Ex Marks the Mistletoe

Fake dating their ex. Real feelings. Five days to survive Christmas.

Libby Shaw lights stages for a living. She can make a room glow, make a whole audience cry on cue, and she has not let anyone close enough to see her in five years. Not since she ended things with Jonah Avery two days before Christmas.

Now her grandmother has invited Jonah to the last Christmas in the family house in Decatur, Georgia, the one famous for her late fathers Christmas lights. And she has told the whole family theyre back together.

Nobody has the heart to tell an eighty-eight-year-old shes wrong. So Libby and Jonah make a deal: pretend until Christmas, then a quiet January breakup.

The only problem? Jonah is still the steadiest, kindest man she knows. He still remembers every light in her fathers show. And somewhere between the tree farm, a snow machine that refuses to work, and the longest night of the year, the pretending stops feeling fake.

Ex Marks the Mistletoe is a warm, funny second-chance Christmas novella about grief, family and the courage to be chosen, with a big-hearted Southern family, a scheming grandma, and a happily-ever-after youll want to read with cocoa.

Perfect for fans of Abby Jimenezs holiday stories and cozy, clean Christmas romance.

A closed-door sweet romance: kisses only, no profanity, no on-page intimacy and no alcohol. About 43,000 words. A complete story with a happy ending.