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Home for Axe-Mas

(2026)
(A book in the Merry Axe-Mas series)
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She's planning the perfect festival. He's falling apart trying to keep his distance.

Megan Clarke has one shot to save her struggling event planning business: make Heart Springs' Axe-Mas Festival better than anything her former partner's company ever produced. No pressure''just her entire career riding on outshining five years of magazine-worthy perfection.

Enter Brody: ex-military security specialist, professional grump, and the man assigned to shadow her every move. He grunts at her ideas, glowers at her scaffolding plans, and keeps citing "safety violations" like he's trying to sabotage her festival. Clearly, he wants her to fail.

Except he doesn't.

Brody took one look at the sunshine-in-human-form woman who showed up at his door with cookies and a smile that could melt the Grinch's heart, and fell catastrophically hard. Now he's volunteering for every shift that puts him near her, fixing problems before she notices them, and teaching her to throw axes just to have an excuse to stand close.

His buddies Knox and Hayes are absolutely merciless about it. The town's starting to notice. And Megan? She still thinks he hates her.

When a massive snowstorm traps them together and the truth finally comes out, Megan has to decide: take the career-saving contract offer waiting for her in the city, or stay in Heart Springs with the grumpy mountain man who's been all in since day one.

He's spent weeks pretending to be professional. She's spent weeks trying to prove herself. The only thing more dangerous than her festival plans? The way he looks at her when he thinks she's not watching.

A spicy small-town holiday rom-com featuring a grumpy ex-military hero who falls first and falls hard, a sunshine heroine determined to succeed, meddling best friends, one chaotic dog, and an Axe-Mas Festival worth fighting for.



Genre: Romance

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