book cover of Mistletoe Stand In
 

Mistletoe Stand In

(2026)
(The third book in the Mistletoe Meadows series)
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What do you do when the grumpy guy from your favorite coffee shop needs a fake girlfriend for Christmas? Pack your bags, of course!

Ember Sullivan has spent more Christmases alone than she cares to count, and she isn’t exactly looking forward to adding another one to the list. So when the grumpy man she’s spent months trading coffee shop banter with makes a completely unreasonable request—come home with him for Christmas and pretend to be his girlfriend—Ember decides a week in a charming Christmas town sounds a whole lot better than celebrating by herself.

Cole Dawson hasn’t spent Christmas week in Mistletoe Meadows in years. Not since his parents’ divorce turned his favorite holiday into one he’d rather avoid. But with his matchmaking grandmother determined to find him the perfect woman, Cole decides the best way to survive the holidays is to arrive with a girlfriend of his own. And the peppermint-mocha-loving woman he’s spent months arguing with over coffee seems like the perfect person for the job.

Their plan should be simple: convince Cole’s family they’re happily dating, survive a week of Christmas festivities, and go back to their normal lives when it’s over. But between cookie-baking contests, sleigh rides, matching ugly sweaters, and an entire town determined to catch them beneath the mistletoe, pretending starts to feel dangerously close to the real thing.

As Ember finds the Christmas—and family—she’s always dreamed of, Cole begins rediscovering the holiday magic he thought he’d lost for good. But with December twenty-sixth drawing closer, they’ll have to decide if what they found in Mistletoe Meadows was only part of the act...or something worth taking home with them.

What happens when a fake Christmas romance starts to feel a little too much like coming home?


Genre: Romance



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