These New Holiday Romcom Books Will Warm Your Heart

Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

If you enjoyed Alison Cochrun’s debut novel The Charm Offensive, then you’ll beryllium excited to cognize she’s backmost with a cute vacation romance. One twelvemonth ago, Ellie Oliver had precocious moved to Portland, was moving her imagination occupation successful animation, and she adjacent met a pistillate astatine a bookstore with whom she instantly felt a romanticist connection. The adjacent day, each of that was undone with a betrayal and the nonaccomplishment of her occupation soon after. Now Ellie is moving astatine a java store and surviving successful the tiniest flat imaginable. That’s erstwhile her java shop’s landlord approaches her with a plan: a matrimony of convenience that volition springiness him his caller inheritance and assistance alleviate immoderate of Ellie’s fiscal stress. The 2 program to walk the holidays successful a compartment unneurotic to truly solidify the “relationship” and marque it look real. But past Andrew introduces Ellie to his sister, who happens to beryllium the pistillate she met a twelvemonth agone astatine that bookstore.

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy

This steamy vacation romcom stars plus-size big movie prima Bee Hobbes. Bee has a immense pursuing and 2 supportive moms, but her vocation is connected the verge of taking a crook erstwhile her favourite shaper casts her to prima successful a Christmas movie. And no, it’s not an big film. It’s for the family-friendly Hope Channel. Even better, her starring antheral is going to beryllium her puerility crush and ex-boy set subordinate Nolan Shaw. All she has to bash is support her big movie vocation nether wraps. But that’s a batch easier said than done.

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Two Christmases by Suleena Bibra

For Sonia Gupta, there’s thing similar being successful New York City for the holidays. But for state lad Beau Abbot, a state Christmas can’t beryllium beat. He’s beauteous overmuch against everything successful the metropolis — but for Sonia. The 2 are successful wholly antithetic worlds with 2 precise antithetic ideas of what makes the cleanable Christmas. But volition they beryllium capable to clasp the champion of some worlds and find a spot for each different successful their different wholly other lives? This is the 2nd publication successful a series, but it reads conscionable arsenic good arsenic a standalone if you privation to skip to the Christmas fun!

A Cat Cafe Christmas by Codi Gary

This is an opposites pull romance astir the 3 C’s: Christmas, coffee, and cats. When Kara Ingalls opened the Meow and Furrever Cat Café, it was a imagination travel true. But the café has been dilatory lately, and if she can’t find immoderate mode to get it retired of the reddish earlier the holidays, she’s acrophobic she’ll person to unopen its doors. Enter selling guru Ben Reese. When helium hatches the cleanable program to get the café backmost successful the green, she knows she would beryllium a fool to enactment no. But volition the 2 beryllium capable to support things wholly professional?

A Valentine for Christmas by Reese Ryan

In the archetypal publication successful Reese Ryan’s caller Valentine Vineyards series, Chandra Valentine someway agrees to airs arsenic Dr. Julian Brandon’s girlfriend. Even though he’s acold excessively young, the palmy bachelor has rescued her much than once, and she owes him. But is this conscionable a fake relationship, oregon does Julian person plans to instrumentality things further? When helium does effort a saccharine seduction nether the mistletoe, he’ll person Chandra questioning everything she thought she knew astir love.

The Christmas Wish by Lindsey Kelk

Gwen Baker is recently azygous and her vocation is hanging connected by a thread. The lone happening that tin marque things better? A cleanable household Christmas. But everyone other successful her household seemingly has their full beingness together. And Dev, her boy-next-door crush, has grown into a handsome alien with a fiancée. Gwen can’t assistance but privation her ain aboriginal was a small brighter. And past thing unusual happens. She wakes up and it’s Christmas each implicit again. It’s similar Groundhog Day, but with eggnog.

The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish

This LGBTQIA+ romcom takes readers from a cozy New England haven to the bosom of New Orleans. Greta Russakoff loves her tight-knit household successful Maine. But it’s hard being a lesbian successful specified a tiny town, and she’s realizing that she desperately needs immoderate abstraction to find herself. Meanwhile, Truman Belvedere has conscionable discovered that his fellow has a concealed life, including a hubby and a daughter. Heartbroken, he’d bash thing to get retired of Louisiana. That’s erstwhile a communal person comes up with a plan: Truman and Greta volition swap homes for the holidays and possibly find the emotion of their lives successful the process.

Season of Love by Helena Greer

Season of Love is a queer, Jewish vacation romcom that follows Miriam Blum. Miriam’s great-aunt Cass has conscionable passed away, leaving Miriam part-owner of Carrigan’s, a Jewish-run Christmas histrion farm. The concern is astatine hazard of going under, and if Miriam wants to person immoderate accidental astatine turning things around, she’ll person to larn however to enactment alongside the farm’s grumpy manager Noelle Northwood. Noelle conscionable wants Miriam gone. Even if Miriam is wholly charming and has truly bully ideas, redeeming the Christmas histrion workplace volition necessitate spot and a willingness to hazard it all. Will Miriam beryllium capable to beryllium to Noelle that she has what it takes?

A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli

A Holly Jolly Diwali is a delightful vacation romanticist drama that sees type-A information analyst Niki Randhawa discover her amusive broadside aft being laid disconnected and realizing that being applicable and liable isn’t moving retired for her similar she thought it would. And truthful she books a last-minute travel to Mumbai for her person Diya’s wedding and arrives successful India conscionable successful clip to observe Diwali, the festival of lights. There, she meets Sameer Mukherji, a free-spirited London instrumentalist who helps Diya get successful interaction with her originative broadside arsenic good arsenic her Indian roots.

Amor Actually, edited by Mackenzie Walton

Amor Actually is a charming vacation romance anthology featuring 7 abbreviated stories from 7 acclaimed and bestselling Latina authors. These stories volition amusement readers that thing is imaginable connected Christmas Eve. For the couples successful these stories, the holidays are a accidental to find existent love, reconnect with aged flames, marque large leaps of faith, observe that missed connection, and astir importantly, find a happily ever after. And if you were wondering, yes, these are amusive retellings of the stories successful the fashionable Christmas romcom movie Love, Actually.