Neat but Naughty

SMALL TOWN RULES. BIG TOWN SECRETS & A BOSS SHE LOVES TO HATE.

BENTLEY
My rival, Francheska Taylor, is chaos in jingle-bell booties. Fiery, stubborn, and completely off-limits. She glares; I grin. She scowls; I flirt. Underneath the sparks and snark, something real is brewing. She’s my employee, ten years my junior. I should know better than to even think this way. Because if she ever learns the truth about who I am - and why I came to Evermere - it’ll blow up everything between us.
Still, some disasters are worth the risk.
This Christmas, all bets are off.

FRANCHESKA
Coming home to Evermere was supposed to be fix Dad’s business, dodge small-town gossip, and leave again. Then he shows up - Bentley Cartwright. Older, smug as sin, and irritatingly good-looking. Worse, he works for the company trying to crush everything my dad built. I hate him by association. But one stack of overdue notices and a ‘totally coincidental’ run-in later, he’s my new boss.
Now we’re breaking every rule we swore we’d keep,
and it’s getting harder to pretend I don’t care.

In this slow-burn holiday romance bursting with small-town charm, family secrets, and forbidden sparks, expect a reverse grumpy/sunshine twist, secret identities, and just enough heat to melt that winter chill - especially after hours, when no one’s watching.