Blue Ridge Christmas

A widow they call Miss Christmas. An executive who hates the holidays. One small mountain town caught between them.

Holly Helm was born on Christmas Eve, and she's spent every year since making sure nobody in Orchard Falls ever forgets the magic of the season. She runs the Hickory House Inn. She manages the Blue Ridge Toy Factory. She organizes the holiday bazaar and the tree lighting and raises her eight-year-old daughter Gracie with all the quiet love her late husband would have wanted. Her town is small, her bookings are light, and her life is exactly what she needs it to be. Or it would be, if the charming guest in the disco-Christmas-themed room were who he claimed to be.

Greg Ward doesn't do Christmas. Not since he was a boy watching his parents tear his childhood apart between custody lawyers and court dates. Now he's thirty, ambitious, and one promotion away from everything he's ever worked for — if he can quietly scout a little mountain town for his company's next massive resort. Seven days in Orchard Falls. A cover story he doesn't plan to break. A widow with blue eyes and a daughter who adopts him on sight. This was supposed to be simple.

Then the blizzard hits. The roads close. The inn's lights glow through the storm, and for seven days Greg is snowed in with the woman whose world he's been sent to dismantle. A dance by the fire. A kiss that shouldn't have happened. A laptop screen open to an email that's about to change everything.

A cozy holiday romance about snow-dusted porches, small-town magic, and the kind of love that can thaw even the coldest heart.

Pour the cocoa, light the tree, and settle in.