The deal was simple: survive twelve holiday blind dates, and earn a permanent ticket out of town.Global corporate fixer Charlie Hale has a one-way ticket to Singapore stamped January 2nd. She has never met a city she couldn't pack up and leave behind—which makes surviving December in her aggressively festive hometown a true test of endurance. To get her matchmaking sister off her back for good, Charlie agrees to a holiday nightmare: twelve dates with twelve local bachelors before Christmas morning.
Every date is a spectacular disaster. And every disaster lands her right back at the corner table of the cozy local coffee shop, debriefing with Jack.
Jack is patient, grounded, and busy raising his spitfire daughter. When Charlie starts dispensing unsolicited, high-powered business advice on how he can expand his sleepy little cafe, he takes her critique with a quiet grin. He conveniently leaves out the part where he built the multi-million-dollar empire she's trying to teach him about.
Between gingerbread house chaos and snowy porch confessions, Charlie starts dreading the tick of the clock. Jack has built the kind of rooted, lasting life she's spent forty years running from—and falling for him might be the first time she doesn't want to pack her bags.
A witty, sweet Christmas romance packed with laugh-out-loud dates, a delightfully deceptive single dad, and two grown-ups who know better falling hard anyway.
Tropes & themes: opposites attract · small-town Christmas · single dad · meddling-family matchmaking · hidden-mogul · mature (40s) leads · clean & closed-door
Genre: Romance
Every date is a spectacular disaster. And every disaster lands her right back at the corner table of the cozy local coffee shop, debriefing with Jack.
Jack is patient, grounded, and busy raising his spitfire daughter. When Charlie starts dispensing unsolicited, high-powered business advice on how he can expand his sleepy little cafe, he takes her critique with a quiet grin. He conveniently leaves out the part where he built the multi-million-dollar empire she's trying to teach him about.
Between gingerbread house chaos and snowy porch confessions, Charlie starts dreading the tick of the clock. Jack has built the kind of rooted, lasting life she's spent forty years running from—and falling for him might be the first time she doesn't want to pack her bags.
A witty, sweet Christmas romance packed with laugh-out-loud dates, a delightfully deceptive single dad, and two grown-ups who know better falling hard anyway.
Tropes & themes: opposites attract · small-town Christmas · single dad · meddling-family matchmaking · hidden-mogul · mature (40s) leads · clean & closed-door
Genre: Romance