Gabe's thrilled when he's cast as The Nutcracker Prince- until he hears the rival ballet academy's also performing a nontraditional , and super-hot, super-talented Kit is dancing the same part. Gabe has to out-dance Kit. Kit has to out-dance Gabe. Each school has to out-perform the other in the city's annual Nutcracker Battle. When a life-saving run-in brings Gabe and Kit together, sparks fly between two teen dancers with so much in common. Their studios hate it. Their choreographers flip out. The alternative paper scoops it as a tale of starcrossed lovers, battling ballet studios, and dueling princes. But Gabe and Kit scheme out a solution just crazy enough that, with the help of their Claras, could end the town's Nutcracker Battle- for good. A super-fluffy Christmas story by internationally bestselling YA author Annabeth Chatwin, is a stand alone novella in .