A Winter’s Kiss. Romance is here, #11

When Emily Carter returns to Willow Creek for the holidays, she expects snow, gingerbread contests, and small-town gossip-not Lucas Hale, her childhood best friend and the boy she once loved. Lucas is everything she remembers-steady, kind, and still impossibly handsome-but the walls Emily built around her heart are hard to break. As they're thrown together for the town's Winter Market preparations, their playful rivalry rekindles something deeper.
Between snowed-in nights by the fire, laughter-filled gingerbread contests, and a magical winter ball, Emily begins to wonder if coming home was fate's way of giving her a second chance. But when old fears resurface and family expectations threaten to pull her away again, Emily must decide if she's ready to stop running-and risk everything for the love she's never forgotten. A heartwarming friends-to-lovers romance full of snowflakes, slow-burn chemistry, and small-town holiday magic, A Winter's Kiss will leave you believing in second chances and happily-ever-afters.