Book overview
She fixes everyone's messes.
Coming home means facing the one man who never needed fixing.
Charlotte "Charlie" Hayes has built a career out of fixing other people's disasters. As a music publicist, she can spin a scandal, save a reputation, and make the messiest men look good-even the one she's dating.
So when her famous boyfriend's career implodes days before Christmas, Charlie throws herself into saving it-until Brent cancels their lease without a word and vanishes on tour. Homeless and single, Charlie is forced back to the small Connecticut hometown she thought she'd escaped, complete with holiday cheer, painful family memories, and Hunter Wells, the maddeningly good best friend she's been avoiding.
Hunter has spent years loving Charlie quietly because he knew she wasn't ready. But now she's back, and he's done waiting. With a thriving dog-walking business and a life rooted in Pinegrove, Hunter doesn't need saving. He just needs Charlie to stop running long enough to imagine the life she never let herself want: one with him.
But as Charlie manages her ex's high-pressure tour from afar, small-town Christmas starts to feel less like an escape and more like a beautiful mess-one she doesn't have to clean up alone. Hunter will always belong to the town she spent years outrunning, and Charlie can't build a future with him without facing the past that drove her away. For their love to last beyond Christmas, can they make room for both their dreams-and a version of home Charlie is finally ready to trust?