Audacious

Jeff Norouzi is the corporate lawyer Roxanne introduces as "my son who doesn't look like the others," and he has spent thirty-three years trying to fit the Norouzi frame. His law partner Miley Parker is the sharpest opposing counsel in Manhattan and the only person who ever lets him be just Jeff. At his cousin Michael and Britney's Christmas wedding in Virgin Cove, she's dodging a matchmaking mother in Wintervale. He's dodging a toxic ex named Tom. A fake-date favor gets proposed somewhere between the second round of champagne and the first dance.

Then the letter arrives.

*Someone in Wintervale knew your mother.*

One snowy small town. One sweet-as-gingerbread Hallmark matchmaking festival. One quiet lawyer about to find out exactly why he's always felt like the outsider at his own family dinners.

Fake dating. Coworkers-to-lovers. Small-town Christmas. Adopted hero's birth-parent reveal. Holiday romance.