Gloria: a sweet, small town Christmas romance (Holidays in Hamlet Book 1)

Name: Gloria: a sweet, small town Christmas romance (Holidays in Hamlet Book 1)
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Rating: 4.4 (630 reviews)
Author: Jessica Lynch

by Jessica Lynch

Contemporary Fiction Romance

4.4 (630)

4.4 stars from 630 reviews. Top 94% of Contemporary Fiction books we track.

224 pages~3.7 hr readPublished by Independently publishedPublished 2019-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love small-town settings where everyone knows each other and Christmas feels genuinely cosy, not saccharine.
You're drawn to grumpy-sunshine dynamics and want a romance that builds slowly through proximity and reluctant companionship.
You enjoy low-stakes contemporary romance where the real tension comes from character chemistry rather than external drama.

Maybe not for you if...

You find Christmas themes exhausting or prefer stories set in other seasons.
You want complex, multi-layered plots. This is straightforward: girl inherits house, girl meets neighbour, attraction happens.
You're looking for steamy or intense romance. This is sweet and gentle, focused more on warmth than heat.

About this book

Gloria Watson inherits a house in the small town of Hamlet from a great aunt she never knew existed. As her next of kin, she receives everything her great aunt owned, but with one condition: she must live in the house for a year before it becomes fully hers. Gloria, who dreams of starting her own business, sees this as an opportunity to earn the money she needs while developing her ideas. She moves into the house by Thanksgiving, ready to spend the holidays there. Her new neighbor is Franklin, a man she finds attractive but who is grumpy and dislikes Christmas. Gloria must navigate her year in Hamlet while dealing with her unexpected feelings for someone so opposed to the season she has just arrived to experience.

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