Eliana's Christmas Grump
(2026)(The sixth book in the Christmas in Birchdale series)
A Story by Ruby Hill
My grumpy, antisocial neighbor is exactly the kind of man I should stay away from.
Too bad no one told my rescue dog.
Jay Ward moved into the cabin next door two years ago and made it his personal mission to be the most difficult man in Birchdale. He doesn't do people. Doesn't do noise. Definitely doesn't do animals on his property.
So of course, my rescue dog, Sugar, adopted him.
Now I’m finding myself on his doorstep more than I ever intended to, and noticing far too many things about a man I'm supposed to despise. Like the way he laughs when he forgets to be guarded. Or the fact that beneath all that cold indifference, there's someone who's been hurt badly enough to choose a mountain cabin over the rest of the world.
Jay says he's done letting people in.
But he keeps letting Sugar stay. And somehow, little by little, he keeps letting me stay too.
The problem with falling for the man next door? There's no easy way to walk away when things get complicated.
And Jay Ward, it turns out, is a lot harder to hate up close.
Genre: Romance