{"product_id":"a-year-of-holidays-with-nick-carter-volume-2-paperback","title":"A Year of Holidays with Nick \u0026 Carter: Volume 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank W. Butterfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the second volume of \u003cem\u003eA Year of Holidays with Nick \u0026amp; Carter\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compilation includes ten short stories and novellas all involving Nick Williams and Carter Jones along with their friends and family and centered around specific holidays. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSt. Patrick's Day, 1945\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Williams is in the U.S. Navy and working at a base in New Guinea as a hospital corpsman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, back home, Carter Jones is working as a fireman at Station 3 on Polk Street in San Francisco. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two have yet to meet and are thousands of miles away. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEaster, 1929\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wilson Jones (Louise) of Albany, Georgia, wakes up on yet another Sunday morning to discover her husband didn't come home after carousing down at Louray's by the river. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she doesn't have time to worry. 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