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What’s a betrayed tech queen to do when she’s booted from her own company, slandered in the press, and hunted by holiday scandal? Disappear, obviously, into a flannel shirt, fake glasses, and a new life as a scruffy handyman named “Rory.” Rose Landon was once Denver’s brightest startup star, until her smarmy CFO Felix Duke staged a corporate coup and painted her as the villain. With her empire stolen and the world watching, Rose escapes to Pinewood Hollow, a snow-dusted ski town straight out of a Christmas movie. Her late uncle’s cabin offers a hideaway. A job at the local eco-...

Elina Malone was the best thief Manhattan never caught, until one near-miss heist, a stolen ruby, and a very grumpy Rottweiler convinced her to vanish for good. Reinvented as “Elina Winters,” she lands in snowy Pine Hollow: a charming town full of fruitcake-wielding neighbors, nosy knitters, and one annoyingly handsome sheriff. She swears she’s gone straight… until the town’s beloved Christmas Festival is threatened by a greedy developer, a missing deed, and a buried treasure straight out of a 1920s bank robbery. Now, to save a holiday and protect a new home she never meant to ...

A brass clock. A Christmas Eve wish. A love story that refuses to stay in its own century. On Christmas Eve, 1944, antique-shop owner Ivy Calloway unwraps more than gingerbread and ration coupons when a mysterious man delivers a brass clock said to bend time itself. One slip of the key later, Ivy stumbles straight into 2026, a world of drones, phones, peppermint bark stands, and one very stubborn, very modern doctor named Jack Carter. She wants to go home. He wants her to stay. The problem? Every tick of the clock drags Ivy closer to an impossible choice: the family she left behind in ...

A holiday rom-com stuffed with secrets, sarcasm, and a scandalously slow-burn romance. Harper Quinn, true-crime podcaster and reigning queen of sarcasm, thought surviving Thanksgiving with her dysfunctional family was punishment enough. But when her ex-best friend, and brooding former baking rival, Rowan Hale shows up as the caterer, things go from frosty to flaming faster than you can say “burnt yams.” Snowed in, turkey-trot-muddied, and stuck decorating with glittery cornucopias and unresolved feelings, Harper and Rowan are forced to face their biggest mess yet: each other. As pies ...

Welcome to Winterbrook! A twinkly, snow-kissed hamlet where Emma Woodhouse, a dazzling 27-year-old love alchemist, spins romance from fairy lights and festive dreams at her Evergreen Mistletoe Matchmaking Agency. In this whimsical modern spin on Jane Austen’s Emma, our heroine’s a social media Cupid, sprinkling holiday dating magic with a wink and a jingle. Her mission? To pair every lonely heart before the Christmas bells chime, while sidestepping her own pesky feelings. But when her agency wobbles under a blizzard of bills, a charming doctor’s fibs unravel her trust, and her ...

Rewind the day. Rewrite the rules. And rethink everything you hate about Christmas. Abigail “Abby” Spangler has one ironclad rule: Christmas is cancelled. Between a childhood holiday meltdown that shattered her family and a decade-long career hosting Denver’s snarkiest anti-Christmas radio show, Abby’s made cynicism an art form. But when a lightning strike traps her in a 24-hour holiday time loop, complete with fake snow, a corrupt councilman, and one grumpy barista who hates December even more than she does, Abby’s forced to confront the one season she’s sworn to avoid. Each ...

She’s a TV chef. He’s her worst critic. Together, they’re America’s most chaotic manhunt Celebrity chef Jennifer Ryder has perfected two things: holiday specials and hiding her panic. But when a stolen carving knife with her initials turns up at an LAX murder scene, Christmas Eve turns into a cross-country catastrophe. Now America’s quinoa queen is suddenly the nation’s most meme-able fugitive, and stuck beside the one man she’d rather flambé than trust. Alan Taylor, snark-king of viral food blog The Bitter Palate, has been roasting Jennifer online since she tanked his food-...

She brought tofu to turkey country, now her heart’s on the menu. Ava Sterling, vegan podcaster, political firebrand, and proud Seattleite—dreads returning home to conservative Willow Creek, Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. But when a freak blizzard traps her in town, she finds herself stuck at The Ember café... and face-to-face with Cole Ramsey, the charming, flannel-wrapped local who also happens to be the Republican state representative. Their debates are fiery, their chemistry hotter, and just when Ava thinks she can’t be surprised again, Cole reveals a softer, greener side. Toss in a ...

Two ex-lovers, one fortress, zero reservations. When a burned-out celebrity chef and a disgraced food photographer take a last-minute catering job at a billionaire’s Thanksgiving gala in the Adirondacks, they expect awkward small talk and cold canapés, not eco-terrorists, drone attacks, and a centuries-old cookbook worth ten million dollars. Now Sloane Ryder, Hell’s Kitchen champion turned recluse, and Nico Vale, the paparazzo who captured her public meltdown, must cook, fight, and flirt their way through a glass-walled fortress under siege. Armed with sauté pans, cranberry bombs, and...

Two kitchens. Two cultures. One Thanksgiving where love, and tempura, might just save the day. When a glitchy travel app sends rising Japanese-American chef Miki Tanaka to the wrong Plymouth, her dreams of catering a high-profile Boston Thanksgiving implode in a swirl of snow, soy sauce, and misplaced ambition. Stranded in a pilgrim-obsessed small town that still hosts reenactments, Miki finds herself roped into co-catering Plymouth’s annual “Pilgrim Palooza” with her old culinary school rival, Tom Harper, a single dad and history teacher who worships canned cranberry sauce and ...

When your dating app’s haunted, true love’s your only tech support Mara Foldes has officially swiped left on love. A Brooklyn copywriter with more bad dates than tax deductions, she’s sarcastic, caffeinated, and thoroughly done with modern romance, until she insults the wrong woman at a speed-dating event. Turns out “Grizzy,” the quirky matchmaker with too many rings and opinions, is actually Griselda, a four-hundred-year-old witch who curses Mara’s dating app with a spell from hell: sixteen first dates, each one a full-blown fairy tale that resets at midnight. Cinderella’s ...

What if the love of your life was a stranger you met in an airport, destined to slip through your fingers time and again? In the bustling chaos of JFK Airport, April Connors, a driven New York City marketing consultant, shares a fleeting, flirty conversation with Andrew Sebelton, a charming tech entrepreneur with a disarming grin. Exchanging only first names, their playful debate over airport coffee feels like a one-off encounter, a moment destined to fade as April, noticing his “cute bum,” watches him disappear into the crowd.Both assume they’ll never cross paths again, just another ...

Saltflower Bay shimmers with golden dunes, rare blossoms that glow beneath the moon, and a history steeped in pirate lore. To botanist Zeryn Quill, the island is both breathtaking and foreboding. She has come to study the elusive saltflowers, but her true purpose is far more personal. Five years ago her beloved sister Ismeria vanished here during the summer festival, leaving only whispers of a mysterious women’s society known as the Saltflower Pact. The island is alive with secrets. Lanterns blaze along the boardwalk while rituals unfold under starlit cliffs. Locals warn Zeryn to stop ...

She came for the byline. She stayed for the chaos. And the chef. When sharp-tongued food writer Maya Torres lands in sleepy seaside Crescent Bay to expose its booming culinary scene, she’s got one rule: no falling for the locals, especially not Jude Callahan, the ex-flame who once broke her teenage heart and now runs the town’s hottest restaurant (and still looks annoyingly edible). But sparks fly faster than a flambé when a fake-couple act for the food festival goes wildly viral. Between flying flour, stolen glances, and a town full of matchmaking meddlers, Maya’s sarcasm starts ...

Ellie Harper thought she’d signed up to vlog a charming international wedding festival. She didn’t realize she’d be battling runaway veils, viral mishaps, a meddling ex, and, worst of all, Javier Ruiz, the grumpy, infuriatingly gorgeous venue owner who seems determined to rain on her sunny American parade. When a fake relationship for publicity becomes the festival’s hottest ticket, Ellie and Javier find themselves dodging jealous rivals, surviving bull runs (yes, with actual bulls… sort of), and dancing through tomato-throwing chaos. Between palace masquerades, sword-wielding ...

In the lavender-scented hills of Provence, love has never been so... allergic. Ethan Blackwood is a scandal-plagued Hollywood star in hiding. Armed with nothing but a fake name, a tragic bee allergy, and a battered sense of pride, he escapes to the sun-drenched village of Roussillon to lay low, ideally somewhere without insects, pitchforks, or public humiliation. Elise Moreau is a passionate eco-blogger and fiercely independent beekeeper who’s fed up with celebrity influencers exploiting her beloved Provence. So when she spots a suspiciously handsome stranger fumbling with lavender soap ...

Two hearts. One farm. A legend ripe for love. When hula dancer Leilani Kealoha inherits her aunt’s struggling pineapple farm near Honolulu, she vows to protect her heritage. Enter Kai Nakamura, her childhood friend turned mainland developer, back with modern hula moves, a secret agenda, and a plan that clashes with her traditions. A desperate bid for a loan forces them into a fake engagement, igniting a rivals-to-lovers spark neither can ignore. Between rehearsal disasters, wardrobe malfunctions, and Kai’s mistaken-identity stint as a celebrity instructor, their chemistry builds in step...

Nora Finch has always loved history. She just never expected to fall into it, literally. One moment, she’s running her barely-surviving time-travel-themed tour company in the sleepy Scottish village of Glenmoore, dodging rent notices and awkward family dinners. The next, she’s hurled back to 1745, armed with nothing but a sarcastic archaeologist, a cursed runestone, and a head full of historical trivia that’s suddenly become uncomfortably relevant. Enter Oliver Black: grumpy, brilliant, and deeply unimpressed by time travel, fake marriages, or Nora’s flair for spontaneous chaos. ...

One runaway royal. One amnesiac movie star. One unforgettable love story written under Amsterdam’s stars. When blockbuster darling Sophia Hart vanishes from Hollywood headlines after a career-shaking scandal, the world assumes she’s hiding in Los Angeles. In reality, a late-night stumble along an Amsterdam canal, and the obsessive devotion of a fan, sweeps her into a tulip-filled village where her memories slip through her fingers like water. Across the city, on a creaky houseboat anchored in the Prinsengracht, Remy van der Linden, aspiring screenwriter, secret royal runaway, and ...

When shy small-town librarian Sophia Winslow wins a dream vacation to the Greek islands, she imagines days filled with sun-drenched reading and quiet, solo strolls through olive groves. What she doesn’t expect? A major contest mix-up, and being forced to share the prize with her charming ex-boss and arch-nemesis, the outrageously handsome corporate golden boy, Alex Drake. Stranded together on Naxos, faking coupledom to secure honeymoon perks and dodge nosy locals, Sophia and Alex agree to keep their distance. But when a stray dog named Zorba adopts them, a local tavern owner mistakes ...