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The Ex-Mas Effect

2026

Hers for the Holidays

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The story

Juno Gold has established a comfortable routine running an antique jewellery shop in a snowy resort town. That routine unravels when her former girlfriend, Maisie Armitage, opens a competing business across the street shortly before Christmas. Juno wants to believe that adulthood has equipped her to handle both the rivalry and the feelings she associates with Army. Repeated encounters suggest otherwise. Business competition keeps bringing them together, while attraction and old emotion make it difficult to maintain the distance Juno once promised herself. As the holiday approaches, she must confront the possibility that their relationship has not remained safely in the past. Giving Army another chance would mean reconsidering more than the boundaries between neighbouring shops.

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Book details

First published
2026
Publisher
Self-published
Available editions
Ebook
Image credits
  • Cover supplied on Lily X’s official book page · Source