Can this year's December curse finally be rewritten into a happily ever after?

From crafting happily-ever-afters to yearning for her own, Cora Cooper's life is far from the passionate tales she pens as a romance editor. Healing from a broken engagement and haunted by a string of December heartbreaks, she's content admiring love from a safe fictional distance...until a twist of fate and a disastrous blind date reunite her with the man she once saved from a fiery demise-Jake Rhoades.

Blessed with leading-man looks and a velvet voice, Jake seems to have it all, whether he's pouring coffee of serenading bar patrons. But behind his charming facade lies a grief-stricken soul, haunted by a tragic past that claimed his one true love. Keeping his heart sealed off feels safe. Until Cora sees straight through to the aching depths he's hidden for so long.