Alice doesn't want to go to this Christmas party. Pretending to be straight around all her family and the Fowler family for an entire month to prepare for a ball, for her to dance with the man they want her to marry is not in the top 100 ways to spend December. But since her family is paying her tuition, she can't risk saying no. Besides, it's only once every ten years. She just has to survive. She thinks she can handle it, until she finds out her rehearsal partner she'll be spending the month with is the same one from ten years before—and the first girl Alice ever liked. And unfortunately for her, her feelings haven't changed. The Christmas Ball is a 50k-word f/f romance with family drama, a secret romance, a childhood crush, plenty of mutual pining, and of course, they only have one bed. Content warning for open-door sex scenes, queerphobia, and a really sleazy man.

Alice had no choice but to leave Lisette, three years into the romance that all started with the family Christmas ball every ten years. With Richmond family head and Alice’s aunt Gina offering an ultimatum that held Alice’s niece Rose hostage, she had no choice but to break up with the woman she loved—or to convince Lisette to break up with her, even if by lying. When Lisette got her dream job offer in a different continent, she never thought leaving for France meant leaving Alice, too. But only a few months later, Alice shook her world telling Lisette she’d cheated on her, and she never dared open her heart again. Seven more years after, the two of them never thought they could fall in love again—let alone with one another. But the Christmas ball comes every ten years, and the two of them find themselves together again in the same place they fell in love the first time. Things are different this time. The two of them, disillusioned by an exploitative and outdated tradition in this Christmas ball, only agree to cooperate on a shared objective: to end this tradition that broke both of them and threatens the happiness of the few family members they’ve ever been close to, and to make this the last Christmas ball. But the love they shared ten years ago wasn’t a coincidence, and the draw between the two of them is irrefutable. And maybe this year, trying to end a family tradition older than their grandparents will bring them to what family really is, and that sometimes, falling in love is worth the risk. No matter how fragile or how impossible. The Last Christmas Ball is a 100k second-chance Christmas romance that takes place ten years after The Christmas Ball, dealing with themes of chosen family, trust and forgiveness, and of choosing happiness for ourselves. Content warnings for religious homophobia, open-door sex scenes, really nasty family members, and lesbians who are obviously in love with each other but keep making bad decisions.