When is a gnome not a gnome? When he’s an elf.

Santa Claus’s helper, omega elf, Sparkle, is tossed out of Santa’s Workshop and the North Pole. He shrugs off his job termination, until he discovers he’s a figurine and has to sparkle in someone’s garden, looking pretty. Talk about boring.

A dog tries to pee on him and the neighbor’s son pitches baseballs at his head. But that’s not the worst of it. He’s mistaken for a gnome. A garden gnome! His gnome friends in Christmas Village would chuckle at the mistaken identity.

The garden’s owner, an alpha, wants to donate him to a thrift shop, until Sparkle scents the guy and… he’s no longer a figurine. But how do you tell a wolf shifter his fated mate is one of Santa’s elves who lost his job because of a teensy-weensy mistake? And the clock is ticking down to a Christmas mating deadline!