The Ice Carver's Christmas Rival
A Holiday Romance

About this book:

The34th Annual Pine Ridge Winter Carnival just forced Nora Hughes into a nightmare: sharing a heated tent with Reid Sullivan, the reckless, chain-saw-wielding rival who shattered her masterpiece three years ago—and the only man who ever made her blood run hot beneath the subzero wind. Fifteen thousand dollars and a championship title are on the line, but with barely eight feet between their pedestals, every flying ice chip and whisper of exhaust feels like a declaration of war. Nora carves with surgical precision; Reid attacks the ice like a force of nature. Neither will yield an inch, not even when a blizzard traps them alone in the canvas palace overnight, the silence between them cracking louder than any frozen block.

Between sabotage suspicions, midnight tool rescues, and the electric hum of a truce sealed with spiced cider, the line between "destroy him" and "kiss him" thins to a razor's edge. Reid sees the sculpture hiding inside the chaos; Nora sees the architecture holding the beauty together. Together, they once took gold at Lake Placid and burned the partnership to ash in a motel room argument. Now, with the town watching and the gala deadline looming, they'll have to decide if their final masterpiece is a trophy—or each other.

Sharp, steamy, and frosted with Vermont charm, *The Ice Carver's Christmas Rival* delivers a masterclass in enemies-to-lovers tension, where every precise cut and reckless swing brings two stubborn artists closer to the one thing neither can engineer: a thaw.