Right Under the Mistletoe

Josie Marlow has twelve days to decide whether to take the job of her dreams three states away. Twelve days that happen to be the exact same window she and her lifelong best friend, Sawyer Briggs, spend building Pinehollow's annual Winter Festival together — the festival they've run side by side since they were teenagers. Sawyer hung the first sprig of mistletoe over the town gazebo when he was sixteen, half as a joke and half as the only way he knew how to hide exactly how he felt about the girl who'd never once looked at him as anything more than her best friend. He's kept the tradition alive every December since, certain the moment to say anything real had already passed him by. When the deadline shrinks to seven days and the truth finally slips out under string lights and falling snow, Josie and Sawyer have to figure out whether fourteen years of careful friendship can survive becoming something else — and whether wanting a dream career and a hometown love story has ever actually required choosing only one. A heartwarming, clean friends-to-lovers holiday romance about asking for what you want instead of assuming the answer will always be no, perfect for fans of slow burn, small-town Christmas charm, and the one person who was right under the mistletoe the whole time.