Yuletide Acres

♥♥♥♥♥ A spicy, second-chance romance involving a free spirit, a drool-worthy single dad, his precocious six-year-old daughter, and a healthy dose of magic. ♥♥♥♥♥

Poppy:

I loved Dylan, but he left anyway.

He slipped away in the middle of the night without any warning, and he never returned. He didn't even say goodbye. An abrupt end to the biggest love I've ever known.

Sounds like lyrics to the latest country song, but every word of this ditty is true.

Even now, ten years later, the man still crosses my mind. Is he healthy? Happy? Sexy and delectable?

Imagine my surprise when I move to a small Montana village, only to learn the mayor is the same man who ghosted me years earlier.

To answer that last question, the term delectable doesn't do Dylan justice.

Only one obstacle to our joyous reunion. He hates me. At least that's what I thought...until he kissed me, upending any semblance of normalcy in my world.

The feelings between us still burn hot, but my heart can't handle another round with Disappearing Dylan.

I also can't stay away from him.

Dylan:

My biggest life regret was leaving Poppy ten years ago. I never even told her goodbye. But she was the ultimate free spirit, and I needed to grow up and join the real world.

So I left her-and my heart-in the California desert, returning home to my tiny Montana town.

Time moved on, and I thought I had as well. Until one fateful morning when I went to greet our town's newest resident and watched my past collide with my present.

Now, she's under my skin, just like a decade earlier, sexier and feistier than ever before. I want nothing more than to make her mine, but I doubt a single father holds much appeal for a woman like Poppy.

There's only one solution-I can't let her near my heart again.

But I know that idea is moot. Poppy has owned my heart all along.