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I gotcha! You want to feel xmassy but you just can’t get there, like winter is edging you like a bastard when you want to burst tinsel and plastic bells everywhere.

Well, this pagan witch has you frickin’ covered!

Rhoda Baxter’s Snowed In is a cosy version of what a uk hallmark movie would be like if ut was, like, well-written. It’s low conflict, sweet, and this time the chick is the STEM working rich one which is a frickin’ delight.

Lilith Stone‘s The Gargoyle Grinch was the first of her monster fucker books and it’s just great. It opened up the world and I recommend the whole series. Light but… heartfelt. Just the right amount of heartfelt.

Sticking with a great monster fucker series, Honey Phillips’ Fairhaven series is chock full of passionate encounters, awesome worldbuilding, and side characters that make you excited for when they get their book. This is one for anyone who’s ever teased their DM/GM about sexy npcs.

AC Arthur’s gorgeous small town sexiness about a school teacher single mother and the fantastically wealthy, famous, and hot fella who blasts back into town is an annual favourite. Warms one through and through!

It’s no secret I adore Christi Caldwell and she’s written around a dozen xmassy books so I struggle to rec only one. I’ve chosen To Wed His Christmas Lady because Cara’s story arc is gorgeous, the burn is like holding hot chocolate between frosted hands, and I read it every year. But I wanna shout out The Duke Alone for being a fucking Home Alone rewrite but romance.

Alexis Daria writes romances about celebrities and I adored this whole Strictly style series but the novella Dance All Night us about doing xmassy things to get into the spirit and so it’s perfect to get your head in that space!

Empi Baryeh‘s cyber lovers taking a chance is sexy as all get out but shows the vulnerability of an internet self and an in person self. Empi writes characters who are so very aware of their own flaws and it’s devastating and hot as hell. Love all her books but this is a fave!

I hope at least some of these tickle your fancy enough to get you feeling the solstice, whichever hemisphere you’re in! Rememver to stay cosy, beloveds!