THORNBURY RIDGE · BOOK TWO · OUT NOW

Sugar Season

A Spicy Small-Town Christmas Romance

By Tessaly Marchbank · Thornbury Ridge

An ER nurse, a fire chief who says no first, and a town betting on how long their secret lasts.

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About the book

She runs toward trouble. He counts the exits.

ER nurse June Fenwick has delivered a baby in a pickup truck, held a stranger's airway on a frozen hillside, and never once let anyone see her sweat. So when she agrees to spend a Vermont Christmas teaching the Thornbury Ridge volunteer fire department, she expects long days, bad coffee, and zero distractions.

Then the only rental in town turns out to be the apartment over Fire Chief Theo Bell's garage.

Theo is six foot four of quiet, careful, and impossible. He says no to everything first. He knows where every exit is. And he has spent ten years making sure nobody in his town ever goes into danger alone, especially not the woman who keeps correcting his splints in front of his entire crew.

One ice storm, one Santa Run, and one very bad idea later, June writes down her terms: nobody finds out, it ends when her leave does, and no sleeping over.

But in a town with a betting jar on the diner counter, secrets don't stay secret. And when a winter crash forces them onto opposite sides of the hardest call of his life, Theo has to decide whether he can love a woman who will always run toward the fire.

Sugar Season is a spicy, heartfelt, standalone small-town Christmas romance with rivals to lovers, a secret relationship, forced proximity, a first-responder hero who falls first, a meddling town, cameos from Goldie, Cal and Biscuit, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book 2 in the Thornbury Ridge series.