Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. As an animal lover, the last thing Annaliese Bennett needs is a trapped bear in the shop across from her pet clothing store. But that's exactly what she finds when she returns from being out of town. Worse, the bear has been deliberately trapped by the shop's owner, Will Parker. Will is starting a new life in the town of Reindeer Ridge. His shop, The Big Bear, sells novelty items while also providing guests the chance to see a live bear kept humanely upstairs. Unfortunately, the shop owner across the way seems to be determined to have his shop closed down. But Annaliese soon begins to realize that Will isn’t the bad guy she wants to make him out to be. As their feelings for each other start to grow, they both begin to realize the importance of compromise. This book was previously included in the December 2020 anthology, Small-Town Christmas. The rest of the series was not part of that anthology. The Reindeer Ridge series is a sweet, clean contemporary Christmas series filled with swoon-worthy heroes and a small-town setting.

Love is in the air in Reindeer Ridge as four female shop owners celebrate the season. In Reindeer Ridge, nobody does Christmas better than Ivy Walsh. She owns the town’s only Christmas shop, after all, which sells ornaments and other decorations year-round. So when the town’s wealthiest resident needs someone to make the best Christmas ever for his beloved daughter, he naturally turns to her. Noel Jordan seems to have it all. He owns a thriving ski resort in a beautiful mountain town. His son is a thriving eight-year-old who seems happy. But this is his son’s first Christmas without his mother, and Noel just wants to make it special. So while his son is spending the week with his grandparents, he hires Ivy to turn his home into a winter wonderland. At first, Ivy is put off by her client’s straightlaced personality, but she starts to see slight cracks in his armor. Still…the impenetrable wall he’s built around his heart means she’ll only get hurt if she starts to fall for him. Unfortunately, she’s starting to find it’s not so easy to keep her feelings at bay. The Reindeer Ridge series is a sweet, clean contemporary Christmas series filled with swoon-worthy heroes and a small-town setting.