🎄Present Tense - Smutmas Signing Exclusive!🎁

✨Expanded bonus version, with plaid color edges and color interior!✨
Best Friend's Brother, Childhood Friends, Single Mom, Holiday, Long Distance, Fast Burn

How do you have a hot holiday one-night stand with someone who once helped you build a snow fort and taught you how to cannonball the correct way?

Short answer? You don’t.

You fall into something messy, intense, blissful and completely unplanned. Especially when it’s Liam, the sweet, steady boy from next door who used to tag along with me and his sister every summer and now looks like a J. Crew ad with a secret dirty streak and a fondness for cats in sweaters. That plaid does something really naughty to my brain, and I think the cats are judging me.

We agreed this would be a two-week fling, just a spark to warm up a cold December. But letting go isn’t as simple as it should be. He makes me remember the girl I used to be… before I became a full-time warrior mom and part-time fixer of everyone else's mess.

And now I’m wondering if I can be that girl again, with him.

🎄 Present Tense is a swoony, emotional holiday romcom featuring steamy best friend’s brother vibes, found family, flirty banter, judgmental cats, and a second chance at first love that neither of us saw coming. A holiday, second chance at first love.