Christmas at the Clear Creek Inn

Checklist for a perfect holiday:
Victorian inn ➤ check.
Eccentric innkeepers ➤ check.
Cast-iron ladle used as a gavel ➤ …check.
Your high-school nemesis across the dinner table ➤ help.

After eight years away, fitness author Talia King sneaks into Clear Creek determined to enjoy a quiet holiday—preferably far from sisters who push fudge like a food group and the memories of being the “fluffy” girl no one saw. The freshly restored Clear Creek Inn looks like a postcard… until dinner introduces her to the one guest she never wanted to see: Grayson Brody, former golden boy and champion tormentor, now inconveniently handsome—and disarmingly humble.

Grayson has spent years rewriting his story, starting with a promise to be the kind of man his grandpa would be proud of. Step one this Christmas? Apologize to the girl he wronged. Step two? Don’t fall for her while stringing lights for the inn’s caroling party under the watchful eyes of four eccentric innkeepers (and one lethal cast-iron ladle).

Snow falls, cookies vanish, and forgiveness starts to look a lot like love. Enjoy this sweet, funny, small-town sparkle of a story. Welcome back to Clear Creek.

Note to readers: This book was part of Banter and Blushes 2024 December Dreams Anthology.