Growing Love

A Later in Life Opposites Attract Forced Proximity Christmas Holiday Romance

De: Nina Potter

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

He reads Hemingway. She writes happily ever afters. This Christmas, they'll write their own.

Grumpy meets sunshine in Silver Sound, Alaska.

Axel Lindstrom—a widowed lumber baron, serious reader, and self-imposed hermit—hasn't celebrated Christmas in twelve years. He believes in hard truths, not happy endings.

Vanessa Saunders—a cheerful librarian, secret romance novelist, and eternal optimist—decorates for Christmas in October and believes every story deserves a happily ever after.

They couldn't be more different.

But when matchmaker Eleanor Matthews engineers their meeting, something unexpected happens: the gruff businessman who intimidates everyone else makes the sunny librarian feel safe. And the warm, brilliant woman who lights up every room helps the isolated widower remember what living feels like.

As December snowstorms blanket his mountain cabin and Christmas approaches, their connection deepens into something neither expected. However, Vanessa is hiding the truth about her successful writing career, terrified Axel will judge her the way her ex-husband did. When he discovers she writes the romance novels he has always dismissed as frivolous, everything shatters.

Now Vanessa must defend not just her career, but her worth. And Axel must choose between his intellectual prejudices and the woman who has brought light back into his carefully controlled life.

This Christmas, two wounded hearts will learn that second chances require courage—and that real love means respecting all the parts of someone, even the ones you don't understand.

Perfect for readers who love: Sweet later-in-life romance, Christmas settings, small-town Alaska stories, opposites attract, secret identity reveals, and heroines who refuse to apologize for their passions.