I really enjoyed this book which I read for the Read Harder Challenge- a holiday romance that does not take place at Christmas. In this book Abby is the owner of a slowly failing coffee shop and cafe in a small Vermont town. In order to bring tourists to the town for the holiday, she agrees to head up a Hanukkah festival. She hopes to team up with other Jews in town but there is only one- the annoying customer who is constantly cheery every time he visits the cafe - he never stops being cheery despite Abby’s grumpy demeanor. When He offers to help Abby find vendors in NYC in return for her visiting the city and his parents for the holiday as his girlfriend (as his parents have been hoping he would come home with a Jewish girlfriend) she agrees. Over the 8 days of visiting vendors, meeting Seth’s friends, and hanging out with his parents, Abby slowly falls for Seth as her connection to the Jewish community of her birth also grows. I really liked this book which was not so open door and flipped the script on grumpy vs sweet - the friends group was fun, the parents were humorous, and the depiction  of how Judaism and Hanukah  survives and thrives despite being the ubiquity of Christmas was really well done.