Falon Ballard (Right on Cue; Just My Type) draws on her experience as a romance author to create a swoon-worthy literary love story between two romance writers. Jessica Carrington and Nick Matthews met at a creative writing workshop, sparking their flame through critiquing each other's work. They began their careers as authors and even sold their first books to the same publisher. Their love story was perfect enough to be a romance novel--until five years ago, when Nick broke up with Jess two weeks after Christmas.
On top of tainting her favorite holiday, Nick became Jess's professional rival: his romance novels, which don't have happy endings, are all bestsellers, while Jess's happily-ever-after rom-coms don't earn enough for her to quit her day job. Forced together at their publisher's annual holiday ball at an inn in upstate New York, tension between the two reignites their creative and romantic sparks. Jess's night snowballs from bad to worse when the inn's clerk tells her they don't have a room for her and that they're all snowed in for the night.
With no other options, Jess accepts Nick's offer to stay in his room, "which, of course, happens to have only one bed." With the exes stuck in an idyllic inn, the scene is set for Ballard's cozy romance. No strangers to quotable witty banter and steamy sexual tension, Jess and Nick channel their undeniable chemistry into their work and consider what would happen if their fiction were to become fact. All I Want Is You is a festive, enemies-to-lovers romance that brims with Christmas cheer and second chances. --Clara Newton, freelance reviewer