10 Cozy Christmas Books Set in Colorado

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Would you enjoy all of the holiday decorations if they were up year round? That’s what it’s like living in Christmas town where the holiday cheer never disappears. And it leaves Cole wanting to hibernate away in his house like the Grinch in his cave.

When Cole’s nemesis Storee moves in next door to take care of her aunt, she turns his world upside down. She enters the town’s Christmas Kringle contest, and despite his attitude toward the holiday, there is no way Cole is going to let her win. Even if it means that he has to pretend that his heart has grown three sizes.

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There are only eight days until Christmas, and the Maple Falls Holiday Games will determine the selling price of the quaint mountain town’s failing Christmas shop. The Holiday Games are an annual tradition of eccentric strength and skill challenges.

The first competitor is Bella, an LA-based real estate developer who needs to score a great deal on the shop to secure a big promotion. Her rival in the Games is Jess, the shop owner’s stubborn grandson, who wants the highest price possible. As days pass by, Jess and Bella’s icy feelings for each other begin to thaw. But someone still has to win…

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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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Five years after a failed engagment with her first love, Brighton, Charlotte is enjoying life following her dream in New York with her string ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet. But, as the holidays approach, fellow ensemble member Sloan convinces the group to spend the holidays at her family’s home in Colorado so they can enjoy a more relaxed pace of life and practice for an upcoming tour.

However, thoughts of relaxation go out the window when Sloane’s sister Adele unknowingly brings her friend Brighton home for Christmas. While Sloane and Brighton pretend to be strangers, Sloane and Adele’s mom signs them all up for a series of Christmas dating events around town, from horseback riding to cookie making.

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Lilly is a single mom to two teenagers, a jewelry shop owner, and the local Chamber of Commerce president. She is as busy as ever this Christmas and definitely didn’t have time to find a dead body on the floor of her store.

On top of that, she has to deal with her deadbeat ex-husband and the declining mental health of her mother. When a second dead body appears, Lilly is now the prime suspect and hopes the local police can figure out what is really happening ASAP for any hope of a merry Christmas.

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Bettie was accustomed to her parents providing a life of luxury, including an endless supply of designer shoes. But when they stop funding her extravagant lifestyle, she does her best to keep up the luxe image on social media. No one, including her family, knows that she’s actually totally broke and squatting in Colorado. 

Christmas is looming, and Bettie accidentally plays a copy of “All I Want for Christmas is You” backward while she’s drunk. This mistake summons a man named Hall, who is Holiday Spirit in human form. Once she gets over the shock, she knows that Hall can make her wishes come true, including acting as her fiancé. Can her time with Hall help her channel the Christmas Spirit permanently, or is she doomed to be selfish again once the holidays have passed?

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Madison just spoiled a business deal that would have turned the quaint town of Christmas, Colorado, into a winter wonderland for tourists. The town’s citizens wanted the deal, and now they’re calling Madison “The Grinch Who Killed Christmas.” She was trying to protect the financial interests of her company, but now she’s caused them a PR nightmare.

The company sends her to Colorado to do publicity damage control, but instead, she keeps encountering one accident after another. And to top it all off, the woman she’s staying with, Nell, is determined to set her up with Nell’s handsome nephew, single father Sheriff Gage McBride.

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Editor Caroline Holt is experiencing burnout at work and is mourning the loss of her mother. She planned to spend the holidays at her late mother’s upstate cabin in Hudson, New York, but there she finds a letter in a small red envelope addressed to her mother. The return address reads, “Santa’s Little Red Mailbox, Aspen, Colorado.” Inside is a letter from a man declaring his love for her mother and promising to meet her in front of the little red mailbox on New Year’s Eve.

Caroline’s curiosity gets the better of her, and before she knows it she’s on a flight to Aspen hoping to meet her mother’s mysterious lover. In the meantime, she begins bumping into another man in town over and over. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him.

By the end of Christmas week, Caroline will find out the truth about the person her mother loved, as well as unravel secrets about her past and get a chance to write a new future for herself.