Part of Fool's Gold, book 9.5
First published 2012
Evie Stryker limps back into Fool's Gold, California, nursing both a career-ending injury and years of family wounds. The town's relentless Christmas spirit grates against her cynicism about holiday miracles. She never expected them before, and she won't start now. Her brother's best friend Dante Jefferson complicates everything. The jaded lawyer has relocated to this small town against his better judgment, and the constant noise from dance classes above his office drives him to confront their teacher. When he meets Evie, attraction hits him hard. She represents everything he should avoid. She's off limits, his best friend's sister, and loving her would mean risking his carefully guarded heart. Evie gets recruited to stage the town's winter festival, but she plans to fulfill her obligation and leave. Neither she nor Dante counted on Fool's Gold's particular brand of magic, the kind that transforms skeptics and makes believers out of people who have given up on Christmas miracles.
Genres: romance, contemporary-romance, holiday, family-drama
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: California, Fool's Gold
Period: Christmas
292 pages · Hardcover · HQN