Excuse Holly Jolly, Esquire, for not feeling very, well, jolly. She’s been down on Christmas for months—ever since she found her fiancé (make that ex-fiancé) making out with his boss in the closet at the District Attorney’s Office Christmas in July party.

While she’s not interested in love or Christmas magic, it’s hard to avoid the season when you live in Mistletoe Mountain. She plans to spend the holidays with her TBR pile, despite what her best friend and her family have to say about it.

Her plans derail like a Christmas train careering off the track when she’s appointed to defend a bearded blue-eyed stranger whose dangerous crime is … placing banned books in little free libraries? The case should be dismissed outright. But of course her politically ambitious ex is the prosecutor, and he digs in his heels.

The judge gives Holly a choice: take responsibility for the defendant or let him spend the holidays in the county lockup. Now, she’s stuck in the one-bedroom guest house at her family’s inn with a kind-hearted criminal who loves Christmas. And books. And who brings her hot chocolate in bed and rubs her tired feet with peppermint oil. Bah, humbug.

Jack Bell embraces everything life throws at him. But he’s not sure what to make of Mistletoe Mountain—or the cranky but adorable spitfire appointed to represent him in a criminal case that has to be a joke. His motto is roll with it. So he’s determined to make the best of his guest house arrest.

When the case goes viral, the prosecutor doubles down on getting a conviction, and Jack worries his secrets will be exposed. Holly works feverishly to defend him in the middle of a media storm, and he sets out to remind her of the true meaning of Christmas by dragging her to the town tree lighting, the gingerbread house-building contest, and every festive event in between. It’ll take a Christmas miracle to win Jack’s case and melt Holly’s icy heart.

This heartwarming holiday rom-com mystery features a closed-door, sunshine-grump romance where he falls first and is loaded with crackling chemistry, gripping suspense, and small-town shenanigans. The second book in the Mistletoe Mountain series, Booked for Christmas can be read as a standalone.

Sasha and Leo are back in A Walking Shadow: A Sasha and Leo Novella!

Sasha McCandless-Connelly has it all—a thriving law practice, a tight-knit family, and a reputation as a formidable litigator. But beneath the surface, shes burning out fast. As she grapples with her crushing fatigue, a routine case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.

Meanwhile, Leos facing a professional crisis of his own, leaving him and his family exposed to a threat from an unknown source.

As the couple navigates these changes, they find themselves tested by a mystery that changes everything they thought they knew.

The story begins where the trail went cold.

The second season of Maisy Farley's true crime podcast takes her to Dead Man's Hollow, an expansive conservation area just outside Pittsburgh, to investigate a cold case.

In 1994, a sixteen-year-old girl vanished from a party in the woods. Heather Ryan has never been found, and no suspect has ever been arrested.

As the thirtieth anniversary of the girl's disappearance approaches, Maisy is determined to uncover the truth about what happened to her. The teenagers with Heather that night, now middle-aged parents, remain tight-lipped about the events in the hollow. The few details that do emerge are dark, disturbing, and not entirely trustworthy. And someone is willing to stop at nothing to keep the long-buried truth hidden.

Welcome to Mistletoe Mountain, where the holiday cheer never ends. Even when you really, really wish it would.

Nick Jolly runs the Inn at Mistletoe Mountain, a quaint Vermont town that celebrates Christmas all year round. The town even holds a Christmas in July festival every summer to keep the holiday spirit flowing. Usually, Nick lives up to his name, but this year, he's recently widowed and embracing his inner Scrooge. It's his first Christmas in July without Carol, and he wants nothing to do with any of it. Nick leaves his adult daughters in charge of festivities at the inn and retreats to his fishing cabin. To grieve. Alone.

Noelle Winters is grieving, too. The town librarian and diehard mystery lover has always found the holidays a bit lonely. She's especially melancholy this year because she's mourning the loss of her holiday-loving best friend, Carol. So when she stumbles across an envelope that contains a Mistletoe Mountain map and head-scratching clues, she jumps at the chance to distract herself with a scavenger hunt.

At first, the hunt seems like harmless fun, but Noelle quickly suspects she's not the only one searching. When she turns up at the fishing cabin, frightened she's being followed, Nick reels in his line and joins her in her quest.

As Nick and Noelle work together to decode the cryptic, holiday-themed puzzle, threatening messages and sabotaged clues pile up. What began as an innocent game takes a sinister turn. And as the danger mounts, the pair's long-buried feelings for each other spark to life.

Will Nick and Noelle survive to solve the puzzle and save Christmas (in July)? And is Mistletoe Mountain's festive magic strong enough to return the sparkle to Nick's eye and give Noelle the gift of love?

One way or another, there'll be fireworks on the mountain this Christmas in July.

This heartwarming holiday rom-com mystery features a closed-door, second-chance romance loaded with crackling chemistry, gripping suspense, and small-town shenanigans. Home for Christmas in July can be read as a standalone.