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Big Santa by Kat Baxter Series: A Big Wood Christmas #1
on October 23, 2026
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MAVERICK
I don’t need a wife. I don’t even want one after my last disastrous marriage.
What I do need is a mother for my four-year-old son. Someone warm and dependable. Most of all, someone who’ll stay. Someone completely different than my ex-wife.
As a billionaire developer, I know how to make a deal. So I approach my next marriage as a business arrangement: marry me and help me raise my son until he turns eighteen. In return, she’ll never have to worry about money again. No love, no messy emotions, and no one gets hurt.
Then Noelle Hines rolls into Big Woods with sunshine in her smile and enough Christmas spirit to make the North Pole look underdecorated.
Suddenly, thirteen years feels like a very long time to keep my hands off my wife.NOELLE
My fresh start was supposed to involve leaving my tiny hometown and finally figuring out what I want.
It was not supposed to involve marrying a gorgeous, grumpy billionaire and becoming an instant mom to his adorable four-year-old. But Maverick Kane’s completely bonkers marriage contract comes with a home, a little boy who steals my heart, and a husband who looks unfairly good when he’s glaring at me.
The rules are simple:
Be a good mother.
Stay until his son turns eighteen.
...And absolutely, positively do not fall in love.
Except I’m falling for his son, for Big Woods, and for the life the three of us are building together.
And my big, grumpy husband? Well, he’s making that last rule almost impossible to keep…
Short, sweet and oh so sexy! The first book in the delightful multi-author Big Wood Christmas series is a marriage of convenience storyline delivered by Kat Baxter. Since the book is novella length, there isn’t nearly the relationship development that we would expect from a full length story, but the depth Baxter puts into each character is spot on. Shiloh will steal everyone’s heart, and Noelle and Maverick don’t do so bad themselves. Fun characters to get to know, an interesting take on a meet cute and lots of goodness to love!
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