Description:
1st place winner of the 30th annual Writer's Digest Awards.
The only case they haven't cracked is how to be together.
Not on Officer Maggie Kyle's Christmas bingo card:
- A homemade bomb in a bus station locker.
- A child, the prime suspect in the bombing.
- Her partner of ten years abandoning her to solve the case on her own.
Max St. James might be the worst cop in the world-or at least in Toronto:
- He fell in love with his partner.
- He's the reason she never became a detective.
- He doesn't much care who planted the bomb.
The IED's blast ignites years of tension, sending Maggie and Max careening in opposite directions-but opposites still attract. Can they find a way to come together to solve the case before another bomb goes off? And will it mean another ten years sacrificing the future they want for the partnership they already have?
Brief description: Rose Prendeville is a multi-award winning author, most recently earning the 2026 Gold Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for her contemporary romance Grace on the Rocks. A librarian from Middle Tennessee, with a passion for stories about found families and flawed people doing their best, she lives with her husband, the world's cutest dog, and a garden full of bees, delighting in books with happy endings because she firmly believes in their ability to brighten the world.