The Christmas We Built

Name: The Christmas We Built
Author: Kelly Collins

by Kelly Collins

Genre: Romance

77 pages

A Christmas-shop owner. A developer with plans for her block. One festival neither can save alone.

Eight years ago, Nora Winters arrived in Holly Creek with two suitcases and found a family on Main Street. Now she owns Winters Wonderland and protects every merchant who gave her a place to belong. When Griffin Cole buys her building and five others, she rallies the town before he can redraw the future they fought to build.

Structural engineer Griffin Cole has six months to prove community-first redevelopment can work. Nora sees a threat. Griffin sees failing foundations, fading storefronts, and a town worth saving. Then the council forces them to co-chair Holly Creek’s Christmas Festival, turning every argument into another reason to wonder what might happen if they stopped fighting.

But the money behind Griffin’s project comes with strings, and Nora’s shop depends on a festival already slipping toward failure. As old wounds collide with new feelings, saving Main Street will require them to risk the one thing neither handles well: trust.

Welcome to Holly Creek, where found family shows up with hammers, casseroles, and room for one more.

Come home to Holly Creek today.

✓ Enemies to Lovers
✓ Forced Proximity
✓ Small-Town Holiday Romance
✓ Found Family
✓ Save the Town
✓ Redeemable Developer Hero
✓ He Falls First
✓ Slow Burn

Heat Level: Steamy
Vibes: Warm, Witty, Emotional, Hopeful
Setting: Holly Creek, Oregon, during the town’s Christmas festival
Ending: HEA, Standalone
Perfect for fans of: Virgin River, Gilmore Girls, and readers who love a Hallmark holiday movie with real stakes

They came to save a block and built a home instead.

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