Here is the seventh novel in the new multi-author series (Christmas Falls): this is Hayden Hall's "No Elfing Way."
["I'm your cookie-cutter villain...
Or that's the role Christmas Falls has given me.
I'm here to help my grandfather fulfill the crazy amount of orders his toy shop is getting. The company I work for would love to take it off his hands. And I want to see Grandpa Nicholas enjoy a few years without having to work all day long.
When I arrive in Christmas Falls, not only is Gramps adamant about keeping the toy shop, but he has already hired an assistant enabler who can't stand the sight of me. Ezra, the real world Santa's Elf, an unbearable bubble of Christmas tradition, a walking, talking cinnamon roll, is as delusional as Grandpa Nick himself.
Suddenly, I'm the villain of this Christmas story. Ezra challenges every smart decision I make and thinks I'm here to steal Christmas from the town's kids.
Convincing Grandpa to sell the shop and fighting Ezra at every turn is more than one guy can do alone. But maybe I don't have to. A temporary truce with Ezra quickly turns into a passionate and disastrous wildfire that will melt this winter's snowfall if we don't resist the temptation.
We come from different I have a life waiting for me in New York and Ezra lives and breathes small town charms. We are destined to fall apart, but that's not stopping me from dreaming up ways to keep Ezra with me for another minute. Or hour. Or night."]
Sooooo here for the theory/fact that Grandpa Nicholas is Santa. Yes. Please. Adds even more of that Hallmark Christmas magic to Christmas Falls.
Also, James doesn't help himself much from not being seen as the "villain." He's a little Scrooge-like with his pessimism, his city-boy lack-of-charm, his lost innocence (childhood trauma), and his hatred of Christmas (see: childhood trauma). But, like any good Christmas story, he sees the error of his ways by the end of the novel, falls in love, and lives happy ever after. :D
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