
Some things are worth risking the naughty list.
Jonah Newfeld is not someone men fall for at a glance. They have to get to know him first. So when he meets the perfect man, he knows he needs to play the long game.
Nathan Sharp is the newest guy on the customer service floor. He’s clever, kind, blessedly single, and volunteers weekends at a local animal shelter. Jonah wants to raise babies with him. But when Nathan’s sister starts trying to fix him up with her veterinarian, Jonah’s plan is put into jeopardy.
Jonah needs the perfect plan if he wants to win over the man of his dreams. But a terrible plan will have to do, and more than a little help from his friends. If Jonah can pull it off and manage to get the boy, it’ll be more than worth being put on Santa’s naughty list for good.

Chapter 1“Why don’t you just ask him out?” I ignored Reed, instead, focusing on the far wall with its pale gray paint and friendly, white-faced clock. The steady tick of its hands was the life-preserver that kept me afloat as the chaos of the customer service floor bobbed around me. “He might say yes.” Asking Nathan Sharp out on a date was not an option. I was not someone you fell for at a glance. I was the guy you had to get to know first. But that was okay because I had a plan. If orchestrating bumping into Nathan was an art form, I was well on my way to becoming one of the great masters. The Claude Monet of stories the two of us would tell our children. Someday my current work—Your car in the shop? Want me to drop you home?—would hang in the Louvre. I just had to get the timing righ
