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Hope for the Holidays by Barbara Winkes: two women beside presents on a red, snowflake-patterned cover.
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Hope for the Holidays

2026

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The story

Hope Landry has a crush on her boss, Sloane Winters, but sees little reason to think the feeling could ever be returned. Sloane’s distant manner makes her seem beyond reach, until circumstances leave her needing somewhere outside the city to spend Christmas. Hope offers an invitation into her family’s holiday celebrations, with a request attached: Sloane must help her keep a secret from the people at home. Away from their usual professional surroundings, the arrangement gives Hope a different kind of proximity to the woman she admires. This holiday romance follows an assistant and her guarded employer as an unexpected Christmas visit complicates the boundaries between their working and private lives.

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Book details

First published
2026
Publisher
Self-published
Available editions
Ebook
Image credits
  • Cover from Barbara Winkes’s official website · Source