Quick Reads

In the glow of twinkling lights and fresh-fallen snow, sometimes all it takes to change everything... is coming home. Harper Reed doesn’t do Christmas—not since ambition replaced sentiment and her Manhattan life left no room for mistletoe or memories. But when a call from her quirky Aunt Ellie drags her back to snowy Maple Glen to help run the family bookshop, Harper plans to be in and out by New Year’s.

Fergus MacFaddle was never meant to be the spirit of the season. Gruff, stubborn, and allergic to joy, he’s spent decades enforcing laws against smiling near livestock and renaming holidays out of spite. But when an old flame returns, a goat gains political power, and a small bonnet sparks village-wide chaos, even the Grump of Christmas must reconsider what it means to belong.

In a land scorched by sun and stained by secrets, one man walks a path below the reach of law, hope, or mercy. William Cash—once sheriff, now a ghost in his own story—emerges from the ashes of Johnson’s Corner to confront the evil that festers beneath the soil. But the devil wears many faces, and redemption runs as dry as the riverbeds. In the aftermath of fire and betrayal, a new darkness takes root. Children vanish, shadows whisper in the trees, and a woman with no past holds the key to an ancient curse.