Christmas Lights & Just Mights

I do not need a boyfriend for Christmas.

What I need is peppermint hot chocolate, a holiday getaway, and a front-row seat to watch my best friend play in the big Christmas Day football game.

But when our mutual friend Chad shows up with his two adorable daughters, one massive migraine, and zero nannies to help out–guess who finds herself volunteering to play babysitter? Yep, me.

It’s all fun holiday light shows and ice-skating games until I see him shirtless in the middle of the night.

Suddenly my “single dad friend” is now "ridiculously attractive single dad friend.”

Here’s the problem: He’s ten years older, recently divorced, and definitely not ready for the girls to have a new mom. Besides, I’m on a dating hiatus after almost eloping with someone I barely knew. This is supposed to be a cozy Christmas getaway, not a fall-for-the-single-dad-next-door situation.

Except…he’s working so hard to be the best dad he can be, keeping their Christmas traditions even when it’s hard and making sure the girls get the help they need to deal with their mom leaving. It’s hard not to daydream about being part of his life–of their life.

And just when I think I know what (or who) I want for Christmas, my ex shows up begging for a second chance.

Now I have to revisit the past I thought I wanted … or risk it all on the man who just might be my future.

A cozy, swoony, age-gap, single-dad closed door Christmas romcom—complete with cute kids, holiday magic, and one very inconvenient crush.