A sweet small-town Christmas love story where found family becomes forever.

Marley Preston had spent eight months learning how to survive loss.

As a home health nurse specializing in dementia care, she understood exactly what loving someone with the disease demanded. She’d watched her mother disappear piece by painful piece—and when a Christmas-week assignment brought her to Hope Hollow, Tennessee, she promised herself it would be simple. One week of work. No attachments. Then gone.

But nothing about Rourke Carter was simple.

The quiet small-town mechanic had been caring for his father alone, carrying a weight that was slowly breaking him. When Rourke’s friends secretly hired Marley as a Christmas gift, she stepped into a life that looked nothing like a temporary assignment—a father and son clinging to each other through an impossible illness, a town that welcomed her like family, and a man whose steady devotion made her want things she’d sworn she was done hoping for.

Rourke hadn’t let anyone close since his mother abandoned them years ago. Now dementia was stealing his father away, and the last thing he wanted was help—or the nurse who made him feel seen, understood, and dangerously hopeful.

They only have seven days.

Seven days of Christmas traditions and quiet moments.
Seven days of stolen glances, shared grief, and unexpected laughter.
Seven days for two broken hearts to learn that loving someone always carries risk—but running from love guarantees regret.

Tropes:

🎄 Small-Town Christmas Romance
🏡 Found Family Romance
🩺 Caregiver Romance
💔 Grief and Healing Love Story
⏳ Limited-Time / Short-Term Romance
🤍 Sweet and Clean Romance
🔧 Blue-Collar Hero (Small-Town Mechanic)
❄️ Holiday Comfort Read

Holidays with the Mechanic is a sweet, small-town Christmas romance with a found family theme. It has no profanity or violence, and romance doesn't go beyond kissing. If you like your romances on the sweet, heartwarming side, you'll love the entire Hope Hollow Christmas series.