Happily ever after starts at Happy Acres…or does it? Holiday checklist: • Spend time with my family while staying at Happy Acres Orchard and recovering from life implosion #1. • Getting my mojo back by working in the gift shop and our brand new venture, the CocoaBus. • Resisting kisses from the handsome, mysterious, pain in the butt owner of the nearby Christmas tree farm. New holiday checklist (last one went off the rails): • Having good old-fashioned fun with my family while serving our many customers at the busiest time of the year. • Regaining my confidence in marketing and working with the public, what I do best. • Lots and lots of steamy no-strings holiday hijinks with the deliciously annoying man I can’t keep my hands off…and it’s not just because he has the finest tree—ahem, trees—around. Final holiday checklist (you know the drill): • Survive Christmas after life implosion #2 courtesy of the enigmatic man I couldn’t keep myself from falling for—or maybe, just maybe, find the way to save the holiday for both of us. Author’s note: Fiancée by Christmas is the first book in our Happy Acres contemporary romance series, which is set near Crescent Cove. This book has a happily-ever-after—assuming Rachel doesn’t kill Clay, which is always a possibility—and no cliffhanger.