Christmas In Willow Ridge - Hardcover

by Faith Newcomb (Author)

Nora Bennett has one rule: Cole Mercer is off-limits.

He's her brother's best friend. He's practically family. And seven years ago, he made it painfully clear that "Owen's little sister" was all she'd ever be to him - no matter how long she spent wishing otherwise.

So when her family's annual Christmas trip to their cabin in Willow Ridge turns into a week trapped in one bedroom with Cole, one bed, and a blizzard that isn't letting up anytime soon, Nora tells herself she can survive it. She's not nineteen anymore. She's over him.

Cole has spent a decade convincing himself that wanting Nora isn't worth what it would cost him. The Bennetts are the only family he has left that's actually close - the people who show up, who set a place at the table without being asked, who never once made him feel like a guest. If he crosses the one line he swore he'd never cross and it goes wrong, he doesn't just lose her. He loses all of it.

But a storm-wrecked Christmas market, a town full of people who fall in love without flinching, and one impossible week of pretending he doesn't notice the way she still says his name - it's getting harder to remember why staying away was ever the safer choice.

Some traditions are worth keeping.

Some rules are made to be broken.

And some Christmases change everything.