PHANTOM PEN
**MISTLETOE, MOONLIGHT & MY SECRET**
I have exactly one rule: never let anyone find out what I really am.
I broke it once, seven months ago, with a masked stranger at a gala I was never supposed to attend. One perfect night. Then I vanished before morning, certain I'd never see him again.
I was wrong.
A historic blizzard just blew him straight through my bakery door, and Julian Vance hasn't stopped staring at my stomach since he walked in. He doesn't recognize me as a rogue werewolf hiding from my own pack. He recognizes me as the woman who broke his heart, and the mother of the twins he doesn't even know exist yet.
He offers me a deal: pretend to be his fiancée for one week, survive his family's Christmas gauntlet, and he'll save my failing shop from closing forever. Fake ring, fake smiles, clean ending when the snow melts.
Except my wolf already knows what I refuse to admit.
He's my mate.
Now I'm hiding two secrets from a billionaire who's falling for me for real, a future mother-in-law doing pregnancy math out loud at her own dinner table, a gossip columnist with a pen already out, and a pack that will do anything to bring me home before he finds out what I am. Every stolen glance makes the lie harder to keep. Every truth I almost tell costs me a little more of the life I've spent three years hiding inside.
I have until Christmas morning to decide.
Tell him everything, and risk losing the one man who's ever looked at me like I was worth staying for.
Or keep lying, and lose myself instead.
A holiday romance where the biggest danger isn't the storm outside, it's the truth neither of them is ready to survive.
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