
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Angsty
Enemies to Lovers
Family Relationships
Fish Out of Water
Forced Proximity / Stranded Together
Grumpy / Sunshine
Holiday
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Only One Bed
Pet / Wild Animal
Quirky Characters
Vacation / Travel
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Editor / Publishing / Literary Agent
Geographic Location:
United States: New England / Northeast
Setting:
Hotel / Inn
Seaside / Beach
Small Town / Rural
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Queer
Christmas Inn Maine
By Chelsea M. Cameron
It will take nothing short of a miracle to melt Colden's heart, but Laura is up for the challenge.
All Colden Hayes wanted was to spend Christmas by herself in a cottage by the sea where the cheer of the holiday season couldn’t reach her. Everything was going according to plan until the cottage she rented turned out not to exist and she ends up snowed in at a charming inn that happens to be owned by the family of her most-hated coworker, Laura Sterling. Talk about bad luck.
Colden ends up saying yes to Laura’s mother when she insists on giving her a room. It’s only for a night, but she somehow finds herself agreeing to spend Christmas with the Sterlings as well. She blamed the festive atmosphere that she couldn’t seem to escape. Maybe there’s something in the mistletoe?
Against her will, Colden finds herself being sucked into the comfort and joy of the season, even though she can’t seem to escape Laura, who is literally everywhere Colden is, like she’s doing it on purpose. Things get even worse when they’re forced to share a bed when there’s a fire at a local farm and the inn offers all the available rooms to the family.
Colden finally realizes there’s a thin line between annoyance and attraction, and she and Laura definitely crossed it. She’s also pretty sure that Laura’s mother is shipping them hard and so is the rest of her family, right down to her great-grandmother whose main companion is a two-hundred-pound pig named Minnie.
Will the magic of the holiday season melt Colden’s heart? Or will she go back to Boston alone, with only the memories to keep her warm?