The Inn Between: A Christmas Romance
She booked seven nights alone. She got a snowstorm, a stranger with a table saw, and a building worth saving.
Noelle Barrow plans other people's perfect days for a living. This year she planned her sister's wedding, watched her mother take it away from her at a dinner party, and booked a week at a shabby Tahoe inn under her own name without telling a soul.
Seven nights. One enormous book. Nobody needing anything.
That lasts about four hours, until a contractor turns on a table saw in the lobby.
Nash Brennan has ten days to make the Ridgeline Inn look loved before a buyer arrives to tear it down. He didn't want company. He doesn't want conversation. He has an opinion about people who put shiplap over rot.
Then the storm closes both roads, the furnace dies, and two people who came here to be alone end up sharing a lobby, a fireplace, and forty-six years of somebody else's Christmas decorations.
By day four they've lit a chandelier that's been half dark since 2021. By day five the whole town has come up a fire road to see it. And by the time the buyer's headlights come up the driveway on the twenty-sixth, Noelle has eleven signed letters of intent, a plan she has no business having, and a very large problem:
She told the buyer's agent that she and Nash were married.
Warm, funny, and genuinely steamy, The Inn Between is a small-town Christmas romance about a woman who has never once been asked what she wants, a man who says exactly what a thing costs, and one building that deserves better than a demolition bid.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Snowed in together, one lobby, two mattresses
- Fake dating that gets out of hand in front of an entire town
- A grumpy contractor and a sunshine planner
- A meddling, feeding, plow-driving small town
- Slow burn that stops being slow on Christmas morning
- Saving the inn, obviously
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