Silverbell Hollow

Holiday rule #2: Never offer your spare room to the man searching for your secret identity.

Avery Bloom is very good at disappearing in plain sight.

To Silverbell Hollow, she is the owner of the town’s cozy bookshop, The Winter Quill. To millions of readers, she is A. J. Blackwood, the reclusive mystery author no one has ever found.

And Avery intends to keep it that way.

Then workaholic film producer Julian Mercer arrives with his nephew, Benji, determined to secure the screen rights to Blackwood’s novels. Avery plans to mislead him until he leaves.

But when a snowstorm closes the mountain road and every room in town is taken, she makes one mistake: offering them her spare room.

Now the man hunting her secret is sleeping one wall away.

Between Christmas lights and holiday magic, Avery finds herself falling for the one man she needs to stay away from. It doesn’t help that the quick-tempered producer seems to save all his gentleness for her, or that every time he touches her, she forgets why she is supposed to keep her distance.

But he is still searching for A. J. Blackwood.

If Julian discovers her lie, Avery could lose him. If her identity gets out, she could lose the quiet life she has protected.

Avery never wanted the world to know her name.

She just never expected to want him to know.

A Merry Secret is a standalone small-town Christmas romance filled with secret identities, snowed-in forced proximity, a shy heroine, a hero who falls first, and plenty of cozy holiday charm. Expect a guaranteed happily ever after, and an open bedroom door.