Miss You Like Christmas — Christina R. Mitchell

The only thing Gabriel Tilki wants for Christmas is for it to be over. What used to be the security guard's favorite time of year now just makes his heart ache. But a winter storm and a chance encounter with a charming, disheveled, mental health influencer might just be what he needs to get his Christmas back, and maybe in return, he can give her the Christmas she's never had.  22,000 words | interracial romance | forty-somethings | stranded | emotional scars/grief | just one bed | spicy | terrible-just awful-puns TW: Parental Loss