The Santa School Rivalry
A Holiday Romance

About this book:

At St. Nicholas Academy, the curriculum is brutal, the competition is fierce, and the only thing more dangerous than a chimney descent simulation is falling for your rival.

Holly Evans needs the Kringle Cup—and the Zurich contract that comes with it—to save her family's legacy agency from ruin. She has the discipline, the pedigree, and a spreadsheet for every contingency. What she doesn't have is patience for Nick Sterling: six feet of lumberjack charm, artisanal beard oil, and a West Coast festival empire that's also teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He's her opposite in every way—instinct where she has protocol, warmth where she has precision—and the academy's intimidating Dean has just declared them "two halves of an acceptable student." Forced into adjacent dorm rooms and paired for every punishing practicum from bell-ringing syncopation to sub-zero endurance trials, Holly and Nick launch a rivalry that's equal parts strategic sabotage and simmering tension. But as cocoa crawls, mistletoe incidents, and a snowed-in chalet weekend blur the line between competition and something far more dangerous, they'll have to decide if winning is worth losing each other.

*Corde Puro, Pondere Firmo*—Pure of Heart, Firm of Weight. Welcome to the most wonderful fight of the year.