Dear Santa, Send Coffee (and a Carpenter): A Christmas in Merryberry Novella

Christmas in Merryberry comes with cocoa, carols, and one very distracting carpenter.

Dr. Lucy Monroe has a plan: spend six months working in the quirky little town of Merryberry, pay off her med school loans, and head straight back to city life where she belongs.
No roots. No attachments. Definitely no quiet, broad-shouldered carpenters with devastating forearms.

Enter Caleb Morris: the town’s steady-as-oak carpenter who can fix anything—except his relationship with his father, or the scar left when his mom walked out years ago. The last thing he wants is to fall for someone temporary. Especially someone who makes his carefully ordered life tilt with every smile.

Between gingerbread house disasters, Christmas quizzes gone awry, and one very nosy town, Lucy and Caleb keep getting thrown together under the twinkle lights. What starts as banter and community cocoa turns into something dangerously close to real feelings.

And when Christmas brings them face-to-face with their fears—and what they stand to lose—Lucy and Caleb must decide if a short-term contract can turn into a forever kind of love.

Full of humor, heart, and holiday sparkle,Dear Santa, Send Coffee (and a Carpenter) is the first cozy novella in the Christmas in Merryberry series—perfect for fans of witty banter, small-town meddling, and holiday romances you can devour in a single snowy evening, curled up with cocoa and a little festive swoon.