Mistletoe Kisses at Serendipity Springs
(2026)(Book 12 in the Serendipity Springs Sweet Holiday Romance series)
A novel by Ella Score
She invented a boyfriend to survive Christmas with her family. Then she met the perfect man to play the part.
Cara Devon has spent eleven years photographing everyone else’s happiest moments while carefully staying behind the camera herself.
But after one tired comment to her mother turns into a family-wide belief that she’s seeing someone, Cara suddenly has a problem: her grandmother is turning ninety, twenty-six relatives are arriving in Serendipity Springs for Christmas, and every one of them expects to meet the mysterious man in her life.
Enter Zane Brock.
Quiet, capable and newly arrived in town for a historic restoration job, Zane is exactly the kind of man Cara’s family will believe. And he has a reason to agree to her proposal. After a false professional accusation damaged his reputation back home, Zane came to Serendipity Springs hoping for a fresh start somewhere nobody had already decided who he was.
So they make a deal.
A few holiday events. A convincing backstory. Hand-holding in public. Absolutely no confusing what’s real with what isn’t.
Simple.
Until Christmas in Serendipity Springs starts working its magic.
Between tree lightings, family dinners, snowy evenings and a town full of strategically placed mistletoe, pretending to be together begins to feel dangerously natural.
Cara starts to wonder what it might be like to stop watching love through a lens.
And Zane discovers that being truly seen by one person might be worth the risk of being seen by everyone.
But when the past Zane tried to outrun finally catches up with him, their carefully constructed story begins to unravel.
This Christmas, Cara and Zane will have to decide whether the relationship they invented has become the one thing neither of them wants to lose.
Mistletoe Kisses at Serendipity Springs is a clean and wholesome Christmas romance featuring fake dating, a guarded hero, a photographer heroine, small-town charm, mistletoe kisses and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
Cara Devon has spent eleven years photographing everyone else’s happiest moments while carefully staying behind the camera herself.
But after one tired comment to her mother turns into a family-wide belief that she’s seeing someone, Cara suddenly has a problem: her grandmother is turning ninety, twenty-six relatives are arriving in Serendipity Springs for Christmas, and every one of them expects to meet the mysterious man in her life.
Enter Zane Brock.
Quiet, capable and newly arrived in town for a historic restoration job, Zane is exactly the kind of man Cara’s family will believe. And he has a reason to agree to her proposal. After a false professional accusation damaged his reputation back home, Zane came to Serendipity Springs hoping for a fresh start somewhere nobody had already decided who he was.
So they make a deal.
A few holiday events. A convincing backstory. Hand-holding in public. Absolutely no confusing what’s real with what isn’t.
Simple.
Until Christmas in Serendipity Springs starts working its magic.
Between tree lightings, family dinners, snowy evenings and a town full of strategically placed mistletoe, pretending to be together begins to feel dangerously natural.
Cara starts to wonder what it might be like to stop watching love through a lens.
And Zane discovers that being truly seen by one person might be worth the risk of being seen by everyone.
But when the past Zane tried to outrun finally catches up with him, their carefully constructed story begins to unravel.
This Christmas, Cara and Zane will have to decide whether the relationship they invented has become the one thing neither of them wants to lose.
Mistletoe Kisses at Serendipity Springs is a clean and wholesome Christmas romance featuring fake dating, a guarded hero, a photographer heroine, small-town charm, mistletoe kisses and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Romance