Snowbound at Juniper Crossing

June Ostrander swore she’d never spend another winter in Juniper Crossing, Montana. Twelve years of city event planning cured her of small-town sentiment—until her grandmother’s failing health drags her back to the family lodge for the holidays.

What she finds is worse than nostalgia: Sawyer Brandt, the rival innkeeper who bought the lakeside parcel she always assumed would be hers, has somehow become the town’s golden boy. He’s warm where she’s wary, patient where she’s all sharp edges, and absolutely insufferable about it.

Then the storm hits. Snowed in together with the town’s beloved Christmas festival days away and both their businesses on the line, June and Sawyer strike a truce: co-host the festival or watch the season—and their livelihoods—collapse.

Forced proximity turns reluctant teamwork into something that feels dangerously like falling. But the closer they get, the more the old family feud unravels. The grudge their grandparents carried to the grave was never about a property line at all. It was about a secret that could either give June and Sawyer a future—or prove they were never meant to have one.