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A Christmas for Carol
Paperback
Series: Hope Island Holiday Romances, Book 3
Publisher: Lightning Strike Press
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was sure she'd missed the boat on love. He's the sole survivor of a shipwrecked relationship. Will working together to save a beloved theater be enough to keep their heads above water?
Ex-bestselling romance writer Carol Springfield is a Scrooge, with good reason. Every terrible event in her life has happened around Christmas; the death of her parents, finding out about her ex-husband's affair, and the announcement of pregnancy after pregnancy from her ex's new wife.
Despite it all, she agrees to spend the holidays with her best friend in the weird island town she's just moved to; Hope Island, WA. But she's barely on the ferry when she finds herself on the receiving end of a glare from an annoyingly good-looking man.
In Patrick Dorsett's defense, he was in a rotten mood; the more he learned about his wife's death and the things she was hiding from him, the more it tortured him. Then to see this woman on the ferry, with the same strawberry blonde hair, and a face so familiar...it was like the universe was taunting him.
Thrown together due to their mutual love of community theater, they take on a greedy, humbug owner during the annual staging of A Christmas Carol. But when the ghosts of Christmases past catch up with them, their feelings end up in chains.
Can our grumpy heroes escape the past, embrace the present, and sail happily ever after into the future?
A Christmas for Carol is a small town second-chance holiday romantic comedy with a mature grumpy hero and heroine that will have you laughing out loud, tearing up, and always wanting more from this hilarious, island community.
This full novel contains profanity and is not a clean romance. It is a plot-focused, emotional slowburn HEA with realistic characters and no instalove. The MMC is a green flag / cinnamon roll hero. While part of the Hope Island Holiday Romance series, it can be read as a stand alone, and has no cliffhanger.
❤️If you love Penny Reid, Lucy Score, or Claire Kingsley join the wacky residents of Hope Island today and dive into this first book in the Hope Island Holiday Romances.❤️
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