The Mele Kalikimaka Consultant: A Grumpy Sunshine Holiday Romance in Hawaii
Stella Bloom
Pua Akamu fixes broken companies for a living. Deadlines. Data. Results. When she’s sent to Maui to rescue a legendary surf shop from bankruptcy before Christmas, it should be just another contract. Fly in. Cut costs. Fly out.
Except the shop’s greatest risk isn’t the debt.
It’s Jonah Ka’ana.
Jonah is a gifted surfboard shaper guarding his family’s legacy with sawdust-covered hands and stubborn pride. The shop is his past, his present, and everything he hopes to protect. Pua’s spreadsheets feel like an invasion. Her efficiency plans feel like a threat to his soul.
They clash instantly. Mainland logic versus island instinct. Optimization versus tradition. Every conversation sparks friction, and every day the deadline creeps closer.
When storms hit, disasters pile up, and they’re forced to work side by side, the lines begin to blur. Beneath the arguments, they discover shared fears of failure, loss, and letting go. In the humid nights and quiet moments between deadlines, attraction grows into something neither of them planned for.
Pua never intended to fall for the man standing in the way of her success.
Jonah never expected the woman challenging his past to become the future he wants.
With Christmas approaching and the shop on the brink, they must decide what matters more. Saving a business. Protecting a legacy. Or risking everything for a love neither of them knows how to control.
A heartfelt, slow-burn contemporary romance about legacy, ambition, and finding love where logic says it does not belong.
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