When Emily Carter returns to Willow Creek for the holidays, she expects snow, gingerbread contests, and small-town gossip—not Lucas Hale, her childhood best friend and the boy she once loved. Lucas is everything she remembers—steady, kind, and still impossibly handsome—but the walls Emily built around her heart are hard to break. As they're thrown together for the town's Winter Market preparations, their playful rivalry rekindles something deeper. Between snowed-in nights by the fire, laughter-filled gingerbread contests, and a magical winter ball, Emily begins to wonder if coming home was fate's way of giving her a second chance. But when old fears resurface and family expectations threaten to pull her away again, Emily must decide if she's ready to stop running—and risk everything for the love she's never forgotten. A heartwarming friends-to-lovers romance full of snowflakes, slow-burn chemistry, and small-town holiday magic, A Winter's Kiss will leave you believing in second chances and happily-ever-afters.