The Lighting Wars of Willow Creek

About this book:

In the frosted hills of Willow Creek, the holiday season doesn't bring peace—it brings a turf war. Caleb Vance builds Christmas the old-fashioned way: incandescent warmth, hand-bent copper clips, and ladders planted on icy slate. Holly Hayes engineers it: app-controlled micro-LEDs, drone-mapped facades, and algorithms that dance to a smartphone beat. They've spent five Novembers stealing each other's clients and sharpening their knives. Then the Montgomery Estate hits the market—a Gilded Age palace with a $150,000 budget, a Christmas Eve deadline, and a mandate from its sharp-tongued heiress: work together, or lose the job to a Denver conglomerate.

Forced into a shotgun partnership, Caleb and Holly have two weeks to wire forty-five thousand square feet of historic stone, lead gutters that crumble at a touch, and a seventy-eight-foot spire that swallows wind and men whole. Between Caleb's crew of mountain-hardened roofers and Holly's arsenal of smart-arrays, the friction sparks hot enough to melt the December frost. But when a blizzard cuts power and traps them alone in the mansion's carriage house, the blueprints get tossed aside. In candlelight and sub-zero silence, the rivalry burns down to something far more dangerous: a connection neither can afford to short-circuit.

With the gala looming, the grid failing, and the town watching, they'll have to decide if the masterpiece they're building is the light show—or the future they never expected to find in each other's arms. *The Lighting Wars of Willow Creek* is a steamy, laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers holiday romance where high stakes meet higher voltage, and the brightest display of all is the one no app can control.