Break the Ice

From digitally bestselling author Kristen Bailey comes a heartfelt and hilarious opposites attract holiday rom-com including a dog named Steve.

Warm, funny, and completely irresistible, this is the ULTIMATE festive rom-com: The Holiday meets When Harry Met Sally, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Sophie Kinsella.

Phoebe has twenty-four hours to deliver a rescue puppy to her sister’s family in Devon for Christmas morning. She has enthusiasm, a pink woolly hat, and a heart full of good intentions. What she does not have is a working car.


Her sister’s housesitter does. Joshua is a university mathematician who came to England to do serious academic work. And, if he’s honest, to put an ocean between himself and a heartbreak he hasn’t quite dealt with. He has an orange VW Beetle, a neatly labelled travel bin, and absolutely no desire to spend Christmas Eve in a blizzard with a stranger and her howling dog.


But Phoebe is very persuasive, and Steve the dog has already peed in the hallway.


What follows is gridlocked motorways, a dog who sees a car journey as trauma, and awkward conversation. Phoebe and Joshua have absolutely nothing in common. Until, after an impromptu snowball fight, a near-miss for Steve at Stonehenge, and a night snowed in together in a firelit shepherd’s hut, the frost between them begins to melt…


From a snowy Christmas in the UK to the magic of New York at NYE, Break the Ice is a warm, funny, properly swoony festive romcom packed with chaos and steamy romantic tension.

Tropes:

• Forced proximity
• Grumpy/sunshine slow burn with real emotional depth
• Sizzling chemistry and spice
• Big found-family festive warmth
• A deeply satisfying HEA
• And a resuce dog who absolutely steals the show