Burned By Santa's Deputy

He's grumpy, she's on the run-and this Christmas, they just might save each other. Event planner Noelle Parker wasn't planning to crash her car-or her life-on the snowy roads outside Aspen Grove. But when her ex starts hunting her down, the only man standing between her and danger is a broad-shouldered deputy with a beard as rough as his voice. Deputy Hank Brennan stopped believing in Christmas miracles the day he buried his wife.
Playing Santa's helper at the town festival is just a way to keep his late mother's tradition alive-until Noelle shows up, trembling and stubborn and everything he swore he'd never want again. Snowed in, hiding out, and forced together by circumstance, the line between protection and passion starts to blur. She's sunshine through his storm. He's safety she never thought she'd find again. In a town lit with Christmas lights and second chances, their hearts are about to learn that sometimes love is the best kind of rescue.
Tropes: Grumpy/sunshine, protective hero, small-town Christmas romance, forced proximity, found family, healing from trauma, possessive hero, HEA.