Snow and Spiteful

1,263 characters — well within the 50–4,000 limit. Here's your D2D description, ready to paste:She came to Tinsel Creek to find a story. She didn't plan on becoming one.Marigold Calloway is a features journalist with twelve days, one small Vermont town, and a very specific assignment: unmask J.B., the anonymous newsletter writer whose half-million subscribers have made him the most-read voice in the northeast. The postmark is always Tinsel Creek. The deadline is Christmas Eve.Jonah Beckett is a literary novelist in self-imposed exile, a man who came to Tinsel Creek three years ago to be alone and has stayed because alone, quietly, works. He has no interest in the holidays, in community, or in the cheerful journalist who has claimed his table at the only coffee shop in town.He thinks she's writing a harmless holiday puff piece. She thinks he's the innkeeper's grumpy nephew. They are both wrong about the most important thing.What follows is twelve days of argument, a town aggressively invested in everyone's business, one spectacular snowstorm, and a slow, stubborn fall between two people who are honest with each other about everything — except the one secret that could end it all.Snow and Spite is a small-town Christmas romance with a slow burn, a mistaken identity, a forbidden love at its core, and a guaranteed happy ending.