Jaxson Cole is a ghost. Ten years ago, the brooding bad boy of Silver Creek left town without a goodbye to chase Formula 1 fame. Now, he’s back—disgraced, hiding from a scandal, and looking more like a bearded mountain man than a world-class mechanic.

He wants to be left alone. He wants to fix up his dad’s old cabin and disappear.

I’m Casey Miller, the town’s designated "Sunshine Guy." I run the struggling auto shop, organize the Christmas Parade, and wear elf hats unironically. But when the legendary parade truck dies four days before Christmas, taking my shop’s survival with it, I have to beg the one man I swore I’d never speak to again for help.

Jax agrees to fix the engine, but only if we work in secret. At night. In the dark, heated intimacy of my garage.

Ten years haven't cooled the heat between us. Jax is grumpier, bigger, and more guarded than ever, but his hands... his hands still know exactly how to make me unravel.

But just as we start to rebuild what we lost, disaster strikes. A slashed fuel line. A car run off the road. An arsonist targeting my shop. Someone doesn't want the parade to happen, and they definitely don't want Jax in town.

Trapped in a blizzard with a saboteur on the loose, we have to decide what’s worth fighting for: the town that raised us, or the second chance at love that might just save us both.

Mistletoe & Motor Oil is a high-heat, standalone M/M romantic suspense novel. Expect grease-stained hands, forced proximity, a vintage truck chase, and a guaranteed HEA under the tree.