Merrily Mine

This Christmas, I’m snowed in… with my brother’s best friend.

Emily Sullivan

I was all set for a quiet two weeks home alone for Christmas. What I didn’t plan on? Running into my brother’s childhood best friend, Mason Elliott, at the local bar—and flirting with him. Eight years older than me and newly divorced, he was deliciously off-limits.

After he rejected me, I knew nothing would ever happen between us. Until he showed up at my house the next day, with the guise of checking on me. When a snowstorm hit the area, he came to my rescue. And now I’m snowed in with the cowboy, and he’s helping me warm up, calling me darlin’, and I can’t help but wonder… can this last, or is it just a holiday fling? Because secretly, all I want for Christmas is him.

Mason Elliott

Moving home after the divorce felt right. Starting over in my mid-thirties was hard, but Montana—and running Midnight Pines Ranch—was where I was supposed to be. No part of me expected the instant connection that happened after meeting Emily Sullivan again. It had been two years since I’d seen her at her older brother’s wedding, and she was breathtaking. But she was too young for me. I couldn’t want to kiss my best friend’s little sister. I’d practically grown up at the Sullivan’s house, since they were our closest neighbors.

So why can I not get her out of my mind? And why is she my first thought when a storm is blowing in, all alone in her big house? I shouldn’t want her, but I can’t stay away. Even if it’s not forever, I’m going to savor every last minute I have with her as the snow falls.

Merrily Mine is a spicy snowed-in, small town cowboy romance that will keep you warm this holiday season! This standalone Christmas Novella is set in the world of the Best Friends Book Club, though you do not have to read any other books to enjoy this one.

Series

Best Friends Book Club, #3.5

Release Date

11/21/2025

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Book #3.5 is a novella in a spin-off of the Best Friends Book Club series but it is a complete standalone!