The Festival Fix: A Small-Town Opposites-Attract Cozy Holiday Romcom with a Christmas Wish Tree (Wishes & Woodsmoke #1)

She planned for every detail of her perfect life — except for him.

When Boston event planner Margot Hale arrives in the snow-buried town of Prescott, she has three save a failing Christmas Festival as a favor to her aunt, fill her suspiciously empty December, and absolutely do not think about the wedding binder sitting untouched in her apartment.

What she doesn't plan for is being forced to co-chair the festival with Ben Braggs — a quiet, steady widower who builds furniture with his hands and has no interest in her spreadsheets, her corporate sponsors, or her very sensible feelings about "optimizing" a small-town tradition.

He wants to keep it simple. She wants to scale it up. He moves at the pace of hand-planed cherry wood. She moves at the pace of a headset and a clipboard. And somehow, between a catastrophic gingerbread house competition, a blizzard that refuses to cooperate, and an ancient oak tree in the town square that has a peculiar habit of granting exactly the wish you didn't know you needed — they start to build something neither of them was prepared for.

The Festival Fix is a warm, witty holiday romance about two people who were very good at staying safe — and what happens when a small town refuses to let them.

This sweet, clean Christmas romcom Forced partnership to lovers where co-chairs can't agree on anythingOpposites attract between a city perfectionist and small-town woodworkerWounded hearts healing through a broken engagement and quiet griefCozy small-town Christmas setting with snow, a diner, and nosy localsMagical realism featuring an ancient Wish Tree that knows better
Book 1 in the "Wishes & Woodsmoke" Christmas Romcom series