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The Christmas Compromise
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The Christmas Compromise
Book 3 of the Christmas Mountain series
236 pages · First published 2019
Two people enter the Christmas season with competing plans and discover that reaching the holiday peacefully will require compromise neither finds particularly natural. Family gatherings and seasonal obligations keep placing them together while their disagreements reveal an attraction beneath the friction. What begins as a practical truce becomes emotionally complicated once each starts imagining a future beyond December. Susan Hatler’s sweet holiday romance uses festive conflict, compromise, and clean romantic comedy to show how meeting halfway can change much more than Christmas plans.
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Past family heartbreak and blame; family conflict; business/workplace tension; emotional distress; second-chance themes; sweet romantic attraction.
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