Along Came Holly

Along Came Holly is the third book in Codi Hall's Mistletoe Romance series, set in Mistletoe, Idaho, a town that takes Christmas as seriously as its name suggests.

Holly Winters was raised on a Christmas tree farm by parents who named their children Nick, Merry and Holly. She now runs the most relentlessly festive shop on Main Street. Declan Gallagher runs the hardware store next door, has no patience for tinsel, and is the last person in town anyone would ask for help with a holiday display. Holly asks anyway, and the two of them discover a chemistry neither had planned for.

Hall closes the series in the same register she opened it: a grumpy-and-sunshine pairing, a small town full of returning faces, and a steamy contemporary romance with a guaranteed happy ending. It reads on its own, though Nick and Merry's books set up the family.