Most of the year Kayla Green can keep herself happily insulated with the work she loves but when the Christmas holidays come nothing can keep her loneliness at bay. When she gets the opportunity of working a challenging account tucked away from the reek of Christmas in New York City she jumps at the chance. She counts on her well-honed focus to keep her from jumping the all-too-attractive man who is hiring the company to market his ski resort

Jackson O'Neil is a desperate man. He is fighting for the survival of his family business with very few allies. The people he loves most in the world would like nothing more than to keep Snow Crystal Resort as it has always been, maple cookies and all but without an infusion of marketing genius leading to new guests it is doomed for failure. The representative of a Manhattan firm with her experience and savvy is his best hope, if only she can win his family over, and if only he can keep his own desires in check and keep his focus targeted away from the very attractive Kayla Green.

With SLEIGH BELLS IN THE SNOW, Sarah Morgan is launching a wonderful new contemporary romance series. I seldom gravitate toward business-focused leading ladies in a romance novel, because often they are portrayed with a hard, humorless edge I find off-putting. With Kayla Green however Morgan has given us a character who is both believable in a successful career yet with a sense of humor and hidden vulnerabilities that draw any reader in. She has also created a fantasy-flavored maple-sweet setting rooted deeply in the Vermont soil with Snow Crystal and the O'Neil family. By the time I was midway through SLEIGH BELLS IN THE SNOW not only was I a little in love with Kayla and Jackson but with Walter, Alice, Elizabeth and the rest of the family and family-by-choice surrounding them. Without removing prime focus from Kayla and Jackson's story, Sarah Morgan has laid a strong and intriguing foundation for the other books in the O'Neil Brothers series, and they can't be published fast enough for me. I am eagerly looking forward to my next journey to Vermont, as guided by Sarah Morgan.