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Twenty-five days until Christmas. One chance to fall in love.

It’s December in Fountainbridge and 16-year-old Luis Winter is nursing a broken heart. It may have been a year since Thom dumped him, but Luis has vowed to stay far away from boys this holiday season. That is… until Dima Sharapnova moves in next door. Dima could not care less about Christmas; he’s far too busy agonising over his abrupt move to Fountainbridge and why his best friend is ghosting him after their fateful last night together.

In need of a distraction, Dima agrees to embark on a crash course of the town’s quirky holiday traditions with his charmingly chaotic new neighbour. From tentative friendship to something undeniably more, Luis and Dima collide in a blizzard of unspoken feelings that force them to confront their own attitudes towards sexuality, toxic masculinity, and what it means to be unashamedly yourself.