Winter’s long nights might feel heavy and gray, but for readers, they’re pure magic. When the world outside is chilly and quiet, it becomes the perfect excuse to dive into the stack of books waiting on your shelf. The cold keeps you indoors, and that’s exactly when a heartwarming winter romance belongs in your hands. Picture it: soft blankets, glowing candles, your favorite pair of warm socks, a steaming mug of tea, and a story that melts the frost away. Honestly, isn’t that the dreamiest way to spend a winter evening?
From snowy small-town love stories to glittering holiday meet-cutes, these romances are tailor-made for cozy nights in.
The Lodge
by Kayla Olson
Alix Morgan just got her big break as the ghostwriter of a memoir by Sebastian Green, a former member of the boy band True North. And when he offers her a penthouse at a luxurious resort in Vermont, she jumps at the chance to work far away from her noisy, cramped apartment.
Her career as an entertainment journalist has been building toward this dream job—after all, she used to cover True North and was one of the last people to interview former front man Jett Beckett before he disappeared. As she combs through her client’s voice memos, the specter of the missing lead singer remains, and fans are desperate to know the full story.
But Alix also has time for some fun at this glamorous resort, where she begins ski lessons with a handsome instructor named Tyler. As Alix and Tyler fall in love on the slopes, Alix’s work takes a complicated turn—and the mystery of True North’s downfall may be hers to solve.
by Matthew Norman
The new year has barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler both lose their spouses. Now, nearly a year later, the first holiday season since their “Great and Terrible Sadnesses” approaches. Although their book-club mothers scheme to matchmake the two, it’s clear neither is ready to date again. Yet no one understands what the two surviving spouses are going through better than each other, and a delicate friendship is born.
When Henry sees an ad for a Christmas movie marathon once an annual tradition for him and his wife Grace offers to watch some films together, despite her aversion to a few of his picks. Her two young kids, Ian and Bella, also join in whenever possible bedtimes permitting, of course.
With each movie, Grace and Henry’s shared grief begins to ease as they start to see a life beyond the sadness. But as they draw closer, other romantic possibilities leave them both uncertain about their future together. Is their bond merely the result of loneliness and shared circumstances, or have they found something more long-lasting that’s worth taking a shot at . . . again?
by Josie Silver
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn”t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there”s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.
Certain they”re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn”t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It”s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
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