The Mistletoe Mistake✓
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"We kissed, just for a moment: long enough for our lips to touch, fast enough for me to pull away. A mistake. That's what I told him it was. Then I left him standing beneath the mistletoe with my lip gloss still on his lips."
Clara Bowman, a meticulous rule-follower and habitual worrier, has always spent Christmas alone. That is, until she met her best friend Natalie Northe, and discovered something she never had: a family.
Now, she spends the holidays at the Northes mountain cabin, where she must follow just one rule: never, ever get involved with Jackson Northe.
He's the captain of the Edmonton Northern Rush, hockey's brightest superstar, the reason half the internet forgets decorum in the comment sections...and the first person to turn Clara into a rule-breaker.
Oh, and of course, Natalie's older brother.
Now, back at the cabin together, avoiding Jackson proves impossible. Every lingering glance, every little touch, threatens to expose the secret they've kept for a year-and risk the only family Clara has ever truly had.
This Christmas, Clara has to decide what she's willing to break away from: the rules that have always kept her safe or the heart that's risking everything?
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