I actually grabbed this story in the larger "Mountain Springs Christmas" set of three short stories ... but I think I'll stop here at the one, so was glad to find just the first book/novella as an individual entry. I just have quite a few Christmas stories on my list, so unless I really liked an author, I'm spreading out my time. I did start the second novella "The Christmas Pact" which shifts the focus to the sister of the MC here ... maybe I'll come back to it, we'll see. Text in KU, audio on Hoopla.

This felt very Hallmark-ey ... it was a "cute and clean" and lots of "gran-gran" memories (that has never been a family term and just felt too much for me).  The one family was a little TOO Christmasy with all their little contests and traditions ... maybe I'm a bit of a grinch.

Past tense/3rd person, switching between the POV of Noelle and Jack ... her name as she was born on Christmas Eve, his, born in January, so "Jack Frost" idea.  Single narrator in audio, which is fine for the 3rd person presentation, but sometimes my mind would wander and I'd forget if we were in a Noelle or Jack chapter, and couldn't tell from the voice.

SPOILERS ... this had the boss/employee trope, which I'd just experienced in two other recent Christmas reads. The "solution" (her quitting) was what I expected. Not total "instalove" but still pretty quick, "in love" after a few weeks. The seems-to-be-standard "one year later" epilogue ... in which they have gotten married (recent/honeymoon mention). At least no baby in this epilogue, but the sick sister has miraculously recovered. A merry Christmas HEA ...