🎄 From Castle Bakeries to Haunted Estates: Three December Releases Where Women Risk Everything ✨

To view these books on Amazon, click the book titles.” Are you new here? Here’s the explainer.As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.Royal Icing👑 Author: Madison Score🎉 NEW RELEASERomantic ComedyTen days. Two life-changing projects. One royal mess.Trapped by an ironclad noncompete in a Manhattan bakery where she’s spending her December doing all the work for none of the credit, Emma Clark is saving every penny. 💰 She’s going to open her own place and make a better life for her and her mom, who is struggling after a health crisis. The light at the end of the tunnel is still years down the road when a life-changing holiday opportunity falls into her lap.Before she can say “Yule log,” Emma’s slinging croissants in a snow globe of a European castle and masterminding the greatest dessert the kingdom has ever seen. 🏰 If she impresses the impossible-to-please queen, the money will speed up her timeline by a full two years. It’ll be smooth sailing as long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, like falling for the devastatingly handsome Prince Leo, who spends his days ignoring royal protocol and getting his hands dirty outside the castle walls.Leo isn’t looking for a diversion, not even a gorgeous sugar-dusted one. 🥐 He’s laser-focused on building a new women’s shelter when Emma stumbles into his life just in time to save it. Their connection is instant, undeniable…and so problematic.The queen has one rule: no dating Americans. 🚫It should be an easy one to follow. 💕 After all, they don’t even live on the same continent. It’s not like they’re going to knowingly sabotage their own lives and careers just to make out under the mistletoe. Right?Madison Score writes romantic comedies that blend fairy tale tropes with contemporary realism, creating stories where ordinary women find themselves in extraordinary situations—usually involving royalty, fake relationships, or contracts that seemed like good ideas at the time. ✨ Her novels have attracted readers who want their rom-coms sweet, steamy, and infused with holiday magic, featuring heroines who are competent professionals falling for men who respect their ambitions.What makes this special: The setup is pure wish fulfillment—struggling baker Emma gets whisked away to a European castle to create desserts for royalty, with a life-changing payday if she succeeds. 🎂 The noncompete clause trapping Emma in a Manhattan bakery where she does “all the work for none of the credit” immediately establishes the injustice she’s escaping—she’s talented and hardworking but legally prevented from opening her own place, making the castle gig not just opportunity but liberation. The “impossible-to-please queen” creates high stakes beyond romance: Emma must nail this job to speed up her timeline by two years, making every dessert decision crucial to her and her mom’s future. 👸 Prince Leo being devoted to building a women’s shelter rather than attending royal functions subverts the typical playboy prince—he’s got his hands dirty with meaningful work, making him worthy of Emma’s attention. The instant connection being “so problematic” is understatement: the queen’s “no dating Americans” rule means any relationship between Emma and Leo could cost her the job, the money, and the future she’s desperately trying to build. 🇺🇸 Score’s “snow globe of a European castle” description captures the fairy tale aesthetic while the women’s shelter subplot grounds the story in real-world issues. The “They don’t even live on the same continent” obstacle feels insurmountable until you remember this is rom-com and love conquers geography. 🌍 The “knowingly sabotage their own lives and careers just to make out under the mistletoe” is exactly what they’re going to do, and watching them justify it will be delicious. If you’ve loved Christina Lauren’s holiday romances, Jasmine Guillory’s contemporary rom-coms with career-driven heroines, or any Hallmark movie where the baker falls for the prince, Score delivers similar swoony satisfaction with more heat. This is perfect holiday escapism for anyone who’s ever fantasized about leaving their terrible job for a European castle and a devastatingly handsome prince who respects their professional ambitions.Holiday Unscripted🎄 Author: Natasha Madison🎉 NEW RELEASEChristmas RomanceFrom the Something So Series comes a second chance, enemies-to-lovers, brother’s best friend, holiday romance.ElizabethMy brother was getting married.At Christmas no less.The holiday I hated the most. 😤Let me list all the reasons why this will be the worst season yet:One would be my luggage not arriving. 🧳Two would be being told I had to find somewhere else to sleep since my room was occupied by family members.Oh, and now I am forced to stay with my brother’s best friend.The man who broke my heart seven years ago. 💔NateMy best...