Grace needs to start afresh in her small hometown. While she is happy to be back in the mountains, the efforts of her hapless family to help her settle in lead to her running zig-zag to avoid further disasters. Being scrutinized by the townsfolk doesn’t help. Still, Grace sets to work to establish her own accounting business with a determination that she thought was long gone.

She counts herself lucky when she got her first client—only to find it is her high school crush Lyle. He’s grown into a literal lumberjack and is more attractive than ever. But he is as grumpy as they get—and yet, Grace can't deny the pull she feels towards him.

Lyle hates Christmas. And it shows. So he needed help keeping his Christmas tree farm afloat. The accountant turns out to be a wonderfully quiet, gorgeous woman—who loves everything Christmas. Still, Lyle can't help but feel a spark of attraction for her. An attraction that he has no intention of owning up to.

This is a heartwarming, small-town romance novella with a heroine who's determined to make her dreams come true, a grumpy mountain man who’s doing his best to keep her at arm’s length, and a nettlesome audience of townspeople buzzing with Christmas cheer, or in Lyle’s case: Christmas frowning.

Christmas With Her Mountain Man hasverylittle drama and some nice steam. It is the first book in Ella Braeme’s new Elken Grove series. HEA, no cheating, standalone.