Frost Cause

NOELLE

You've probably seen the video.

I'm the girl who tackled a swan at a four hundred thousand dollar wedding. Forty one million people have watched me ride it into a koi pond. I lost my job by email, with a very warm subject line.

So when a dying little town in Montana offers me one last shot, saving its Christmas festival, I say yes before I've finished reading the contract.

There's just one problem. The festival needs his land. And he says no to everything.

Soren Holt is six foot four, three years a widower, and the whole town's favorite lost cause. He doesn't talk. He doesn't smile. He put a chain on his gates and a sign on the chain, and the sign has one word on it.

I have until Christmas Eve. I'm renting the cabin in his backyard. And I've never met a room I couldn't fix.

I'm the most cheerful person you'll ever meet. I've been doing it since I was seven.

I just never planned on the one man in Montana who'd look at my smile and tell me to stop.

SOREN

I don't want a neighbor. I don't want a festival. I want to be left alone until one of us is dead, me or the goose.

She showed up in a snowstorm in ballet flats and told me she loved the concept of my trees.

She's five foot nothing. She's the worst farmhand I ever saw. She sings through my ceiling every morning at ten past five, and she has never once in her life stopped talking.

I've told her no eleven times. She keeps a list.

Then one night I got stuck in a motel with her, and for the first time in three years, I slept.

That's a problem. Everybody in this town thinks they know why I shut those gates. They bring me casseroles. They've been real sorry for me for a long time.

Nobody knows what I did.

She's going to look at me with those big brown eyes until I tell her. And I've never asked anyone for anything in my life.

This is the first book in The Frost Hollow Series. Reading order:

Frost Cause.

Frost for Words.

Frost Without You.