For a Christmas read, this book wasn't as light-hearted as I expected it to be. Christmas was prominent only in the first part of the book actually. The rest was low-grade erotica and a lot of angst. 
 In Cold Feet at Christmas, a bride named Leah Harvey finds her wedding going sour when she finds her soon-to-be husband up a bridesmaid's skirt just hours before the ceremony. She flees in distress and is stranded in the snowy wilderness, but fortunately manages to stagger to the nearest cottage where she promptly collapses into the arms of its inhabitant - a man so handsome she thinks she must have died and gone to heaven. Meanwhile, Rob Cavelli can't believe the beauty of the woman on his front porch. He decides to take her in for Christmas... 
 Let me summarise the book for you in a few phases. 
 1. The instalust phase. 
 Sadly this book had a very bad case of instalust. And by a very bad case I mean a really bad case. The MCs were already going on and on about how smoking the other was in the very first chapter. There's even the telltale spark of electricity written in and everything. This continues for a few chapters, with many cliche descriptions like "the tension in the room ratcheted up a notch" and so on. I would advise skimming through it. 
 2. The sex-like-rabbits phase. 
 Where the MCs finally hook up, and of course once they do, they never get out of bed. The sex scenes weren't poorly written, but not particularly heat-inducing either. I generally enjoy a well-written explicit scene but this one didn't make the cut. 
 3. The we-can-only-be-friends phase. 
 Where Rob tells Leah that he's not looking for a long-term relationship, and we get a sense of his traumatic past. Where Leah still lusts after him, of course, but does her best to quell it. 
 4. The fighting-hard-against-mutual-attraction phase. 
 Both characters are in Chicago at this point. Rob asked Leah to come with him to his home city thinking he could help her start over. They have trouble denying the attraction between them. Rob tries his best to push Leah away by being cold and rude towards her - typical douche behavior. Where the elephant in the room - Rob's obvious past trauma - is growing, and Leah tries to reach out as a friend to him, get him to open up, but is brutally ignored. And after a while she gives up and starts sorting out her life, and goes on a date. Then we see Rob being a creepy stalker and spying on them kissing, and at this point the book's angst level is agonisingly high. When Leah hears that Rob has a date the next night, she pretends to be a serving girl but finds out she can't tolerate looking at him like that. Rob, furious and aroused, comes after her and they have a night of explosive and brutal sex. 
 5. The oh-fuck-I'm-pregnant phase 
 During that night they both reveal their pasts to each other and find out they are both carrying around huge guilt. They finally establish that they can only be just friends and Leah leaves the next morning for her new apartment in the city instead of staying in Cavelli Tower. Some time passes. Leah finds out she is pregnant, at the same time that she gets a deportation notice informing her that she has to leave the US in twenty-eight days. 
 6. The where-has-she-gone phase 
 Where Leah disappears without a trace and Rob goes frantic trying to find her. Of course he only realises his feelings for her now in her absence, after months of her presence. He sinks into depression and drinking and wastes away his life, until he's snapped out of it by his family and told that she's in London. He tracks her there. 
 7. The HEA + epilogue phase 
 Where they are reunited and confess their love for each other, Rob is overjoyed to find out he will be a father, and there is a cheesy epilogue. 
 Nothing much to do with Christmas at all, like I mentioned earlier. The book was nothing special either, but fortunately the characters were interesting enough for me not to give up reading. Leah had a sort of innate attractiveness to her - I liked her blunt humor and her peculiar determination and her always-buoyant spirit. Rob was like a watered-down version of a typical alpha billionaire male - he didn't measure up to my standards at all. I can't pinpoint what exactly it is about him that threw me off, but he definitely can't compare to other males in similar tropes I've read. He has no seductive lines, no I-own-the-world air, no air of coolness and mystery. So he seems like an ordinary man playing the billionaire role; some readers might prefer that but I don't. 
 This book completely fell short of my expectations in some aspects. I expected a light winter read but got light erotica and tons of angst. However, I will admit that it's quite well-written and I appreciated the dose of humor/chick lit thrown in with Leah's character. Honestly, I just lived for her dialogue and her scenes.