Kindergarten teacher Allie Hayes loves her life in the small town of Sterling Grove. She has a solid group of friends, her dream job, and easy access to the best cocoa shop a winter-loving girl could want. Allie is perfectly content being single, which comes in handy since she can't seem to sustain romantic interest in anyone for more than a few weeks. The only downside? Her favorite season is on its way, and while she's more than willing to be her friends' best source for wintertime date ideas, she'd love to experience those dates herself.


Architect Grant Covington is a meticulous planner, looking forward to the next phase of his life: marriage and family. Unfortunately, Grant's laser focus on his career hasn't left much room for a personal life, and his dating skills are rusty. So when Grant's lack of work/life balance puts his upcoming partnership bid at risk, he decides to accelerate his plan.


Grant offers himself as Allie's just-for-the-winter boyfriend. The mutually-beneficial relationship-with its predetermined expiration date-is a good fit for Allie's romantically-challenged attention span, and it provides Grant with a risk-free dating refresher course. The best part? Since they already know when they're breaking up, there will be no hard feelings or broken hearts. For these polar opposites, it's the perfect winter plan. What could possibly go wrong?

The Perfect Winter Plan is a frothy, low-spice rom-com that subtly combines and retools the opposites attract, relationship of convenience, and fake dating romance tropes into something new, fresh, and fun. A sweet, romantic story infused with warmth and laughter, The Perfect Winter Plan is the first novel in author Vanni Shaw's Cocoa & Froth Romance Collection.