Christmas With a Crank

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A second chance with your first crush.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Doesn't happen often.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For Liam Fisher that first crush was his next door neighbor Olive Witherby.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Childhood was lazy summers treehouse stargazing and endless games of hide and seek at Pine Creek the Christmas tree farm that's been in Liam's family for generations.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Liam moves away he and Olive say goodbye the only way they know how-with a fumbling first kiss neither of them will ever forget.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even though twelve-year olds' promises of keeping in touch feel eternal time and distance eventually make Olive and Liam practically strangers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Twenty years later Liam's parents announce they're retiring and selling the tree farm.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Twenty years later Pine Creek is the last place grown-up Liam wants to be. Inherit this legacy? Not on your life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And twenty years later grown-up Olive is stuck.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her work life is a lot like her love life-floundering. After a humiliating business failure loads of debt and one too many laughable first dates she's in no hurry to put herself out there again in business or in romance.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Olive is hired by Liam's parents to rekindle the lost magic of the farm one final time before it's sold she sets out to make this the last best Pine Creek Christmas for the town </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>for a very cranky not-so-talkative surprisingly attractive Liam.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Part of her mission? Convince the crank to fall in love with Christmas.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The other part? Not fall head over heels in the process.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Christmas With a Crank </em>is a low spice grumpy/sunshine childhood crush opposites attract romance with plenty of sizzle but none of the steam.</strong></p></strong></p><p><strong><span>2025 IngramSpark® Editorial Selection - Romance</span></strong></p>