Christmas Sunshine and the Mountain Man
(2026)(The second book in the Christmas in Silver Ridge series)
A novel by Celia Skye
LUCY
I was hired to run a front desk. I've decided to run a hostile decorating takeover instead.
Two hours into the job and the parlor's already dripping in garland, gingerbread, and enough fairy lights to guide a small aircraft. The man who owns the place looks like he wants to feed me to the fireplace.
He's also the best-looking thing I've seen since I got off the highway, and I have never once in my life let a scowl stop me from doing exactly what I want.
Fairy lights? Check.
Falling for a man who hasn't said the word Christmas out loud in three years? Wasn't on the list. Doing it anyway.
CONRAD
I run a business, not a feeling. That was the whole plan — until a woman with a stepladder and zero respect for my rules walked into my parlor and put back every single thing I spent three years tearing out.
I should fire her. I can't stop finding reasons to walk past the front desk instead.
She laughs like it costs her nothing. She decorates like she's daring the house to stay sad. And somewhere between the garland war and the burst pipe that puts both of us on our knees in a linen closet, I start wanting things I swore off three Christmases ago.
Problem is, her contract has an end date. Mine doesn't.
-
Christmas Sunshine and the Mountain Man is the second book in Christmas in Silver Ridge, a holiday instalove novella series. Steamy, snowbound, and guaranteed to end hot.
Genre: Romance
I was hired to run a front desk. I've decided to run a hostile decorating takeover instead.
Two hours into the job and the parlor's already dripping in garland, gingerbread, and enough fairy lights to guide a small aircraft. The man who owns the place looks like he wants to feed me to the fireplace.
He's also the best-looking thing I've seen since I got off the highway, and I have never once in my life let a scowl stop me from doing exactly what I want.
Fairy lights? Check.
Falling for a man who hasn't said the word Christmas out loud in three years? Wasn't on the list. Doing it anyway.
CONRAD
I run a business, not a feeling. That was the whole plan — until a woman with a stepladder and zero respect for my rules walked into my parlor and put back every single thing I spent three years tearing out.
I should fire her. I can't stop finding reasons to walk past the front desk instead.
She laughs like it costs her nothing. She decorates like she's daring the house to stay sad. And somewhere between the garland war and the burst pipe that puts both of us on our knees in a linen closet, I start wanting things I swore off three Christmases ago.
Problem is, her contract has an end date. Mine doesn't.
-
Christmas Sunshine and the Mountain Man is the second book in Christmas in Silver Ridge, a holiday instalove novella series. Steamy, snowbound, and guaranteed to end hot.
Genre: Romance