Single Dad’s Christmas Cookie by Lydia Hall

’Tis the season for snowstorms, secret desires, and sizzling kitchen encounters!

I’m Nova, the first-grade teacher whose Christmas dreams crumbled faster than day-old cookies.
When desperation leads me to pose as a temporary cook, I discover my new boss is my recent steamy one-night stand.
Enter Bryan Matthews: brooding CEO, single dad, and the man who makes my temperature rise higher than a Christmas soufflé.
His daughter is still raw from her mother’s Christmas abandonment—I should know better than to let either of them into my heart.
But here’s the spice:
A massive snowstorm traps us together.
Between fireside cuddles and cookie-baking kisses, I hear the words that change everything:
“Are you going to be my new mommy?”
Just as our holiday romance starts to simmer…
His ice-queen mother makes it clear: the help doesn’t belong with her son.
Then my ex-best friend arrives with a bombshell that shatters our Christmas dreams.
Now I’m running away on Christmas Eve, leaving behind a heartbroken little girl and her guarded father.
As the bells of Christmas morning ring…
Will I become another holiday heartbreak in their story?
Or could true love melt more than just his mother’s frozen heart this Christmas?