Christmas at the Chow Chow Café

"All the years she'd been gone-all the Decembers he'd spent wondering if she still hated Christmas because of him."

"He gave up the woman of his dreams so she didn't have to give up hers."

Kayla Bennet never planned to come home. Not like this.
Returning to the twinkling, festive town of Sugar Cove to run her sister's beloved Chow Chow Café while she's on her honeymoon was meant to be temporary.
A fresh start. Just a quiet place to breathe. To recover. What no one knows is that Kayla isn't just visiting-she's running from a broken engagement, a job termination, and a life that fell apart in the city. And for now, she intends to keep that devastating truth buried beneath forced holiday cheer.

On her very first day back, Kayla is welcomed by the entire town and blindsided by a box of cupcakes-made by the boy who broke her heart a decade ago. Somehow, Luke Palmer is even more dangerously charming than she remembers, still ruggedly handsome, still impossible to ignore.

Forced into close proximity through Sugar Cove's twelve days of festive holiday events, Kayla and Luke find themselves working side by side, buried beneath Christmas lights, cinnamon-sugar dreams, and memories neither of them ever truly let go. Reliving the past one stolen glance at a time, the sparks between them become impossible to ignore. But so do the secrets Kayla is desperately trying to keep hidden.

As snow falls over the small mountain town and the air fills with pine and sugar, Kayla must decide if she's brave enough to stop running and if risking her heart again is worth the chance at the love she never stopped feeling.

TROPES 🎄💕♥️❄️🧁🐾🤎☕️☃️
❄︎ cozy Christmas vibes
❄︎ small town charm
❄︎ second chance
❄︎ childhood friends to lovers
❄︎ fur baby
❄︎ festive activities
❄︎ fmc has a secret
❄︎ handsome baker