Snow and Silver

Twelve days before Christmas, Killian Doyle walks into Lena Marchetti's chocolate shop and tells her he owns the building. He plans to sell it. There's one problem: his grandmother's estate requires the property to pass to an heir who is married by the end of the year, and Killian hasn't been married a day in his life. Lena has a shop, a rent she can't afford, and a mother's recipe book she can't bring herself to open. The agreement is simple. Eleven days. One wedding. One year, maybe. Then the building goes back to him and the shop goes back to her. They don't account for the cocoa rush. The tree lighting. The night the power goes out. The priest they chose in a hurry, who appears at the cold storeroom door on Christmas Eve and tells them he doesn't do refunds. Eleven days is enough time to fall in love. It's barely enough to say so.