Dumped for a Christmas Tree Farmer

In every Christmas movie, the man who gets dumped is forgotten by the second act. He exists only to realize, right before the credits roll, that he worked too much, loved too little, and should have appreciated the heroine before she fell for the rugged local Christmas tree farmer.

If that’s the Christmas story you’re looking for…this isn’t it.
Dumped for a Christmas Tree Farmer is a spicy, small-town holiday romance where the people left behind reclaim the spotlight and become the main characters of their own happily ever after.

Expect a revenge pact, forced proximity, plenty of spice, and two workaholic strangers discovering that sharing a cottage comes with very few boundaries—and even fewer reasons to keep their hands to themselves. Throw in a fiercely protective small town that’s ready to adopt the heroine, and you have a Christmas romance that flips the script on a beloved holiday trope.

If you’re looking for a Christmas romance with a twist, welcome to Bear Hills—where the entire town will watch you punch someone in the nose, then swear under oath they tripped over their own feet.

Maverick
After months of eighty-hour workweeks, I finally had a plan: propose to my girlfriend and spend Christmas with her family in the charming mountain town of Bear Hills.
Instead, I get dumped in spectacular fashion.
One minute I’m carrying an engagement ring in my pocket; the next, I’m watching my almost-fiancée kiss the resident Christmas tree farmer in front of half the town.
With no hotel rooms available and nowhere else to go, I eagerly accept an offer from Indy, the owner of the local B&B…who also happens to be the Christmas tree farmer’s recently ghosted ex.
Now we have a deal: pretend to help each other win back the people who unceremoniously dumped us, survive the holidays under the same roof, and make sure everyone ends up with the right person by New Year’s.
Easy.
Except Indy is all sharp edges, sarcastic remarks, and hidden softness, and the more time I spend with her, the less interested I am in getting Holly back.
Now I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been chasing the wrong future all along.

Indy
Running my late mother’s B&B through the holidays is supposed to be my busiest season, not the season my boyfriend ghosts me.
I thought dating James, Bear Hills’ beloved Christmas tree farmer, meant I’d finally found my forever. Then my ex-best friend Holly came back to town, and James stopped returning my calls.
So when Holly’s sharp-tongued, smooth-talking city boyfriend asks me to help break them up, I should say no.
Instead, I let the handsome workaholic move into my cottage.
Mav is nothing like the men I usually fall for. He notices things. He listens. He sees past my “I’m fine” act in a way no one else ever has. And somewhere between a town snowball fight, secretly buying up the abandoned town bakery, and too many shared glasses of whiskey, I start wondering if I’ve been chasing the wrong man all along.
Falling for Mav would be a terrible idea.
He lives in Seattle. I live in Bear Hills. We both work too much, and our arrangement was never supposed to become real.
But if Christmas has taught me anything, it’s that the best gifts are the ones you never see coming.