Holidays

She's planning the perfect festival. He's falling apart trying to keep his distance.

Megan Clarke has one shot to save her struggling event planning business: make Heart Springs' Axe-Mas Festival better than anything her former partner's company ever produced. No pressure—just her entire career riding on outshining five years of magazine-worthy perfection.

Enter Brody: ex-military security specialist, professional grump, and the man assigned to shadow her every move. He grunts at her ideas, glowers at her scaffolding plans, and keeps citing "safety violations" like he's trying to sabotage her festival. Clearly, he wants her to fail.

Except he doesn't.

Brody took one look at the sunshine-in-human-form woman who showed up at his door with cookies and a smile that could melt the Grinch's heart, and fell catastrophically hard. Now he's volunteering for every shift that puts him near her, fixing problems before she notices them, and teaching her to throw axes just to have an excuse to stand close.

His buddies Knox and Hayes are absolutely merciless about it. The town's starting to notice. And Megan? She still thinks he hates her.

When a massive snowstorm traps them together and the truth finally comes out, Megan has to decide: take the career-saving contract offer waiting for her in the city, or stay in Heart Springs with the grumpy mountain man who's been all in since day one.

He's spent weeks pretending to be professional. She's spent weeks trying to prove herself. The only thing more dangerous than her festival plans? The way he looks at her when he thinks she's not watching.

A spicy small-town holiday rom-com featuring a grumpy ex-military hero who falls first and falls hard, a sunshine heroine determined to succeed, meddling best friends, one chaotic dog, and an Axe-Mas Festival worth fighting for. 

Faking romance was easy… until it stopped feeling fake.

Harper Venn is determined to save her small-town bookstore and the historic Main Street of Hollow Creek, from a developer with bulldozer dreams. Her best shot? Pulling off the Pumpkin Festival of the century.

The problem? She must plan it with Dexter Rowen. Her former best friend. Her almost-something. Now he’s back in town, looking infuriatingly good in flannel and very willing to challenge her carefully guarded heart.

When the town mistakes their bickering partnership for romance, Harper and Dex agree to fake date, just until the festival is over. But with cider-fueled nights, meddling neighbors, and a tuxedo cat who clearly has opinions, their pact starts to feel a lot less fake.
Saving the bookstore might take spreadsheets, string lights, and a little bit of small-town magic. Saving her heart? That’s going to take a lot more.

The Pumpkin Pact is a small-town fake dating romance full of autumn charm, second chances, and a grumpy hero who can’t resist his sunshine bookshop girl.

When a fake boyfriend plan meets one very real Christmas crush... sparks fly under the mistletoe.

My grandmother’s vintage toy shop is three weeks from foreclosure, and the town gossips of Snowfall Creek have already declared my single status the final nail in the coffin. What I need is a Christmas miracle.

What I get is Holden Clark, brooding, quiet, infuriatingly handsome, and very much not from around here. He appreciates vintage music boxes, fixes things that aren’t his problem, and somehow makes my little shop feel alive again.

When I offer him the spare room above The Jolly Trunk in exchange for handyman help, it seems like the perfect solution. Then inspiration, or maybe desperation, strikes: a fake relationship. He gets to blend in with the locals. I get a respectable “boyfriend” who might just convince the bank I’ve got stability.

It’s supposed to be business. Temporary. Harmless.

Until his touch isn’t.
Until every look feels like a promise.
Until I realize nothing about Holden Clark, or this Christmas, is fake.

A steamy small-town holiday romance where fake dating meets real feelings, and a grumpy stranger discovers that some things can't be faked.