Kiss Me Before Midnight

Bruno goes home for one reason: his mother is sick. He doesn’t plan to stay long, and he definitely doesn’t plan to end up in Leandro Menezes’s kitchen on the eve of Christmas, making gingerbread cookies for the whole town.

Leandro walked into Bruno’s life in seventh grade, lending erasers and never asking for anything back. Then, in eighth grade, he started making his life miserable, and Bruno has spent seven years trying to work out why.

Now Leandro is different. He remembers how Bruno takes his coffee. He’s patient, apologetic, and impossible to hate. And between flour on his cheek, stolen glances over a tray of cookies, and a night Bruno wasn’t supposed to spend at his house, a long-buried secret finally comes out of a small wooden box.

Leandro asks for one thing: an answer, before midnight.

Kiss Me Before Midnight is a warm, slow-burn Christmas romance about second chances, small towns, and the courage it takes to forgive the boy who hurt you.