One Shop Over

Christmas in Juniper Falls is Elodie Fox's favorite time of year, when snow dusts the rooftops, lights glow along Main Street, and her whimsical little shop is overflowing with holiday magic. Shy, curvy, and never quite as confident in herself as she wishes she were, Elodie certainly isn't expecting the gorgeous older man she spent one very out-of-character night with last summer to appear months later in Juniper Falls.Grant Blackwood is a bearded lumberjack of a man, and he's still every bit as taken with Elodie as he was the first time they met. Now he's opening a woodcarving shop one shop over from hers, and when his historic manor needs a Christmas makeover for the town's holiday house tour, the two of them end up spending their days tangled in garland and their nights tangled up in each other.Neither of them expected to find each other again, let alone fall so easily into something that feels this good. But somewhere between the mistletoe, the late nights, and a house slowly filling with Christmas, Elodie and Grant are about to discover just how quickly the unexpected can start to feel meant to be.