The Christmas Tree Lot Wars
A Small Town Holiday Romance

About this book:

For generations, the O'Hanlons and Sterlings have waged a polite, frost-bitten war across a rusted chain-link fence in Pine Ridge, Vermont. But when a lucrative state contract for the Bicentennial Capitol tree offers the only lifeline for both failing farms, Nora O'Hanlon and Griffin Sterling are forced into an uneasy truce—and a desperate charade. To win over a sharp-eyed state inspector who values "rural harmony" above all, they must convince her they're not just business partners, but a couple deeply in love, merging their legacy lands and their lives.

What starts as a strictly transactional arrangement—shared equipment, a hyphenated business name, and a carefully staged kitchen—quickly thaws into something far more dangerous. Between frantic fence-draping, the hunt for the legendary Golden Spruce, and the inspector's imminent arrival, old grudges spark into unexpected heat. Every staged touch and rehearsed story feels uncomfortably real, and the line between performing for the contract and admitting the truth blurs in the glow of fairy lights and woodsmoke.

With bankruptcy deadlines looming, a meddling mayor pulling strings, and sixty feet of perfect spruce hanging in the balance, Nora and Griffin have until Christmas to decide if their truce is just another battle strategy—or the beginning of a peace treaty written in pine needles and sealed with a kiss under the mistletoe. *The Christmas Tree Lot Wars* is a steamy, witty, heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romance where the only thing sharper than the banter is the saw.