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Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh as new-fallen snow. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel's sexy new lumberjane muscles acquired from running her family tree farm.
When Morgan discovers that the Reeds' struggling tree farm is the only thing standing between Fern Falls and corporate greed destroying the whole town's livelihood, she decides she can put heartbreak aside to save the farm by planning her best fundraiser yet. She has all the inspiration for a spectacular event: delicious vanilla lattes, acoustic guitars under majestic pines, a cozy barn surrounded by brilliant stars. But she and Rachel will ABSOLUTELY NOT have a heartwarming holiday happy ending. That would be as unprofessional as it is unlikely. Right?
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Release date
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9798765009178
- File size: 271122 KB
- Duration: 09:24:50
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Starred review from August 29, 2022
Kae’s delightful debut elevates the popular Christmastime trope of someone from the big city saving a small town from a heartless developer in a feel-good queer second-chance romance. Event planner Morgan Ann Ross needs to leave Santa Monica after tripping into a gossip-worthy scandal. She takes a gig organizing a fund-raising event in her hometown, Fern Falls, Calif., though she hasn’t been back since her father’s wealthy girlfriend, Christy Vaughn, cruelly rejected his marriage proposal, creating an emotional maelstrom that ruined Morgan’s relationship with her best friend and teen crush, Rachel Reed. Morgan initially balks when she learns that the client is Rachel and her family’s Christmas tree farm, but she softens when she realizes Rachel holds no hard feelings, and goes all in when she discovers that Christy, having taken over a nearby town and transformed it into a ski resort, now intends to raze beloved Fern Falls businesses for an outlet mall. Kae leans heavily into holiday magic without letting things get saccharine, balancing the sweetness of reconnection with steamy eroticism grounded in the feeling of coming home at last. The secondary characters also sparkle, providing cozy feelings of community and support. Readers of all orientations will devour this rainbow-tinted confection. -
Melissa Moran brings a lot of heart to her narration of this queer holiday romance. When Morgan Ross's L.A. event-planning career falls apart after a disaster, she finds herself sent back home to Fern Falls for rest--and to salvage her reputation. She's been a stranger to her friends and family in her picturesque Northern California town since she fled years ago. Now she's stunned to discover that the fundraiser she's hired to run is to save her ex-best-friend (and crush) Rachel Reid's family tree farm from greedy developers. Moran's lively voice conveys all of the emotions as the two find a path forward--and all the steam as they tumble back into their heartwarming second-chance romance. E.E.C. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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