Cirrus@Austlit

'Abby adds two empty chair to the table for Christmas, though her heart is still full of conflict and love.

'Eight months pregnant, Abby finds herself a single mother to be, and an anomaly in the Z Unit household. While everyone else slows for Christmas in the wake of the unit’s catastrophic joint mission, Abby finds herself out of place…until a knock on the door to Fairview House revives a face from the past, one she never really said goodbye to at all.

'Ruski Boryenka recieves orders on Christmas Eve to report to a unit he’d never heard of that doesn’t exist. The last person he expects to open the door on Christmas morning is his ex fiance Abby Zhou, pregnant…and grieving. When the unit doesn’t accept his untimely arrival, Abby and Ruski team up once more for a media campaign to remind the unit that while Christmas comes once a year, memories remain forever.' (Publication summary)