EVA
My holiday plan was simple. Land the promotion I'd been working toward, survive 72 hours at my parents’ Christmas cabin and avoid committing a felony when my brother's best friend inevitably subjected me to his aggressive holiday cheer.
Instead, my boss handed my promotion to a less qualified man and I quit on the spot.
And since unemployment wasn't enough of a gift for one week, now I'm snowed in with the man who's called me Twinkle Toes since I was a kid, and who I've spent a decade convincing myself I hate.
Mostly because admitting the truth would be so, so much worse.
EVERETT
Eva Finch is off limits. Nevertheless she’s been at the top of my Christmas list the last ten years.
The Finches gave me everything I'd never had. A home, a family, and a brother in Mason. Then I made the mistake of falling in love with his little sister.
Mason has only ever asked me for one thing. ‘She’s my sister, Everett. Don’t.’
So every Christmas I show up to the cabin, call her a nickname she hates, and pretend I don’t feel anything because annoying her makes the wanting bearable. Then January comes and we go our separate ways.
It's worked for years. But this Christmas it’s just Eva and me in a cozy cabin on Evergreen Lake. And after a decade of being good, I'm starting to think I've earned one very bad Christmas.
Genre: Romance
My holiday plan was simple. Land the promotion I'd been working toward, survive 72 hours at my parents’ Christmas cabin and avoid committing a felony when my brother's best friend inevitably subjected me to his aggressive holiday cheer.
Instead, my boss handed my promotion to a less qualified man and I quit on the spot.
And since unemployment wasn't enough of a gift for one week, now I'm snowed in with the man who's called me Twinkle Toes since I was a kid, and who I've spent a decade convincing myself I hate.
Mostly because admitting the truth would be so, so much worse.
EVERETT
Eva Finch is off limits. Nevertheless she’s been at the top of my Christmas list the last ten years.
The Finches gave me everything I'd never had. A home, a family, and a brother in Mason. Then I made the mistake of falling in love with his little sister.
Mason has only ever asked me for one thing. ‘She’s my sister, Everett. Don’t.’
So every Christmas I show up to the cabin, call her a nickname she hates, and pretend I don’t feel anything because annoying her makes the wanting bearable. Then January comes and we go our separate ways.
It's worked for years. But this Christmas it’s just Eva and me in a cozy cabin on Evergreen Lake. And after a decade of being good, I'm starting to think I've earned one very bad Christmas.
Genre: Romance