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Have Yourself a Merry Little Meltdown: A Home for the Holidays Christmas Romance Novel

by Sheila Roberts

A holiday homecoming complicated by a secret

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A holiday homecoming complicated by a secret

Jordan Frost returns to Holly Bay as her holiday novel—based on her eccentric family—prepares to be published, hoping her pen name will keep the book’s connection to her under wraps. Charles Pine, a former school friend who works at a bookstore, recognizes her and sees her homecoming as a chance to change how she sees him. As minor family emergencies add to Jordan’s already busy season, the story brings romance together with the complications of family, a concealed identity, and holiday traditions. The bookstore setting and the novel-within-the-story premise give this Christmas romance a publishing-world thread alongside its homecoming plot.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy Christmas romances and homecoming stories.
  • Those interested in second-chance romance and family-centered holiday complications.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving bookstores, publishing, and a hidden author identity.

Themes

Holiday romanceFamily and homecomingSecrets and identitySecond chancesHoliday traditions

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Book overview

Bestselling author Sheila Roberts is back with a heartwarming holiday romance full of family, love, and a little bit of intrigue!

Jordan Frost had to do it. Her family was simply too perfectly eccentric not to put in a novel. She was thrilled when she got an agent and then a publishing deal. For two books. Two! Then reality set in. The book about an oddball family's holiday adventures is coming out in November. Just in time for her trip home to Holly Bay, Washington, from the big city. Jordan is desperately hoping she can keep her pseudonym a secret so she can stay in her family's good graces. She wrote the book under a pen name and when it was time for an author picture, she wore a wig and glasses. No one will know it was her, right?

Wrong. Charles Pine, her high school friend who always hoped for more, recognizes the woman he's never gotten over as soon as he unpacks her book to shelve at the bookstore where he works. He knows this is the perfect opportunity to get Jordan to see him in a new light and he makes sure to run into her when she arrives home. She never thought of him as anything more than a shoulder to cry on back then, but he's determined to make her see him as boyfriend material. Can he be her hero and help her get through the season with her secret intact? Or at least save her from a holiday meltdown?

When a series of minor family emergencies threatens to add even more chaos to Jordan's already hectic life, Charles tries to help her find the true meaning of the holiday. Maybe coming home wasn't a bad idea after all...

For fans of:
  • holiday love stories
  • family hijinks
  • second chance romance
  • cozy winter stories full of nostalgia and tradition

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