Reading Length: Longer Reads

Lake Mittens

In the winter of 1995, carpenter Tom Green pins a letter to the North Wind tree. He expects the wind, the snow, or an inquisitive neighbor to carry it away. He certainly doesn’t expect an answer from a woman who claims she is writing from 2026.

Thirty years later, archivist Marian Clay finds Tom’s letter inside a water-damaged box. Writing back begins as an experiment, then becomes a correspondence she cannot explain and a friendship she cannot bear to lose. Tom understands her silences. Marian makes his narrowed world feel possible again. Each new letter draws them closer, even as three decades keep them apart.

Then Marian discovers that Snowball Falls may have remembered Tom’s story incorrectly.

With BrightPeak Developers threatening the town square, Marian and Tom begin following a trail of forgotten records, hidden clues, and secrets buried beneath years of local history. Their only chance to save the town lies in trusting each other across two different winters, where every answer can alter the future and every missing letter could end their connection.

Fortunately, Marian has help from Charles Lickens, a spaniel whose jingle collar makes discreet archival investigation largely theoretical, and a town committee that considers gossip an essential public service.

Lake Mittens is a full-length, sweet, time-crossed winter romance filled with impossible letters, small-town mystery, mature love, snowy nights, and the hope of being found when you thought your story had already ended.

September 12, 2026
The Billionaire’s Holiday Fix

Tricia is tired of being the dependable one. Her struggling Christmas tree farm demands more money, more time, and more energy than she has left. When her glamorous twin suggests a temporary life swap, Tricia trades Snowball Falls for New York City and a borrowed executive identity. She expects a rest. Instead, she lands in the middle of a high-profile gala crisis with no idea what she’s doing.

Nick Sterling steps in before the evening collapses. Calm, capable, and refreshingly uninterested in appearances, he makes Tricia feel seen even while she’s pretending to be someone else. What she doesn’t know is that Nick has a disguise of his own. The helpful stranger beside her is worth billions, and he’s learned to keep that information quiet around anyone he might want to trust.

When Nick discovers Tricia’s secret, he follows her home to Snowball Falls. Soon he’s repairing heaters, hauling trees, hanging festival lights, and attempting to win the approval of a town that considers curiosity a civic duty. Even the resident goat begins to tolerate him, although nobody should mistake that for friendship.

As Christmas gives way to New Year’s Eve, their borrowed identities fall away and something real begins to grow. Then a quiet threat places Tricia’s farm and the town she loves at risk. Staying with Nick could cost her the life she has fought to preserve. Walking away could mean losing the first person who has ever made sharing the burden feel possible.

The Billionaire’s Holiday Fix is a full-length, sweet, closed-door winter romance filled with secret identities, New York sparkle, small-town snow, twin-swap complications, and a billionaire who discovers that some problems cannot be solved by writing a check.

September 12, 2026
Mistaken Under the Mistletoe

Emma Walsh has enough trouble keeping the Ginger Bell Inn standing through Christmas. The pipes leak, the antique doorbell has finally met its match, and her to-do list leaves no room for the brooding stranger who arrives in the middle of a snowstorm.

Her unexpected guest calls himself Colt and claims he’s nobody worth noticing. Emma might have believed him if he didn’t have an unforgettable voice, an expensive guitar, and the instincts of a man accustomed to being watched. Even Bing Clawsby, her deeply suspicious cat, appears to think their newest guest requires surveillance.

Colt Hayes came to Snowball Falls to escape the headlines. As country music’s latest superstar, privacy has become a luxury he can’t buy. At the Ginger Bell Inn, he finds twinkle lights, relentless Christmas festivities, and an innkeeper whose quick wit makes him feel more like himself than he has in years.

Then an impromptu duet at the Snowball Spectacular goes viral, and Colt’s carefully guarded identity becomes the town’s biggest Christmas surprise. With the media closing in, he must decide whether disappearing will protect Emma or destroy the life they could have built together.

Mistaken Under the Mistletoe is a sweet, closed-door Christmas romantic comedy filled with secret celebrity, forced proximity, small-town chaos, musical sparks, and one judgmental cat who remains unconvinced by the hero’s credentials.

September 12, 2026
The Holiday Switch

Burned-out publicist Tasha Greene needs an escape, and her twin has offered the perfect one: swap lives for a month and spend Christmas in Snowball Falls. Tasha expects cozy sweaters, quiet days, and enough distance from her career to remember who she was before work swallowed everything.

Then Ben Hollis welcomes her with a kiss on the cheek.

The handsome local handyman believes she’s Tricia, his best friend, and Tasha misses her chance to correct him. Soon one impulsive lie has her volunteering at the Christmas festival, bluffing her way through her sister’s friendships, and attempting to outwit a document-eating goat with absolutely no respect for expensive boots.

The longer Tasha lives her sister’s life, the more it begins to feel like the place she belongs. Ben’s kindness only makes the truth harder to confess. If she tells him who she really is, she could lose his trust. If she keeps pretending, she risks turning the first real happiness she’s found in years into one more thing she has to leave behind.

The Holiday Switch is a sweet, closed-door Christmas romantic comedy filled with mistaken identity, small-town festivities, witty banter, meddling animals, and a holiday deception that becomes unexpectedly real.

September 12, 2026