Title: MistleFoe
A Frenemies to Lovers MM Holiday Romance
Author: Cambria Hebert
Genre: MM Romance
Tropes: Frenemies to Lovers/Small Town
Holiday Romance/Forced Proximity/Opposites Attract
Release Date: December 1, 2025
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‘Tis the season for twinkling lights, cookies, joy, and a little sprinkle of mom guilt on the side. Did I say little? I mean an entire sleigh full. Which is exactly why I’m on my way home to Winterbury for the holidays, something my parents have been pleading for since I left the small-town life for a view of the city nearly ten years ago.
It’s not that I don’t come home to visit. I do.
Just not at Christmas.
The last time I was there, I got wrapped up in the romantasy of the town’s mistletoe legend, and it ruined my entire life. Okay, maybe not my entire life, but it did turn my best friend into my biggest enemy.
And maybe gave me a raging case of mistletoe PTSD.
Don’t laugh. It’s a thing.
Which is exactly why I’m going to do everything possible to avoid the raising of the mistletoe, Archer Hodge, and his Christmas tree farm. I’m just going to help my father out with the family animal clinic and mind my own business.
So of course Archer walks right into the clinic and nearly runs me over with his clompy boots, pine-scented flannel, and trademark scowl. Turns out, even after ten years, he still plucks every last nerve in my body. It doesn’t matter that he looks better than I remember and he’s cradling a beautiful dog who steals my heart.
Archer is my sworn frenemy, and no amount of forced proximity, small-town tradition, or mistletoe magic will ever change that.
Or so I thought…
REVIEW
Reviewer: Christi
Rating: 5 Groupie Stars
Cambria Hebert is one of my one-click authors. I love everything she writes, but her M/M books always end up holding a special place on my shelves. MistleFoe is not only worth the one-click, but it totally shows why she is one of my go-to authors.
I borrowed a bit from her author's note to share how I feel about this book using her own goals:
1. Give it a plot but make it fluffy and feel-good. (She 100% succeeded! Hot chocolate, cold hands, and powder-sugary sweet.)
2. Making it romantic but not cheesy. (As someone who watches Hallmark movies and comments about how they can be cheesy and clichéd- Hebert managed to pull this one off! Even with a small town Christmas tree farmer as one of the main characters!)
3. Moving the story along simply but in an entertaining way. (I was looking up gingerbread recipes by the end of the book, so, not only successful, but inspirational. And a dog is always a win! Lol)
This was a sweet Christmas story and a fairly quick read. If you like the small-town sweet romances, queer awakening romances, or even just enemies to lovers banter, Toby and Archer will give you what you are looking for. 5 star read for me.
Cambria Hebert is a bestselling novelist of more than fifty titles. She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair.
Besides writing, Cambria loves a pumpkin spice latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching K drama until her eyes won’t stay open. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chihuahuas (the real bosses of the house).
Cambria has written in many genres, including new adult, sports romance, male/male romance, sci-fi, thriller, suspense, contemporary romance, and young adult. Many of her titles have been translated into foreign languages and have been the recipients of multiple awards.
Awards Cambria has received include:
Author of the Year 2016 (UtopiaCon2016)
The Hashtag Series: Best Contemporary Series of 2015 (UtopiaCon 2015)
#Nerd: Best Contemporary Book Cover of 2015 (UtopiaCon 2015)
Romeo from the Hashtag Series: Best Contemporary Lead (UtopiaCon 2015)
#Nerd: Top 50 Summer Reads (Buzzfeed.com 2015)
The Hashtag Series: Best Contemporary Series of 2016 (UtopiaCon 2016)
#NERD Book Trailer: Best Book Trailer of 2016 (UtopiaCon 2016)
#Nerd Book Trailer: Top 50 Most Cinematic Book Trailers of All Time (film-14.com)
#Nerd: Book Most Wanted to be Adapted to Screen: (2018)
Amnesia: Mystery Book of the Year (2018)
Cambria Hebert owns and operates Cambria Hebert Books, LLC.
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