You have to decide how much you’re willing to sacrifice and how much effort you’re willing to put into the relationship. And those two things usually add up to the reward you get this Christmas season.

1. THE CHRISTMAS FIX by Lucy Score

SYNOPSIS

She’ll save Christmas just to spite him…

There’s only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town’s Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates.

Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities seriously. When a late season hurricane turns Merry, Connecticut, into a disaster, he’s left scrambling to pick up the pieces of the town he loves.

At least, until home renovation expert and smoking hot reality TV star Catalina King arrives with a camera crew and a budget big enough to put the town back together again. But Noah doesn’t want a celebrity diva capitalizing on their tragedy or filling his daughter’s head with visions of glitz and glam.

Blonde bombshell Cat is used to being underestimated, but Noah has an uncanny knack for getting under her skin. They can’t be in a room together without rubbing each other the wrong way… except that time in the dark alley where the rubbing was just right. Can these enemies work together to pull off a Christmas miracle or will their fighting leave them both on the naughty list?

2. SNOWED IN by Catherine Walsh

SYNOPSIS

Megan is dreading going home for the holidays. She’s the village pariah, the she-devil who left local golden boy Isaac at the altar four years ago and ran away to the big city. She could really do without the drama. Particularly as he’s engaged again, and she’s just been dumped for the fourth time this year.

Christian’s fed up of being on his own every Christmas. He doesn’t mind being alone, but he hates his family’s sad eyes and soft tones as they sit around coupled up. Because he’s actually, totally, fine.

So when Megan literally bumps into Christian in a Dublin pub, they come up with a pact to see them through the holiday season. They’re going to be the very best fake dates for each other, ever.

Rules are drawn up, a contract is signed on a wine-stained napkin. They will sit through each other’s family gatherings and be outrageously in love until freed from their annual obligations. After all, it’s only for a few weeks.

But with everyone home for the holidays, two big families to deal with alongside old friends, old flames and old feelings, things are bound to get messy. And when a snowed-in cabin and a little Christmas magic are added to the mix, anything could happen…

3. I’LL BE HOME… by Tate James and Heather Long

SYNOPSIS

They say you can never go back…

‘Course, I never wanted to return. It took me years to age out. Once I made it, I took off and never turned around.

Trust me, there were only three reasons I managed to survive there as long as I did and they abandoned me as soon as they were able. I’d like to say I didn’t blame them, but that would be a lie.

I had zero desire to return. Yet here I was, on the road to Northland chasing a story cause my editor told me kids were disappearing… again.

It doesn’t matter what I want, I’m taking the fastest route to the darkest part of my past. And then I’ll be home…

4. FIVE WINTERS by Kitty Johnson

SYNOPSIS

Ever since Beth Bailey was a girl, she’s been in love with her best friend’s older brother, Mark. She’s continued to hold out hope that maybe, someday, he’ll love her back. But now Beth is thirty-five years old, and on the day of Mark’s wedding to another woman, she finally accepts the wake-up call she needs to move on.

Beth’s dream of marrying her first love may be over, but her other biggest desire is still within reach: becoming a mother. Having lost her own parents very young, there’s nothing Beth wants more in life, and nothing she’ll stop at to make her wish come true.

Over the course of five years, and with unexpected twists along the way, Beth will come to startling realizations about family, friendship, the meaning of love, and most importantly, herself on the winding path to happiness and, she hopes, to motherhood.

5. HIS CHRISTMAS LIST by T.L. Swan

SYNOPSIS

• The Expert

Elizabeth is in the middle of a nightmare. She has to go to a work conference that her ex is attending with his new wife. When Kerry her assistant sneakily organizes a date for her for the weekend she’s beyond mortified. Enter Thomas Stone. Suave, handsome, and experienced. An expert in the field of dating. He’s handsome and witty, utterly infuriating. Then things go from bad to worse when they are forced to share a hotel room. But sometimes things happen for a reason and maybe there’s more to Thomas than meets the eye.

• Mr. Prescott

Alora’s Christmas is looking up, she’s booked into an exclusive resort in Switzerland to fulfil a bucket list fantasy. The rules are no names, no personal details, and no contact after. When she’s introduced to the enigmatic Mr Doe she had no idea that he would turn her world on its head. After forty eight hours with him, life will never be the same.

• Alaskan Jack

When city girl, Holly, took a business trip to Alaska, she was unprepared. Her assistant called in sick, she missed her flight, then had to drive for hours in the dead of night. Add to that, a storm, a car accident, and a grumpy saviour, Jack. When Holly is forced to spend the night in Jack’s log cabin. She gets more than she bargained for. Alaska, where the weather is wild, and so are the men.

• The Christmas Angel

Zoe never thought she’d be grateful for a flat tyre but when a handsome policeman pulled over to help her… things changed. Constable Dylan Andrews was every Christmas wish come true. And when he offered to give her a private escort home, she knew she was in for one hell of a ride.

• The Bonus

My name is Grace Porter, and I am the personal assistant to Gabriel Ferrara, CEO of Ferrara Media in New York. It’s the perfect job, great pay, beautiful office, everything I ever dreamed of, if not for one small detail. I am utterly and hopelessly in love with my boss.