One viral video. Six million views. And absolutely no reasonable explanation for why Lucy Walsh pepper-sprayed Santa.
Lucy can spin any scandal—until she becomes one. After she’s caught on camera shrieking “Ho-ho-no, you don’t!” while taking down a mall Santa, the cynical PR executive receives an ultimatum: save a struggling small-town children’s charity or face potential charges and kiss her career goodbye.
The catch? The charity’s infuriatingly cheerful director, Nick St. Clair, is the grandson of the Santa she pepper-sprayed.
Nick thinks Lucy is a spin doctor who’s forgotten how to tell the truth. Lucy thinks Nick is a walking Hallmark card about to bankrupt his beloved foundation with hope and hot chocolate. Neither expects Lucy’s brutally honest letter to Santa to surface—or for Nick to start granting her wishes one by one.
Soon Lucy is fulfilling children’s Christmas requests, teaching reindeer safety to kindergartners, and accidentally starting a tinsel fire. Worse, the maddeningly merry man behind it all keeps slipping past her defenses.
But with the foundation in crisis and Lucy’s old life calling her back, she must choose between the career she fought to build and a future she never dared to wish for.
THE NICE LIST is BRIDGET JONES meets ELF, a holly-jolly romance packed with enemies-to-lovers sparks, small-town Christmas chaos, and one hilariously messy road to happily ever after.
