Christmas with my Crush
(2026)(A book in the Days of Christmas - Season 3 series)
A Story by Peyton Lawson
He's been my best friend's little brother my whole life. He's also the only man who's ever made me forget my own name.
Willow Carver runs Bearhug Valley Legacy Homes with terrifying efficiency and zero patience for surprises. She does not have time to fall for Luke Koonooka — the boy who used to trail her and his sister around town, now grown into six-foot-something of quiet competence and a smile she's spent twenty years pretending not to notice.
Luke left Bearhug Valley at twenty and never looked back. He built a life in Banff, a career, a wall around the one thing — the one person — he couldn't have. Now he's home for two weeks over the holidays, his flight back already booked, and Willow Carver is standing in his path like she never stopped being the reason he left.
Two weeks. One small town determined to throw them together at every festival, bonfire, and family dinner. And a countdown to a flight neither of them wants him to catch.
Some crushes don't fade with time. They just wait for you to come home.
CHRISTMAS WITH MY CRUSH is a steamy, small-town holiday romance featuring:
Willow Carver runs Bearhug Valley Legacy Homes with terrifying efficiency and zero patience for surprises. She does not have time to fall for Luke Koonooka — the boy who used to trail her and his sister around town, now grown into six-foot-something of quiet competence and a smile she's spent twenty years pretending not to notice.
Luke left Bearhug Valley at twenty and never looked back. He built a life in Banff, a career, a wall around the one thing — the one person — he couldn't have. Now he's home for two weeks over the holidays, his flight back already booked, and Willow Carver is standing in his path like she never stopped being the reason he left.
Two weeks. One small town determined to throw them together at every festival, bonfire, and family dinner. And a countdown to a flight neither of them wants him to catch.
Some crushes don't fade with time. They just wait for you to come home.
CHRISTMAS WITH MY CRUSH is a steamy, small-town holiday romance featuring:
- 🔥 Grumpy meets sunshine
🏔️ Friends-to-lovers, slow-burn tension
🎄 A two-week holiday countdown to forever
💛 A found-family, everybody's-in-everyone's-business small town
🌲 A hero who runs toward what scares him — once he finally decides to
💋 One deliciously earned, open-door happily ever after
Welcome to Bearhug Valley, Alaska — where we ask that you don't hug the bears, and where love finds you exactly when you've stopped looking for it.
Christmas With My Crush is a standalone holiday prequel to the Bearhug Valley Legacy Homes series and can be read on its own.
Genre: Romance