No Christmas Clause

She decorates to forget. He forbids Christmas to survive. Their collision will shatter everything they've carefully constructed.

Event architect Sloane Hartfield has spent thirteen years transforming grief into glitter, building perfect celebrations for strangers while the ghost of her mother haunts every ornament. When reclusive tech CEO Julian Falcrest hires her for his company gala with one non-negotiable demand—absolutely no Christmas—she sees a professional challenge and a personal war she's determined to win.

But Julian's forty-seven restrictions aren't quirks. They're armor. And the more Sloane infiltrates his minimalist world with strategic warmth, the more she realizes they're both running from the same wound, just in opposite directions. As forced proximity turns into something neither of them planned, the December 18th gala becomes a deadline for more than an event—it's a reckoning with everything they've refused to face.

Two people. Two methods of survival. One question: Can love exist between someone who celebrates too much and someone who refuses to celebrate at all?