All Wrapped Up in You

Piper is a stand-up comedian who has a panic attack outside a comedy club. Scott, an ER doctor who was in the audience, is the stranger who stays with her and talks her through her breathing until it passes.

Neither of them knows that they live next door to each other. The two share a wall, and they only work that out later.

Once they do, a misdelivered package gives them an excuse to keep bumping into one another. Their meetings are comic, the banter is quick, and the pair stay oblivious to what is building between them.

This is a holiday romance novella of 76 pages, one of the short, feel-good Christmas romances in the Home Sweet Holidays collection. The tone is light and warm, with some real tenderness under the jokes, and it fits easily into a single sitting.

A mix-up on Christmas Eve finally pushes the two neighbors together. The question is whether two people who already share an address can see how much else they have in common.