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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Masala and Mistletoe: A Steamy Holiday Enemies-to-Lovers Romance with a Forced Proximity Twist

Masala and Mistletoe: A Steamy Holiday Enemies-to-Lovers Romance with a Forced Proximity Twist

Coelho, Marcos

Paperback

Romance

ISBN13: 9798187768721
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Spending Christmas alone in a snowbound Vermont inn wasn't exactly the holiday miracle I'd been praying for.

Then the last room went to him.

Rohan Kapoor is a Michelin-trained chef with an ego the size of his spice rack and a smile that makes me forget he just stole my reservation. He's arrogant, infuriating, and so annoyingly gorgeous it should be illegal. Worse, he's the culinary world's golden boy, and I'm the food blogger who panned his restaurant six months ago. He hasn't forgotten. Neither have I.

But when a blizzard traps us together in the inn's cozy kitchen with nothing but a mountain of holiday orders, a temperamental oven, and one very inconvenient bed back upstairs, ignoring each other stops being an option. Rohan challenges my every recipe. I question his every technique. We bicker over cinnamon ratios and clash over cardamom until the heat simmering between us has nothing to do with cooking and everything to do with the way his voice dips when he calls me by name. There's a reason they say keep your enemies close. I'm starting to think it's because nobody warns you what happens when they're close enough to kiss.

He's leaving for a dream job in London the moment the snow clears. I'm building the career that his bad review nearly destroyed. Walking away should be easy. Except the mistletoe keeps catching us at the worst possible moments, his grandmother's masala chai tastes like home in a way I'm afraid to admit, and somewhere between stolen glances across the stove and flour-dusted arguments that end way too close, this fake truce starts feeling dangerously real.

Rohan Kapoor is supposed to be the villain in my story. So why does my heart race every time he looks at me like I'm the only dish he wants to savor?

This Christmas, the kitchen isn't the only thing heating up. But when the snow melts and real life comes knocking, will what we've built survive outside the storm, or was our love always destined to burn out?

MASALA AND MISTLETOE is a steamy, laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers holiday romance packed with forced proximity, a grumpy hero with a heart of gold, mouthwatering Indian fusion cuisine, small-town Christmas magic, and a happily ever after that'll leave you craving seconds. Perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey's sizzling banter and cozy winter romcoms where the snow isn't the only thing falling.

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