Molly Hartwell had thirty days to save the only home she had ever known.Then the one man who could destroy it walked back into Hollyhock Falls in an expensive wool coat — and somehow she had to pretend to fall for him.The Colton Tree Lot raised Molly. Her father planted a Blue Spruce the year she was born. Her parents died two miles from home in the season's first snowfall, and the lot is all she has left of them — every scarred trunk, every crooked branch, every tree that leans east into the mountain wind.Now the lease is up. Her grandmother's hands shake too hard to keep fighting. And the deed belongs to Jack Colton — back from Chicago with hard eyes, leather-soled shoes, and a developer's arithmetic."This place is a money pit," he told her, like the trees were just numbers on a listing."These trees aren't just trees," Molly shot back. And she made him a promise he didn't believe: the Hollyhock Hustle, a Christmas Eve Eve race to fund a community land trust, would buy the lot right out from under him.She didn't plan on the whole town pushing them together. She didn't plan on a contract neither of them asked for, a festival stage that nearly killed them both, or an almost-kiss under a sky full of stars.She really didn't plan on the secret Jack was carrying — the one that could save the lot or burn it to the ground."I'm betting on this town," she had told him. "I'm betting that Christmas means more than a transaction."But when the truth about the contract he signed finally surfaces, Molly will have to decide whether the enemy who claimed her heart was ever truly her enemy — or the one person fighting hardest to bring her home.Mistletoe and Missteps by Clare N. Thistlewood is a heartwarming small-town Christmas romance about a fake relationship, enemies to lovers, a hidden heir, forced proximity, found family, and a town that refuses to give up on love.Perfect for readers who love small-town Christmas romance, fake-dating and enemies-to-lovers tropes, grumpy-meets-sunshine, second-chance hometowns, and the cozy magic of a Hallmark holiday movie. A standalone romance with a swoony, snow-dusted happily-ever-after.