Helena Brightwater has one goal this Christmas: win Mistletoe Springs’ over-the-top Glow-Up decorating competition and finally prove her artistic vision is more than glitter and chaos. What she doesn’t have? The engineering know-how to make her grand design sparkle. Or a boyfriend, but that doesn’t stop her from blurting to her smug ex that she’s happily taken.
Enter Finn Castellano, her best friend’s older brother. He’s grumpy, practical, and back in town only to endure a week of family holiday traditions. Helping Helena with her fairy-light extravaganza and pretending to be her doting boyfriend wasn’t on his carefully drafted plans.
But between tangled lights, nosy neighbors, and one very meddlesome town, their fake dating pact starts to feel a lot less fake. And as snow falls over Mistletoe Springs, Finn discovers that the one woman he swore was too chaotic for him might be the only one who feels like home.
A fake relationship.
A holiday competition.
One small-town Christmas that could rewrite everything.
