The Books

Ellie Morrison doesn’t need a miracle, she needs customers. Her grandmother’s bakery is the heart of the tiny Highland village of Glenmorie, and Ellie will do whatever it takes to keep it alive. Even if right now „whatever it takes“ means talking to her cat about the electricity bill.

TV-star Grant MacAllister doesn’t need a detour, he needs to get to Inverness. But when his car dies on a snowy Highland road, he ends up in a village so small it doesn’t have a phone signal, a cash machine, or anyone who recognizes his face. What it does have is a bakery that smells like Christmas morning and a woman behind the counter who looks at him like he’s just another tourist tracking snow across her clean floor.

It should end there. But the snow keeps falling, his car isn’t going anywhere, and somewhere between the meddling Book Club Ladies and the way Ellie laughs when she thinks no one is watching, Grant stops wanting to leave.

When he tastes her cinnamon kisses macaroons, he knows this is the real thing. Not polished, not staged, just genuinely extraordinary. He proposes featuring Ellie and her bakery in his Christmas TV special — a chance that could save her shop and change her life. Ellie isn’t sure she trusts the offer, or the man making it. But with the bills piling up and Christmas around the corner, she can’t afford to say no.

As the cameras get ready to roll, so does Grant’s past. Victoria Lancaster — his glamorous ex-turned-producer — arrives in Glenmorie to take charge of the production. She has her own vision for the show, her own plans for Grant’s career, and absolutely no interest in a quaint little bakery or the woman who runs it.

Now Ellie has to decide if she’s brave enough to trust a man whose world looks nothing like hers. And Grant has to figure out whether the life he’s been building is the one he actually wants — or if everything he needs has been waiting in a tiny Highland bakery all along.

Two worlds. One unforgettable Christmas. And a batch of cinnamon kisses that just might change everything.

Emma Clarke is a social media influencer whose carefully curated online life has just collapsed. When a scandal costs her everything — her followers, her sponsors, her flat — she has nowhere to go but a run-down Highland estate she’s inherited from an aunt she barely knew.

Ian MacTavish is a grumpy, reclusive Scot who has been looking after the crumbling property for years. The last thing he wants is a city girl with a phone addiction turning his quiet life upside down. But when Emma arrives — soaking wet, completely out of her element, and stubbornly refusing to leave — he’s stuck with her.

There’s just one problem. Well, several. The house may or may not have a ghost. The village Book Club Ladies have decided Ian and Emma are a perfect match. And a legendary mistletoe hanging in the entrance hall seems to have a mind of its own, engineering one awkward romantic encounter after another.

As Emma trades ring lights for candlelight and hashtags for honest conversations, she begins to see what life looks like when you stop performing it. And Ian, who thought he’d given up on people, discovers that sometimes the most unexpected guest is the one you’ve been waiting for.

A grumpy Scot. A sunshine girl who’s lost her shine. And a magical mistletoe that knows exactly what it’s doing.

Fiona Buchanan’s academic career is in ruins. A scathing peer review destroyed her research paper — and her confidence along with it. When she inherits the use of her late great-aunt’s cottage in Glenmorie for the winter, she jumps at the chance to hide from the world and figure out what comes next.

But the cottage isn’t empty. Callum Crawford is already there, claiming he’s doing genealogy research in the Highlands. He’s charming, annoyingly well-read, and seems to know far too much about Scottish history. Fiona doesn’t trust him — and she definitely doesn’t trust the way her pulse quickens whenever he smiles.

As the village prepares for Hogmanay — Scotland’s legendary New Year’s celebration — Fiona and Callum are drawn into ancient traditions: first-footing, cèilidh dancing, the midnight bonfire. The Book Club Ladies, naturally, are convinced these two belong together and aren’t above a little strategic meddling.

What Fiona doesn’t know is that Callum isn’t who he says he is. And what Callum doesn’t expect is that the woman whose career he inadvertently derailed is the same woman he’s falling for. When midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve, the masks come off — and both have to decide whether what they’ve found is worth fighting for.

A fake identity. A shared cottage. And a Hogmanay midnight that changes everything.