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Product details
- ISBN 9781335081926
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 136 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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A sapphic hockey romance following an Olympian who reluctantly returns home for the holidays and her former childhood crush as they team up to win their small town’s annual holiday contest—and its fancy romantic prize—for fans of second chance, seasonal romances
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there’s a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend’s older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She’s never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town’s holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can’t see herself living in Hart’s Landing again and Ali can’t imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali’s mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet…or the start of something magical.
"A spicy, sapphic, cozy holiday romance that will leave you curling your toes and smiling at the pages long into the night! Readers who love small town vibes, sports romances, and brother's best friend tropes will devour this book in one sitting and come back for more." —Lindsay Maple, author of Holly Jolly July
Puck Struck
• Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
• Yours for the Season
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there’s a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend’s older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She’s never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town’s holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can’t see herself living in Hart’s Landing again and Ali can’t imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali’s mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet…or the start of something magical.
"A spicy, sapphic, cozy holiday romance that will leave you curling your toes and smiling at the pages long into the night! Readers who love small town vibes, sports romances, and brother's best friend tropes will devour this book in one sitting and come back for more." —Lindsay Maple, author of Holly Jolly July
Puck Struck
• Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
• Yours for the Season
Kate Cochrane lives outside Boston with her wife, two children, and charming but badly-behaved chocolate Labrador.
