Overview

A Christmas Grumpy/sunshine, urban fantasy romance with a warm, emotional core and an emphasis on found family and workplace reform.

Ingrid North has been Krampus for five hundred winters: stern, efficient, and alone. Her office is a basement of chains, binders and hard choices—until a Department of Supernatural Rights lawyer shows up asking questions. Gabriella Wright is burned out, fallen, and stubbornly determined to do the right thing. When she digs into Yuletide Inc., she finds that Ingrid’s brutal job hides surprising tenderness and a radically different method that actually teaches children to be better.

As Gabriella gathers evidence to stop decades of corporate neglect, she and Ingrid are forced into late‑night strategy sessions, field raids across the globe, and an accidental intimacy that softens their edges. Yuletide’s executives press every legal lever they have; Santa’s board threatens automation. With the future of Christmas—and Ingrid’s life—at stake, Gabriella must decide whether justice alone is enough or whether anchoring someone in love might be the revolution that saves them all.