Two old friends, a snowed in cabin, and a mission to save Creekville’s Christmas… Taylor Bixby is content running her café and watching her customers fall in love. She wouldn’t mind a little mistletoe magic herself, but the last kiss to curl her toes was from an old friend–an eggnog-fueled mistake. It’s a good thing he hasn’t been around for the four Christmases since. She’s got her hands full overseeing the town’s most beloved holiday tradition, and she’s fine leaving Levi Taft—and the night they don’t speak of—in the past. Until he walks into her café without warning. Levi Taft is back in Creekville to fix what he broke four years ago. He misses his best friend too much to let their friendship fade, and he sees his chance to make things right when catastrophe threatens Taylor’s ambitious Christmas Town plans. It’s simple. They just need to outrun the blizzard of the decade to wrangle eight grumpy rental reindeer…and escape a snowbound cabin in a forest riddled with absurd amounts of mistletoe. Oh, and restore a little boy’s faith in Santa. Christmas needs saving, but is Taylor willing to try when it means risking her secrets for the only man to ever break her heart? Revisit charming Creekville in this standalone Christmas novella full of the angst and hilarity that only happens when two best friends fall in love. Cocoa Kisses is a light-hearted closed-door rom-com heavy on swoony kisses.
Publication date: Four Petal Press (November 16, 2023)
Pages: 178 pages
ASIN: B0CKCX1H67
About the Author: Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper. She consumes astonishing amounts of chocolate, chick flicks, and romance novels. She grew up in Louisiana and now lives in Southern California with her family, a miniature schnauzer, and a series of doomed houseplants. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the four-time Whitney Award-winning author of nineteen romantic comedies and several novellas.
