The Christmas Cookie Cottage (Sugarplum Ridge #1)

Michelle Vance traded her high-powered food critic career in Manhattan for a quiet Christmas in Sugarplum Ridge—just long enough to nurse a broken heart and avoid her ex's Instagram stories. But when Aunt Linda volunteers her to judge the town's beloved Christmas Cookie Contest, Michelle discovers her co-judge is Chase her high school crush, now a devastatingly handsome widowed baker with an adorable eight-year-old daughter.

Between gingerbread critiques and cookie decorating sessions, Michelle finds herself falling for Chase's warm smile and Ellie's irresistible charm. But Chase is hiding a heartbreaking his family's bakery is weeks away from foreclosure, and this contest might be his last chance to save it.

As Christmas Eve approaches, Michelle must return to her safe, solitary life in New York, or risk her heart—and her professional reputation—to fight for the family she never knew she needed.

Sometimes the sweetest recipe for love includes a dash of hope, a sprinkle of small-town magic, and one little girl's Christmas wish.