Winter Snow hates the holidays. Plagued with a name that got her teased nonstop throughout her childhood, she dreads Christmas time. A cash-strapped grad student by day, she decides to kill two turtle doves with one stone by throwing herself into her night-shift cleaning job over the holidays. That should keep her away from yucky Yuletide and all it brings, right?

William Holiday, this year's Santa for his fire station's fund-raiser, needs a last-minute replacement elf. Scrambling to find a fill-in who's there for the kids instead of flirting with fire fighters, Will sees the sexiest woman ever, cleaning spray and rag in hand, curvy hips wiggling to the music playing in her ears. She'd be the perfect little helper for his North Pole. If he can only get her sitting on his lap, all his Christmas wishes will come true.

Reader Advisory: This story has graphic sexual language and scenes—no closed bedroom doors (or other rooms) here!

An adult contemporary romance from Ellora's Cave