A Miracle for Christmas — LeAnne Bristow

A Miracle for Christmas is Book 1 in the Christmas Wedding series and part of the 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas - a 2018 clean romance anthology from some of your favorite Harlequin Heartwarming romance authors. 

Jaycee Garland was too tall, too fast, too strong, and too independent to fit in with the girls. So she does her own thing. Whether it is pushing her students to think outside the box in history class, her players on the basketball court, or herself as a volunteer with Search and Rescue, she encourages everyone to blaze their own path. Too bad she can't convince her best friend to follow his dream instead of being bullied by his father.

When an injury ended Tyler Gibson's hockey career, cooking was the only thing that kept him focused and gave him a new purpose. As both the culinary arts teacher and the high school hockey coach, he's finally found a way to feed both of his passions. With two state titles under his coaching belt, Tyler is pressured to break into college coaching. If he can't make it to the National Hockey League as a player, he'll do it as a coach and finally prove to his father that he's not worthless. But that would mean leaving Christmas Town behind…and his best friend, Jaycee.

When Jaycee is asked to be a bridesmaid in the Christmas Eve wedding, she has to pull off the biggest transformation in history. Will turning this tomboy into a lady be the push that Tyler needs to see her as more than a friend? Will catering the wedding help Tyler admit what he really wants? It'll take more than luck for things to work out between these two, but Christmas Town always has a miracle or two in store for people with the courage to believe.