but that Xmas comes six years and a global war afterwards. Aged, beaten, and shaken by fight, they’re not the boys they were in the past, but their feelings for each additional are more powerful than ever.

Neither know what to state everything they’ve carried since that peacetime summer kiss, though. Even as they stand in the same space, there’s one thousand mls between them.

But probably that’s some range the tiny angel in Roger’s rucksack may cross.

This 24,000 word novella is area of the Christmas Angel series, and can be read being a standalone.