Bright Winter Lights

Adam Bosch has money, a company, and a mother whose Hanukkah party doubles as an annual matchmaking ambush. His solution is to bring a date, and the person he calls is Sara Schwartz, the high-school sweetheart he has never quite talked himself out of remembering.

Eight nights of candles, family, and a fake arrangement neither of them is very good at faking, and the old spark is back before either will admit it. What kept them apart, though, has not gone anywhere, and pretending in front of the Bosch family means eventually telling each other the truth.

The second entry in Liz Maverick's Winter Nights holiday romance series, originally produced as a full-cast audio production, is a short, cosy, Hanukkah-set second-chance romance.