The Christmas Edit
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Last published Thu, Dec 25, 2025
Juliet Pierce edits bestselling love stories for a living-but she doesn't believe in happy endings. The razor-sharp CEO of Rosecliff Publishing built her empire on perfection, deadlines, and control. Christmas? Just another distraction wrapped in glitter and noise.
When her bubbly assistant announces that Juliet's younger sister is getting engaged over the holidays, Juliet finds herself cornered into returning home to the small town she left behind-and the memories she buried with it.
Snow falls, lights twinkle, and Juliet's old life comes rushing back, along with two ghosts from her past: her ex, Steve Rogers-now her sister's fiancé-and his best friend, Bucky Barnes, the boy who once shared her love of books, fireplaces, and dreams bigger than their town could hold.
Bucky never left. He now runs the same bookstore where he and Juliet spent their childhood winters reading Wuthering Heights by the fire. And as fate would have it, their story isn't quite finished.
In a season made for miracles and second chances, Juliet will have to decide whether some stories are meant to be rewritten... and whether love, like the best books, can always find its way back to the beginning.
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