Holly Reed is a 28-year-old web developer who believes in magic-even if she'd never admit it. What she doesn't know is that for the past year, Santa's brooding right-hand elf has been watching her through the North Pole's surveillance systems, falling harder with every quirky moment. Thalen Starling has spent 247 years being serious and responsible, never wanting anything for himself. Until he overheard Holly defending Christmas magic to her niece, and everything changed. Now it's one week before Christmas, and a vengeful winter spirit has unleashed malware that's corrupting the North Pole's systems. Thalen has no choice but to recruit the one person who can help save Christmas: the human woman he's been pining over for a year.

Seventeen-year-old Millie has always felt like an outsider quiet, observant, and marked by the strange, wing-shaped birthmark that stretches across her back like a secret trying to speak. Living a quiet life in the eerie coastal town of Slander Bay, she thinks her biggest challenge is surviving her final year of high school. But everything changes when she meets him, a boy who feels hauntingly familiar, like he's been stitched into her fate long before she knew his name. Just as their connection deepens, Millie is ripped from the life she knew, kidnapped by strangers who claim to know who she truly is. As dark truths unravel, Millie discovers her parents have been hiding something from her. Something ancient. Something powerful. And now, someone wants it back. A story of first love, hidden legacies, and the dangerous magic of becoming who you were born to be wings and all.

Three days, two perfect strangers and one missing cat. To Nora and Ali, it's their situation but to anyone else who knows the pair, it's a recipe for disaster. *** Nora and Ali do not know one another. In fact, their exchanges had been minimal until one day Ali entered the local halal chicken takeaway, demanding Nora's attention. And her help. Billy the Cat is missing, and Nora was the last person to have seen him, having welcomed him to the local pet shop hotel. Only, what Ali does not know is that Billy isn't missing, he has been sold. Having lost her job as a result of the situation, Nora chooses to take advantage, and offers Ali her assistance. Only, she doesn't have any knowledge or expertise on the matter, and really, just wants to put this situation behind her. Forced on a journey to Scotland, Ali and Nora have no choice but to work together to find Billy...and quite possibly steal him back. With clashing personalities and three days on the road, will these two strangers be able to find Billy? And along the way, perhaps even find themselves?