Mistletoe Bay

Cooper Armstrong has come home to Maine from California, leaving behind an ex who cheated on him and his plans to settle down. He now looks after his ailing father and is learning his route as the area's new UPS man.

One stop on that route is the property of Jenni Wright, whose new business keeps him making deliveries every day. Jenni shares a rickety house, held together with duct tape, with her three young sons, her mother-in-law and a teenage niece. Coop starts pitching in as handyman, and the boys take to him at once.

Jenni is certain a man like Coop would run a mile before getting tangled up in the chaos of her household. Coop, expecting a cold and lonely winter, finds that she keeps proving him wrong.

The story is a small-town contemporary romance set in the seaside community of Mistletoe Bay, and it runs from Thanksgiving through Christmas. The tone is warm and family-centred, with a holiday setting and a slow-building attraction between two people who each have a full life of obligations.