When your worst enemy becomes your fake boyfriend at Christmas, the heat might melt more than just the snow.
For Ivy Jones, Smoldering Pines was supposed to be her writer's sanctuary—a place to finally break through the creative block that's been suffocating her ever since her ex-boyfriend publicly destroyed her career and her ex-best friend destroyed her heart. Armed with her laptop and a looming deadline, she's ready to hide away in the Sugar Pine Lodge and write the comeback novel that will save her career. What she doesn't expect is Nick Ryder, the brooding carpenter whose cold indifference during their shared past still stings, hammering away at more than just the lodge’s bookshelves.
Nick's spent the last year rebuilding his life one custom cabinet at a time, starting fresh after losing everything—his job, his apartment, and his cheating girlfriend. The Sugar Pine Lodge renovation was supposed to be a chance to launch his new business, far from the wreckage of his past. But when Ivy storms into the library, all fire and frustration, he's face-to-face with the one woman who drives him crazier than an elf on Christmas Eve. She still hates him for the cruel words he said the night their worlds imploded—and he can't blame her.
When their cheating exes show up in town, Ivy and Nick hatch a plan straight out of her romance novels: pretend to be madly in love. But staged kisses turn real, soft touches become desperate, and soon they're generating more heat than the lodge's roaring fireplaces. As walls come down and secrets surface, they'll have to decide if this is just another plot twist or the love story they were always meant to write.
A Very Merry Meet-Cute is a scorching enemies-to-lovers Christmas novella about second chances, secret pining, and discovering that sometimes the person who breaks you is the only one who can put you back together. Part of the Christmas Quickies series—spicy stand-alone novellas perfect for devouring by the fire.
Contains deliciously explicit content, steamy confessions, and the kind of chemistry that makes you believe in Christmas magic.
Genre: Romance
For Ivy Jones, Smoldering Pines was supposed to be her writer's sanctuary—a place to finally break through the creative block that's been suffocating her ever since her ex-boyfriend publicly destroyed her career and her ex-best friend destroyed her heart. Armed with her laptop and a looming deadline, she's ready to hide away in the Sugar Pine Lodge and write the comeback novel that will save her career. What she doesn't expect is Nick Ryder, the brooding carpenter whose cold indifference during their shared past still stings, hammering away at more than just the lodge’s bookshelves.
Nick's spent the last year rebuilding his life one custom cabinet at a time, starting fresh after losing everything—his job, his apartment, and his cheating girlfriend. The Sugar Pine Lodge renovation was supposed to be a chance to launch his new business, far from the wreckage of his past. But when Ivy storms into the library, all fire and frustration, he's face-to-face with the one woman who drives him crazier than an elf on Christmas Eve. She still hates him for the cruel words he said the night their worlds imploded—and he can't blame her.
When their cheating exes show up in town, Ivy and Nick hatch a plan straight out of her romance novels: pretend to be madly in love. But staged kisses turn real, soft touches become desperate, and soon they're generating more heat than the lodge's roaring fireplaces. As walls come down and secrets surface, they'll have to decide if this is just another plot twist or the love story they were always meant to write.
A Very Merry Meet-Cute is a scorching enemies-to-lovers Christmas novella about second chances, secret pining, and discovering that sometimes the person who breaks you is the only one who can put you back together. Part of the Christmas Quickies series—spicy stand-alone novellas perfect for devouring by the fire.
Contains deliciously explicit content, steamy confessions, and the kind of chemistry that makes you believe in Christmas magic.
Genre: Romance
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