When Holly inherits her aunt’s old bakery in the snow-covered town of Ember Ridge, she plans to fix it, sell it, and get back to city life. Then her car dies, and she meets Cole Bennett the gruff mechanic who’d rather rebuild an engine than have a real conversation.

Cole keeps things simple. Always has. Until Holly shows up with her bright grin, spilling flour on his workbench and shaking up the quiet rhythm he’s built. Between gossip over coffee, flour-dusted mornings, and one relentless snowstorm, they start to see what’s been missing.

Holly’s torn between the life she built and the one she’s stumbled into. Cole’s still learning how to stop hiding behind his past.

In a town lit by Christmas lights and second chances, will they stay when the snow finally melts?

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Each book is a spark in the same winter flame a promise that every heart, once kindled, finds its way home.

Snow drifts past quiet windows. Strings of lights hum in the still air. Inside these five small-town stories, love finds a way to stay warm. In Christmas Hearts on Fire, sheriffs, mechanics, and single dads discover that miracles don’t always make noise they show up in shared laughter, in late-night talks, in someone who feels like home. Each story stands alone, yet together they paint a world where love glows brightest when the nights turn cold.

One spark can thaw a winter. Which heart will catch first?

Ember Leigh Rowan