I make whiskey for a living. Good whiskey. The kind you drink alone by a fire while absolutely no one talks to you. That's the life I built after my divorce, and it suits me fine.
Then my sister signs me up for a mail-order bride matchmaking program as what she dubbed a ‘good’ Christmas present. She described me in my profile as "an emotionally complex man with a great beard who just needs the right woman to unlock his potential."
I would have gone with "thirty-nine-year-old hermit who peaked at tolerating people."
I plan to shut the whole thing down. Then Willa Archer's photo lands in my inbox, and she's smiling like sunshine hasn't gotten the memo about December.
She picked me. Out of every man in the catalog, this gorgeous, curvy, completely unhinged woman chose the grumpy distiller who listed his hobbies as "bourbon, silence, and avoiding eye contact."
Now she's here for the two-week trial. In my cabin. With a red suitcase, three jars of homemade jam, and enough holiday spirit to get her arrested in most states.
She strings lights on my porch without asking. Hums carols while she makes breakfast in my kitchen like she's lived here forever. Calls my bulldog "baby boy" in a voice that makes my chest do something I'm going to keep calling heartburn.
I don't do Christmas. Haven't in five years.
But watching her frost cookies in my kitchen wearing my flannel and nothing else? Finding her asleep on my couch with Humbug on her lap and flour in her hair? Tasting the bourbon caramel sauce she made with my best barrel proof and losing every rational thought I've ever had?
Two weeks. I told myself I could survive two weeks.
I didn't survive two days.
She came here looking for a husband by Christmas. She's getting a grumpy mountain man who's already cleared a shelf for her jam and has a ring in his sock drawer he bought on day four.
Unwrap Me: Grump is a steamy mail-order-bride Christmas novella featuring a grumpy bourbon distiller who hates the holidays, the curvy sunshine baker who picked him out of a catalog and invaded his quiet life, and a two-week trial that proves some men just need the right woman to unwrap them. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
Then my sister signs me up for a mail-order bride matchmaking program as what she dubbed a ‘good’ Christmas present. She described me in my profile as "an emotionally complex man with a great beard who just needs the right woman to unlock his potential."
I would have gone with "thirty-nine-year-old hermit who peaked at tolerating people."
I plan to shut the whole thing down. Then Willa Archer's photo lands in my inbox, and she's smiling like sunshine hasn't gotten the memo about December.
She picked me. Out of every man in the catalog, this gorgeous, curvy, completely unhinged woman chose the grumpy distiller who listed his hobbies as "bourbon, silence, and avoiding eye contact."
Now she's here for the two-week trial. In my cabin. With a red suitcase, three jars of homemade jam, and enough holiday spirit to get her arrested in most states.
She strings lights on my porch without asking. Hums carols while she makes breakfast in my kitchen like she's lived here forever. Calls my bulldog "baby boy" in a voice that makes my chest do something I'm going to keep calling heartburn.
I don't do Christmas. Haven't in five years.
But watching her frost cookies in my kitchen wearing my flannel and nothing else? Finding her asleep on my couch with Humbug on her lap and flour in her hair? Tasting the bourbon caramel sauce she made with my best barrel proof and losing every rational thought I've ever had?
Two weeks. I told myself I could survive two weeks.
I didn't survive two days.
She came here looking for a husband by Christmas. She's getting a grumpy mountain man who's already cleared a shelf for her jam and has a ring in his sock drawer he bought on day four.
Unwrap Me: Grump is a steamy mail-order-bride Christmas novella featuring a grumpy bourbon distiller who hates the holidays, the curvy sunshine baker who picked him out of a catalog and invaded his quiet life, and a two-week trial that proves some men just need the right woman to unwrap them. Guaranteed HEA with no cheating.
Genre: Romance
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