Book Description

She wants to help the ones she loves. He wants to be left alone. When successful event planner Carson Everett returns to New England to help her newly divorced sister get through the holidays, she knows a festive paint and sip event will be just the thing to brighten the season. She’ll do all the planning, her sister, the artist, will run the class. All she needs is the perfect place to host it. Techie-turned-vintner, Tom Wyatt, traded his high-stress life in the city for a quieter life in the small New England town of Hazelton. Though he prefers to be left alone, Tom has a hard time resisting Carson’s bubbly personality and warm smile. Despite the risk to his already bruised heart, he agrees to let Carson use his store for her event. They both know what happens next can only be a holiday fling. She has a life and a career in another town. He has a business to run and a past that he can’t forget. But as one year draws to a close, they begin to wonder if there’s any chance of a future together. Can either of them finally gain the courage to express what they truly need?