Sweet Christmas Comeback (Frost Pine Ridge)

Jade Bennett can handle corporate backstabbing and hostile takeovers. A bakery held together by prayer and expired permits, a reindeer farmer with trust issues and a vindictive town inspector with a mysterious grudge? Not so much. When her aunt's beloved Sugar Pine Sweets faces foreclosure, Jade returns to Frost Pine Ridge armed with an MBA and zero idea how to fix a commercial oven. Her only ally is Leo Carter—her high school almost-romance who now raises reindeer and is convinced she'll leave the moment things get hard. Between learning to bake her great-grandmother's legendary recipes, navigating small-town politics, and trying not to fall for a man who rescues her from electrical disasters while protecting his heart, Jade discovers that saving the bakery means saving herself. And maybe—if she can prove she's staying—saving a chance at love with the quiet, stubborn man next door. Because sometimes the sweetest recipe isn't in any cookbook. It's coming home, fighting for what matters, and learning that the people who challenge you the most might be exactly who you need. A heartwarming small-town Christmas romance about second chances, found family, and discovering that home isn't where you ran from—it's where you choose to stay.