"For everyone who's ever believed in the magic of Christmas... or wanted their hallmark movies to be a little spicier."   

Jennifer Chipman definitely delivered her dedication in this feel good, holiday romance! This book has me wanting to make SANTA my book boyfriend! LOL... well, actually more so his son Teddy, but he'll inherit the mantle one day, so I'd say that counts. 

Our FMC, Ivy Winters, lost her parents at a young age and was in the foster system during her formative years when the magic of Christmas should have been showered on her. Instead, she never truly celebrated Christmas traditions, such as decorating a tree, making Christmas cookies, building gingerbread houses, hanging stockings, or exchanging gifts.  To fill the Santa sized hole in her belly (see what I did there?) she began working at Santa's Christmas Land, an amusement park in Florida where Christmas is celebrated 365 days a year!  She's now the "head elf" or manager of the park.

I immediately related with Ivy, as she is introduced to us...
"I'd worked my way up to being manager... though sometimes, it felt like it was hard for people to take me seriously, given that I was a whopping 5 foot 2 inches (that's me) and wear a green velvet dress everyday (not me, but I love green!) and had a management degree from the University of Central Florida. "

Enter Theodore Clausen (Teddy CLAUSE).  He's climbed the ladder within his family's business, which includes Santa's Christmas Land, and has arrived to check out the park and develop proposals for future developments.  Upon meeting Ivy, he senses some... magic? and becomes enamored.  After discovering Ivy has never truly enjoyed the magic of Christmas herself, he invites her to come home with him for the holidays... to the NORTH POLE!

"I'm not your boss, Ivy, " he said, furrowing his brow. Teddy stared at my bare legs, and his jaw tightened before he looked away. "It's important to me you know that."

Magic abounds, Ivy finds out she's the daughter of a run away elf, and that Teddy is the REAL SANTA'S son! The story progresses with many sweet moments, is relatively angst free (it's truly a feel good story) AND includes some of my favorite tropes:
one bed, secret identities, fated mates, cinnamon roll MMC, a Christmas to-do bucket list, found family.

While it is a feel good story, I found it very entertaining, funny, and not too sappy.

"Oh. God. there was only one bed? I groaned. 'You've got to be kidding me.'  What sore of H a l l mark movie did I wake up in the middle of?"

Teddy: "Even if my dad was the reason I brought you here?"
Ivy: "You mean when you knocked me out, k!d n a p p e d me, and effectively trapped me in the North Pole with you and only one bed?"

SPICE: 3-3.5 chili peppers. 
This is a story I can see myself rereading again and again during the holidays each year.