Best Kindle Unlimited Books for Christmas

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Writer Stella Fisher has been working in London, but decides to travel home to Tennessee to help her mom through their first Christmas without her dad. Making this first even harder, her younger sister ran off to get married without telling anyone.

When Stella returns home, the last person she wants to bump into is her ex, Henry, whose heart she broke years ago. But it turns out there’s a bigger reason behind his unfriendly reception, and Stella is the one person who might be able to help him.

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Maddie and Simon have been best friends forever, but they are very different! Maddie loves late-night karaoke and being the center of attention. Simon prefers to stay home and fades into the background when he’s out. Her home is a disaster, and he alphabetizes his fridge. But their friendship just seems to work. Maddie pushes Simon outside of his comfort zone and encourages him to live a little, and he saves her from her frequent failed relationships.

When Maddie needs a plus one for her best friend’s wedding, Simon is the obvious choice. But this is no regular wedding… it’s a cross-country recreation of the road trip on which Lauren and Will first fell in love.

After ten years of friendship, can Maddie and Simon survive a week together in a car?

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When their jet-setting aunt invites the Chambers sisters to spend the month of December at the family’s cabin in Ashevill, North Carolina, they aren’t sure what to expect. They spent many happy childhood summers and holidays at the cabin, but for the past 25 years, everyone has been avoiding the place.

The triplets, born on Christmas Day, owe a lot to their aunt, so even though they each live in different states, they agree to leave their individual lives behind to spend an entire month at the cabin.

Noelle, a big city girl, comes face-to-face in Asheville with her first love who is now a single dad. Eve is a stressed out mom to three kids of her own, but a month at the cabin gives her a chance to let go of control. And Angie’s marriage is falling apart, but the time away in the Blue Ridge Mountains allows her to reconnect with her daughter.

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Kyler is a professional hockey player for the Nashville Predators. After suffering an injury, he happily accepts an invitation to stay at his teammate’s cabin for the weekend where he can rest and recover.

Iris has recently been through a bad breakup and could use some alone time. When her brother offers her a cabin for the weekend, it seems like the perfect place to get away.

Kyler and Iris met at a party last year, and she was not his biggest fan. The last thing they expect is to end up at the cabin together, let alone to get snowed in.

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Isobel works for one of the most successful men in New York, but he’s a real Scrooge. Bryce is cold and hard to work for, yet he’s shocked when a workplace survey reveals that that people aren’t happy in the office. But a surprise visit from his long-dead business partner helps to shed light on the issues.

Despite Bryce’s crankiness, Isobel loves her job and sees that deep down he’s not as rude as he seems. When he seeks her advice on things that are happening to him, she’s eager to help.

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Scotish legend says that wishes made at the standing stones during Christmas come true, but Maisie Barron doesn’t buy it. Nonetheless, this small town girl makes a wish out of frustration. Little does she know it will lead to a catastrophic event that will threaten the upcoming Christmas Book Festinal.

Weston Smith is a burnt out American professor desperately in need of a vacation to relax and recharge. After planning a trip to Scotland, he finds himself on a real-life mission to woo the girl of his dreams, thanks to the enthusiastic medling of a group of elderly book club members.

Snowed in and with an undeniable attraction, can Maisie and Weston save the the book festival?

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Calista had a wild child reputation in her home town of Aspen Lake, so everyone is suprirsed when she returns years later as the local hospital’s newest ER doctor. She never would have come home at all if she didn’t need to help care for her teenage niece, Quinn.

Now that she’s back, Quinn is scheming up a matchmaking plans to get Calista back together with Tristan. Calista agrees to deck the halls together because she believes she is immune to Tristan’s charms, but she didn’t count on him being in on the plans to win her back.

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Local weather girl Bea Armstrong recently got out of a long-term relationship, and now she’s dreading all the “I-told-you-sos” from her family. But with Christmas coming soon, she knows she won’t be able to avoid it. She’s heading home to Sherwood Forest (did you know it’s a real place in Nottinghamshire, England?!) to stay with her parents for the holidays. Then she finds out that her parents have also invited the insufferable Henry – the man they’ve always wanted her to marry.

When Bea is offered a last-minute interview for her dream job in Scotland, it seems like the perfect out. The only problem is that she doesn’t have a car, and it’s snowing. Her only option is to have Henry drive her. After a crazy two-day interview, an awful trip through the snow, and a stay in a log cabin, Bea starts to see Henry in a different light. But when her ex shows up, things get complicated.

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Lacy is the head of a big investment firm in St. Louis, but her fast paced life comes to a screetching halt when she leans that her grandfather has died leaving her a home in Snowy Pine Ridge, New Hampshire.

She heads to NH to oversee the sale of the historic property, but quickly learns it will need some renovations before it can go on the market. She’s eager to finish up so she can get back to her real life, and she certainly isn’t looking for love. Neither is local dog-sledder Derek Morse who has lived in Snowy Pine Ridge all his life and has little patience for city slickers. But when Lacy comes to Derek looking for help with an abandoned puppy, he can’t say no.

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As a young adult, Elizabeth couldn’t wait to get out of her small Smoky Mountain town. But ten years after leaving, many of her dreams are still unfilled. Then, at a Christmas charity event at the Plaza, she’s dumped by her wealthy boyfriend.

Elizabeth’s mom has been trying to get her to come home to Mason Ridge to help her sort out her grandmother’s estate. With no reason to stay in New York for Christmas, Elizabeth heads home, only to get more bad news. Her mother has received a letter instructing her to vacate the family farm. Can Paul, the handsome commercial developer she met at the new coffee shop, help them save the farm?

While they are working to save the family home, Elizabeth is given a stack of wartime love letters written by her late grandmother. The letters are sweet and lovely, but they weren’t written to Liz’s grandfather. Will the Christmas letters strip her of everything she holds dear?

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In order to win the job as host of Good Day Denver, Marin agrees to travel home to her small town in Illinois for the holidays (for the first time in 8 years) and to let a camera crew capture her and her family doing all their family traditions.

Marin didn’t plan on bumping into her ex, Max, and she espcially didn’t expect the viewers back in Denver to fall in love with him. The viewers want to see them as a couple. But will fake flirting for likes and shares turn into something more?

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If you’re looking for a Christmas book set in a warmer environment to counteract any real-life cold in your hometown, you can travel to the French Riviera in this new Christmas novel!

Twenty-four-year-old Elodie was abandoned by her mother at a young age and left in the care of her French grandmother, Gabriella. With her 70th birthday approaching, Gabriella tells Elodie that she wants to spend Christmas and her birthday in her hometown of Juan-les-pins in the South of France. It’s a magical place during the holidays, filled with lights, decorations, and festive traditions.

Elodie is thrilled about the trip, but her grandmother hasn’t told her the whole story. Gabriella has an ulterior motive for wanting to return home for the first time in 40 years. When Elodie learns that her long-absent mother, whom she still has a lot of anger toward, might be joining them, she tries to feign indifference.

Will the magic of Christmas on the Riviera be able to work its magic on these three women?

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Millie was engaged to Harry, who she thought was her perfect match. But when he finds out they’re expecting a baby, he suddenly wants out. She’s heartbroken but determined to be a great mom.

Eight months later, and now very pregnant, Millie travels to the Isle of Skye in Scotland for the wedding of her best friend, Jules. She’s staying in Lifeboat Cottage, the same accommodations as Jule’s brother, Dexter, whom she’s been friends with since college.

When she receives a call from Harry that leaves her reeling and doubting her decisions, Dexter will try to convince her that she deserves better. But will she listen?

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Master chocolatier Charlee is ready to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps by setting up a chocolate shop in the seaside town of Whitsborough Bay. She’s found the perfect location, but it needs some major TLC before she opens. With Christmas looming, it’s a rush to refurbish the shop in time for the holiday season.

Her boyfriend is pretty useless and she doesn’t have a traditional family, so the countless DIY disasters she faces are extra overwhelming. Help arrives in the form of her plumber, Matt, who renews her Christmas spirit.

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Riley Reynolds is an author who has just written a new novel – a Christmas love story. When she’s asked to do an interview on national tv to help promote the book, she’s caught off guard by a question about how she can write romance when she hasn’t found it for herself. Desperate for a quick answer in the heat of the moment, she says she’s inspired by a great love from her past.

Little does Riley know that three of her ex-boyfriends are watching that interview, and they each think she’s talking about him. Now her world is about to be flipped upside down when all three show up for her Christmas Camp book event at the Christmas Lake Lodge – each hoping for a second chance at a happy ending with Riley.

As the men compete to win her heart by planning the most romantic Christmas dates imaginable, Riley finds herself in a very difficult predicament… she’s falling for not one, but all of them. As she revisits these past relationships, she remembers the different things she loved about each of them, and she also begins to discover more about herself.

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Grace Winters puts her aerospace career on hold and returns home to Creekville to help with her dad’s hardware store while he undergoes chemotherapy. But she plans to leave town again as soon as she can. In the meantime, she’s keeping everyone at arm’s length, which means no dating small-town guys. Especially not Noah, the new high school coach… no matter how cute and charming he may be.

Noah knows that Creekville is just a detour for Grace, and he’s pretty much accepted that he’ll never leave the friend-zone. But he still can’t help but notice how funny and sexy she is. When the two of them are paired up to build a Christmas booth for a big holiday event, he sees an opportunity. He convinces Grace to pose as his girlfriend so that his boss will take him more seriously as he vies for a promotion.

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Christa’s life has been turned upside down – her marriage ended and she lost her Michelin-starred restaurant. She never expected to be single and job hunting right before Christmas. Thankfully, her best friend has recommended her for a gig as a private chef for the holidays. She doesn’t know what to expect, but it turns out that her new employer is a grumpy billionaire with two rambunctious twin sons living on a beautiful but dreary country estate.

When she arrives at Pudding Hall she’s determined to make the holidays a little cheerier for this family of three, and she might just get her own life back on track in the process.

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Mara has a difficult family, and after a disastrous Thanksgiving, she can’t handle any more togetherness or holly and jolly this Christmas. When a last-minute business trip pops up, it’s the perfect excuse. What she didn’t expect was to wind up in the middle of a town that could give the North Pole a run for its money.

Not only is Carole Cove, Montana, a bit too merry and bright, but it also has its own Mr. Holiday – Noel Holiday. Noel runs the cafe in town, and the only thing hotter than his lattes is, well, him. And that’s the last thing Mara needs this holiday season… or is it?

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Single mom Hayley takes her nine-year-old daughter, Angel, to NYC for a magical holiday season. They immediately fall in love with Christmas in the big city, from hot chocolates and carriage rides in Central Park to Christmas shopping on 5th Avenue and ice skating at Rockefeller Centre.

As much fun as they’re having, Angel’s Christmas wish is for something much bigger… to find her real dad. Hayley wants to fulfill her daughter’s wish, but it was a one-night stand a decade ago. All she knows is that his name is Michel. As she searches for Michel, Hayley crosses paths with billionaire Oliver Drummond and starts to wonder if her own Christmas dreams might also come true.

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Set in a fictional seaside town in Yorkshire, England, the Starfish Cafe offers stunning views, delicious food, and lifelong friendships. But it’s also a place of heartbreak. Hollie inherited the cafe after tragically losing her family. Jake has also had his share of heartache and vows not to let anyone get too close to him.

A chance encounter at the cafe, facilitated by a fluffy lost dog, brings Hollie and Jake together. Will they be able to open up to one another and the possibility of happiness once again, or will the walls they’ve put up keep them apart?

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Twenty-eight-year-old Holly Snow used to dream of being an international flight attendant. But she put those plans on hold four years ago when her sister and brother-in-law were killed so that she could become the guardian of her niece, Faith. Now, she works three jobs just to pay the rent and care for 4-year-old Faith.

When Holly’s friend mentions that her boss, Archibald, wants to pay someone to do his Christmas shopping for him, Faith jumps at the opportunity. Archie is a Scroogy investment banker who is too busy to deal with Christmas. The last thing he wants is for his new personal shopper, Holly, to send him constant texts asking for more info about the people on his shopping list.

And how can it be that Holly is developing feelings for this grumpy man on the other end of the text who has no Christmas spirit?

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Carolyn Brown is known for her novels set in small Texas towns amid wacky neighbors, and this is no exception. Finn is a former sniper who buys a ranch in Burnt Boot, Texas, hoping for some peace and quiet this Christmas. But he doesn’t even get one restful night before Callie appears in his driveway in an army SUV. He doesn’t want to return to the past, but he owes Callie his life, so is prepared to do whatever she needs. And she needs a hideout for her young nephew, who witnessed a murder and is now in danger.

Despite the new empty house, Callie and Finn have never felt more at home. And Callie has never been more attracted to Finn; he’s much better looking as a cowboy! Between exploring their budding romance, fighting off the single women attracted to Finn, and taking care of her nephew, Finn is also dealing with a feud between the other Burnt Boot ranchers.

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Tayde has long dreamed of becoming an investigative reporter. When she lands a job at a distinguished magazine, she thinks it’s her big break until her boss instead assigns her to an advice column.

When her first column unexpectedly goes viral thanks to a comment from a stranger, dubbed Mr. Bells, Tayde is humiliated in the process. Despite her best efforts to keep her head down and do her job without further embarrassment, Mr. Bells continues to comment.

With each letter she responds to, Tayde gains new perspective. Along the way, she’s also collecting more clues about Mr. Bells. Who is he, and why does he continually try to make her look like a villain?

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The night before Caitlin left Reindeer Falls, Tennessee, to attend Harvard University, Shane blindsided her with the news that he loved her. Nonetheless, she left and hasn’t looked back since. Eight years later, Caitlin returns home and is pleasantly surprised to find that Shane has become a pillar in the community. When it comes time to make the choice between rebuilding her life in Boston or staying in Reindeer Falls, Caitlin will have to think about it much harder than she did the first time around.

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A personal tragedy has Abby looking for a fresh start, so she packs up her home in San Fransisco and moves across the country to Holiday Bay, Maine, where she’s purchased an old seaside mansion sight unseen. Abby just wants some time alone to heal, but the giant Maine coon cat that’s been living in the house has no intention of leaving. Abby is not a cat person… or at least she doesn’t think she is.

Around the time that Abby arrives in Holiday Bay, a local girl is murdered. When Abby finds boxes in the basement of her new home that she thinks might provide clues about the killer, she finds herself caught in the middle of a complicated case. But Abby is up for the challenge – after all, she’s a NY Times bestselling mystery writer and the widow of a homicide detective, so she knows a thing or two about investigating.

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Fans of Amish fiction will enjoy this holiday trip to Lancaster County. The Christmas season isn’t enough to make Jaime and C.J. Fitzpatrick’s marriage work again. It’s only been four years since the wedding and dreams of a bright future together, but they’re close to calling it quits.

More than anything, Mattie Riehl wishes this would be the year she could gift her husband news of a baby on the way. However, she’s been disappointed once again and the holidays reinforce her fears that they’ll never have the big family they hoped for.

When a winter storm brings the Fitzpatricks into the Riehl’s home and slower pace of life, the two couples from different worlds learn from each other and rediscover the true meaning of love.

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Ever since she left her finace, Isaac, at the altar four years ago and ran away to the big city, Megan has avoided going back to her hometown for the holidays. This year she can’t get out of it and she dreading it more than ever because Isaac is engaged again, and she’s just been dumped for the fourth time this year.

Christian doesn’t mind being single, but he really hates that his family pities him for being alone at the holidays.

When Megan and Christian bump into each other at a Dublin pub, they hatch a fake dating plan to get them both through the holidays. They draw up on a contract on a wine stained napkin and agree to accompany each other’s family gatherings. What they don’t factor in is getting snowed-in at a cabin.

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Gwen is a doctor spending the month of December house sitting for her mother and stepfather. She leads a surgically precise life, so it’s a very unexpected plot tiwst when Hollywood heartthrob Caleb, on the run from the paparazzi, crash lands in her kitchen. He’s her stepdad’s nephew and feels like he has as much right to be there as she does.

One doctor. One movie star. One house. One month until Christmas.

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Wes and Penny are being used as pawns in their fathers’ corporate merger negotiations. Both families own Christmas businesses, and Penny’s dad decided to include in the contract that his daughter would marry Wes by Christmas of next year.

With that deadline now looming, it’s up to Penny and Wes to find their way out of this mess because neither of them wants to get married. But things get complicated when they both realize that they also don’t want to say goodbye.

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Ryan was grumpy BEFORE he got fired AND had to travel to his great-uncle’s hippy, happy, annoying town to help him with a mysterious emergency. When he arrives, he’s stuck with a tiny rental car and surrounded by decorations galore for the Winter Solstice celebration. He needs to save his uncle’s farm and then escape this crazy place.

The vet, Dr. Sammy Ames, is not helping him out at all. She doesn’t have time to take on his spare sheep because she’s running her own practice and dealing with a fundraising crisis. Plus, why would she help Ryan when he doesn’t even seem to remember being her first kiss? Although, drunk and pantless Ryan is pretty cute…

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Olivia is basically walking Christmas cheer, and she loves spreading it around for all to hear! So it’s a natural fit when she’s put in charge of the holiday festivities for Loveridge & McGowan. She creates an entire calendar of events for her co-workers, but the real challenge will be un-grinching the grinchiest man she’s ever met – her boss, Asher.

Asher only has one present on his Christmas wish list – making his ex-girlfriend jealous. Despite their love-hate relationship, Olivia is the one who can deliver that gift for him in the form of a fake relationship. Along the way, Olivia learns that Asher’s one weakness is his adorable 6-year-old niece, Chloe.

This is a Hallmark-worthy Christmas plot, but it also goes a bit deeper with a workplace misogyny storyline involving a celebrity client’s predatory behavior. Reviewers praise the way that this element is worked into the book.