..but you can't escape it--not even with a hot cowboy and a Christmas craft circle--in this lively and poignant romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Stacey Kennedy.

Everyone daydreams about a fresh start...but Willow Quinn is making it happen. She's left her life in Phoenix to open a bar in cowboy-country Montana with her two best friends. It's a chance to reboot in a new town with a new life--and leave behind the shadows of her past and heal. Hopefully.

All she wants to do is create an empowering space for women who need support. Snow and the holidays are on the way, so surely a craft circle is the perfect way to build community... Except who knew her plans would ruffle so many feathers.

Enter former bull rider Eli Cole. She's drawn to the green-eyed cowboy, his intensity and the electrical charge between them. (Even though he seems to have as many dark secrets as she does.) And when she and her bar, The Naked Moose, go viral for being interlopers, suddenly Willow's new life is on rocky ground.

But Eli has the perfect solution--give the fiercely single bar owner a fake relationship with a local. But while it might dim the negative spotlight and convince the town she really does fit in, it definitely won't protect her heart from the cowboy she can't resist...

From showing up to glowing up, the characters in Afterglow Books are on the path to leading their best lives and finding sizzling romance along the way. Don't miss any of these other fun titles...

The Naked Moose series by USA TODAY bestselling author Stacey Kennedy

The Devil in Blue Jeans

Lone Wolf in Lights