When Noelle Carter returns to her snow-covered hometown of Pinewood Falls for the holidays, she expects two quiet weeks of forced cheer, family traditions, and pretending she hasn’t outgrown the place she once ran from. What she doesn’t expect is Ethan Brooks—the man she loved, left, and never truly got over—still standing exactly where she broke him.Ethan has built his life around what stayed when Noelle didn’t. He runs his family’s Christmas tree farm, believes in routine, loyalty, and the kind of love that doesn’t walk away when things get hard. Every winter, Pinewood Falls glows with lights and nostalgia, and every winter, he reminds himself that some things are better left in the past. Especially her.Thrown together by small-town inevitability, holiday traditions, and wounds that never fully healed, Noelle and Ethan are forced to confront the truth they’ve both been avoiding: what they had was never finished, but was abandoned. As old secrets begin to surface and the reasons behind Noelle’s disappearance come into question, the line between resentment and desire blurs dangerously fast.But Pinewood Falls doesn’t just remember—it watches. Family expectations, unfinished business, and the arrival of someone from Noelle’s past threaten to shatter the fragile balance she and Ethan struggle to maintain. Every look lingers too long. Every conversation says more in silence than words ever could. And as Christmas draws closer, so does the moment neither of them can keep pretending they don’t still want the same thing.Set against twinkling lights, fresh snow, and traditions that refuse to let go, Under the Mistletoe We Broke is a slow-burn holiday romance filled with longing, emotional intensity, and second-chance love. It’s a story about timing, truth, and the risk of choosing love when it’s easier to walk away. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing about coming home isn’t the memories—it’s realizing they’re still alive.