Trope: Secret Identity

  • The Billionaire’s Holiday Fix

    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.

    The Billionaire’s Holiday Fix by Robin Bayliss, showing Tricia and Nick between snowy New York City and a Christmas tree farm in Snowball Falls, with a goat beside them.
  • Mistaken Under the Mistletoe

    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.

    Mistaken Under the Mistletoe by Robin Bayliss, showing innkeeper Emma Walsh with disguised country singer Colt Hayes, his guitar and a suspicious cat outside the snowy Ginger Bell Inn.
  • The Holiday Switch

    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.

    The Holiday Switch by Robin Bayliss, showing Tasha arriving at a snowy cabin where Ben, a golden retriever and a paper-chewing goat greet her.
  • A Wish on the Winter Star

    A Wish on the Winter Star

    She lives between the pages of other people’s happy endings. He’s a runaway prince with one chance to find his own.

    Cassie Bennett has always believed in magic. It’s why she stayed in Snowball Falls, helping her mother run the town’s beloved bookshop, where the cocoa is always warm and the books are wrapped like presents.

    She’s content recommending fairy tales to strangers and keeping her own heart safely out of reach.

    Then James walks into the shop.

    He has a posh accent, no idea what a toaster strudel is and a way of looking at Cassie as though she’s the only story he wants to read. He’s funny, kind and completely out of place in Snowball Falls. He’s also keeping a secret large enough to attract several newspapers and at least one constitutional headache.

    James is really Prince Leif of Nordreim, hiding from the royal life he never chose.

    One kiss beneath the town’s ancient oak leads to stolen evenings, whispered wishes and the sort of connection Cassie thought belonged in books. For the first time, Leif can imagine a life shaped by his own choices. Cassie begins to wonder whether her quiet corner of Snowball Falls might have room for something extraordinary.

    Secrets have a tiresome habit of surfacing. When Leif’s identity becomes international news, reporters descend and their cozy winter wonderland turns into a royal spectacle.

    As the legendary Winter Star appears for the first time in a generation, Cassie must decide whether loving a prince means surrendering the life she treasures. Leif must choose between the expectations waiting at home and the woman who finally makes him feel at home.

    A Wish on the Winter Star is a sweet, closed-door Christmas romance filled with secret royalty, bookshop magic, snow-kissed wishes and a fairy-tale love beneath the twinkle lights.

    A Wish on the Winter Star by Robin Bayliss, showing Cassie and Prince Leif sharing a wrapped book beneath the glowing Winter Star outside a snowy Christmas bookshop.
  • Mistletoe and Mobsters

    Mistletoe and Mobsters

    He’s undercover. She’s unraveling the case. Can one fake Santa survive a small town filled with secrets, cocoa and second chances?

    Marley Winters is not here for the mistletoe. After a spectacular professional crash-and-burn, she’s back in Snowball Falls to regroup with glitter, cocoa and no patience for mysterious men in red suits.

    Then he shows up.

    Vin DeLuca looks like he was assembled in a holiday hero laboratory. Broad shoulders. Haunted eyes. A Santa beard that definitely doesn’t belong in aisle seven of the mall. Marley remembers him from band camp, but he claims he doesn’t remember her at all.

    She isn’t buying it.

    When a kindergarten field trip goes sideways and their makeshift North Pole begins to look suspiciously like a front for something bigger, Marley starts digging. She investigates the town’s alarmingly festive PTA, Vin’s increasingly questionable answers and the confidential file he keeps trying to hide beneath his Santa suit.

    The deeper Marley gets, the harder it becomes to ignore the man behind the beard. Vin has spy-level reflexes, a soft spot for marshmallow-sticky children and far too many reasons to keep her at a distance. Unfortunately, Snowball Falls has never respected anyone’s wish for privacy.

    Now Marley must decide whether exposing Vin’s secrets will solve the mystery, ruin his mission or reveal a heart worth unwrapping.

    Mistletoe and Mobsters is a sweet, closed-door Christmas romantic comedy filled with small-town shenanigans, slow-burn attraction, undercover trouble and enough kindergarten glitter to compromise a federal investigation.

    Mistletoe and Mobsters by Robin Bayliss, showing undercover Santa Vin with a badge and confidential file beside Marley at a snowy Snowball Falls Christmas market.